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      "body": "https://www.postindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Teacher_Protests_00333-b8439-1.jpg\n\nTeachers in Denver, Colorado have recently taken to the streets of the state Capitol to call for increased pay, i.e., for a greater mulcting of the taxpayer. They are supposedly “underpaid,” and the greedy taxpayers, darnit for wanting to keep more of their own money, need to cough up more dough for the wonderful public good of education. 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From the start then we would have to question if the person being forced to pay believes they’re “underpaid.” \n\nSo who are they to say “schools need more funding?” It’s not their money, for one, but how could they know? How could anyone know better than the parents or those who had their money stolen? It would seem that the teachers are grasping for a vague idea of what it is they should be getting paid. How do they calculate what it should be?\n\nIn the market economy, we can only conclude that the just price and wage are the market price and the market wage. This would be the prices and wages determined by voluntary transactions. In other words, teachers would be paid what they’re worth in the market economy. But they probably wouldn't like this, as many things help to prop-up the teacher’s position under the system of government: the teacher’s unions, pensions, the licensure required to get in that keeps others out, etc. \n\nThus, in a free market, whatever it is teachers are paid, on average or however it would be measured, is the just wage (moral and economic). Wages arise in a bidding process just like all other prices, and they would be bid up to their worth in a free market. If more teachers were needed, wages would rise; if there were too many teachers, wages would fall, and they would seek other lines of work. There’s sort of a contradiction with the claim that “we need more teachers” and “we’re underpaid.” \n\nIt would be as arbitrary as to say “gasoline should sell for no more than $1.00 per gallon” as to say “teacher should be paid $X an hour.” This is why those who advocate for a “minimum wage” law must decide upon some completely arbitrary number, usually one that sounds nice and round: “$15 an hour.” \n\nConsumers might all wish everything sold for the price of “free,” and producers to markup everything 10,000% of their costs, but through the market process we’re able to end with a mutually beneficial and agreeable price. A 10 pound bag of potatoes comes to be $5, or whatever, because that’s what its price is as competitive processes continue to play out in the economy. If it’s true wages are higher elsewhere, then why wouldn’t teachers go accept a job in those fields? Their whole pitch seems to be that (1) teaching is very important; (2) the public doesn’t care and doesn’t fund it enough, but I insist on remaining a teacher; therefore (3) the government has an indispensable role to play in forcing people to pay us more money because we said so. Not very convincing.  \n\nIf anything, they’re inherently overpaid, because they never had a right to be paid in taxpayer money in the first place, and their wages aren’t determined by markets. If it’s true teachers offer a valuable, indispensable service, and I am not saying that they do not, then surely they would thrive in a market economy, and everyone would continue to pay teachers to educate their children. But the pay issue seems to treat them as if every teacher is the same. Should all teachers, or based around some criteria, be paid $X?\n\nIn short, it’s useless to argue statistics or averages or even real numbers at all when it comes to the issue of teacher’s pay. The service of schooling and teaching should be turned over to the market economy to decide. And it is a logical matter, of people being forced to fund schools, which can show that if they valued there money being put into schooling they wouldn’t need to be coerced via taxation. That they are is really proof that they would have valued its use in another way. \n\nWhen people want to protect (politically fix the pensions and the wages) production stages of the economy (teacher’s producing education), forgetting about the most important consumers (the parents, the children), you know it’s never about the kids and all about them. The kids are another poker chip for padding teacher’s income. Apparently, what it is they’re after is a wage that is higher than what the market wage for teaching might be, as the only way to do this is petition the government for artificially higher wages. \n\n**No freedom**\n\nSince there is no free-market, there is no way to say what teachers “should be” paid. All we can say is that the market, rather than bureaucrats, should decide. But one might intuitively look at the salaries of some superintendents who have only a few thousand children under them, and see that their quarter-million dollar annual incomes are quite large for such a cozy position. \n\nThe point is that one is not free to halt payment to public schools and demonstrate that they indeed don’t value it whatever; and one is not free to reward exceptional teachers and schools with greater pay because they truly value what their children get from it. Whatever their wages are have become a political issue, rather than the result of liberty. \n\nDisconnecting payment from receiving the service makes for an awkward arrangement to say the least. People are most familiar and comfortable with market transactions: you pay for the good, and receive it immediately. Taxing someone and forcibly providing them with schooling removes the parties who matter from the relationship. \n\nHow can the government even know where to allocate its stolen money? If teachers are underfunded, then surely the government is overfunding — and wasting money on — something else. But again, this can only be decided in the market. With government, something funded will always come at the expense of something not being funded, because consumers are no longer choosing for themselves. There’s all the reason to call them overpaid, since anything the government funds is of a lesser value than those consumers would have chosen were they free to pay on their own. \n\n**Are teachers special?**\n\nEducation and technological advancement is obviously important for any growing and thriving civilization, but teachers, as a profession, are not anymore important than anyone else, such as the parents, where education really starts. Looking solely at those who teach is in a way to downplay the ability to learn via other means, such as on your own. The call for more pay implies that children are incapable of learning on their own. As if parents cannot teach reading and writing, or that kids aren’t inherently imaginative and adventurous with new ideas. \n\nWe might look to other unsung heroes such as plumbers, but unions have helped to overly romanticize these jobs too. But teachers are just another case of over-elevating the importance of a particular job (say, vs. farmers) because humans like to fetishize any good or service once it becomes a “public good” provided by the government. See: police officers, firefighters, etc. While all these things are needed, they aren’t “special.” Not in that they couldn’t be provided by markets, or that they are more needed or more essential than anything else to the point of glorification. The division of labor helps to combine our unique talents and pool them in the market to where all can benefit. However, this is lost on public schoolers who want to make everyone into the same kid. \n\n**Defund and privatize**\n\nIt is true, as I concede, that what the state monopolizes are “essential” goods and services. It’s just that this is the case against it being controlled by the state, and not the case that the people must surrender these goods and services to a monopolist. 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The bad kids will be free to leave and not weigh down the good kids who actually desire to learn. Those like me, who it pained to attend school against my will, can go pursue other things they’re more cut out for than the rigors of state-imposed curricula. We’re not all scholars; someone needs to pick up the curbside trash, drive the trucks, etc. \n\nPerhaps more importantly, in this way bad teachers who have nothing to offer will fail as teachers, and good teachers will be rewarded and remain teaching. Parents can place their children in schools that they feel are best suited to their children, and they won’t be forced to put there kid in any school, nor one relating only to their assigned district.  \n\nThe present system has sapped the freedom and the spirit to learn from the children, who it is alleged are cared about so much by being for the state-provided good. 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Of course, \"Antifa\" finds an alliance in democratic socialists (softcore communists) and Marxists more so than the libertarians they dox and consider equally their enemy, when libertarianism is poles apart from fascism despite what the liberty-adverse think. \n\nIn fact, though i'd contest the idea of \"state capitalism\", i'd contend it's democratic socialists who are essentially the \"crony capitalists\" they hate, having given corporatists the political means of monopolization and cartelization they have achieved today under the belief that it was to protect the people. \n\nThis is because Antifa are unprincipled, politically correct communists (or, anti-capitalists) on a \"social justice\" (whatever that means) crusade, who are \"antifascists\" only insofar as nationalist socialism presents a challenger to international socialism (Communism), which offends them. The old war between left- and right-socialists conveniently leaves the libertarians out of the equation. \n\n\"Fascism\", for them, has simply become a word to hurl around to silence speech. Labels are used as a substitute for discourse, so that they don't have to argue their ideas. They simply shout \"Nazi!\" and that's apparently sufficient. The Leftist goal is to censor anyone who has ideas outside of their own. \n\nThey wish to be seen as the sole virtuous people out there whom everyone should look to for ideas. Who would want to consider themselves a fascist, right? Remember, \"if you oppose Antifa, which means antifascist, you're literally a fascist!\" As if not supporting *Antifa*, a specific organization, means one endorses fascism. \n\nAntifa equates \"racism\" (which doesn't necessitate violence) with \"fascism\" more so than opposing the state. More than you'll ever hear them speak out against the state (where were they under Obama?), leftist anarchists, if we can ever call them anarchists, despise the ideas of liberty as conceived of by libertarians. They're first and foremost anti-capitalists, in which they believe the present system is capitalism. That, or they fail to make any distinction from free-market capitalism and the crony statism we have today. \n\nThe idea of property rights and exclusion totally offends them. The way I see it, so long as a \"white nationalist\" isn't a statist that wishes to forcibly eradicate other races, and genuinely wishes to achieve a homogeneous community that doesn't admit entry to non-whites, then this is compatible with libertarianism. But, as Leftists rallying cry is inclusion, the idea of *exclusion* horrifies them. \n\nAs ones who believe in positive rights, the idea that rights are to have things *not* be done to you (negative rights) rather than an obligation to do things for other people, are considered bad. It would seem everything *but* aggression is a aggression to these types, or a \"micro-aggression\" as they like to call it. \n\nWhile I never saw any interest in white nationalism or learning where they're coming from, it would seem to me that \"white pride\" is much more of a negative concept than their communist fantasies of expropriating private business owners. The libertarian is much more concerned with a just and moral use of violence than in someone's character (a guy who doesn't like blacks). \n\nIf violence is the measure, then Antifa is certainly more fascist than libertarians, and probably even most of the people who might consider themselves \"white nationalists\", but whom Antifa considers Nazis.  Indeed, replace the word \"white\" coming from the political-left (publications, their own words) with \"Jew\" and they'd quickly be exposed as the racists-fascists they pretend to oppose.  \n\nIf they weren't so silly, or, if they weren't just communists, they might find a real anti-state ally in anarcho-capitalists. But no less they have shunned us and conveniently grouped us in with the so-called \"alt-right\", which seems to me to have arose as a reaction to the onslaught of leftist political correctness that brands them with unsavory titles. If any libertarians thought they could have an alliance with these radical leftists, they're wrong. They want nothing to do with us. \n\nThey're ultimately for arbitrary violence, which surely puts them closer on the scale to being a fascist than adherents of the non-aggression principle who advocate all human interactions be voluntary.",
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They repeat these things they hear whether or not they have thought through the implications of such a measure to any extent. \n\nBut in addition to them, there is the political candidates that they look up to; the people they follow for advice; the people who tell them how to think and what they should support. These people make up the likes of Bernie Sanders, or Donald Trump; whoever, really. \n\nBut what they're doing is pretending to be economists, or, really, attempting to avoid economics all together and have their statements accepted as facts because they asserted them. They know, deep down, that they're not economists. They're just politicians who must nonetheless claim to know something about how the world works, else, who would trust them?\n\nOn the other hand, they do invoke \"economists\" to support their claims. And masquerading as “scientific” economists, they feel special enough to make such claims that are outside their realm. They use their acclaim and prestige to step outside the scope of economics to give weight to their policy prescriptions, which, if defended logically, could not be held. They make pronouncements without having, or even feeling a need, to support them morally. Due to their stature, however, they're listened to. The politicians need these types; their \"economic team.\"  \n\nSince economic logic is value-free, though, it's curious they never present or defend, even if incoherently, a system of ethics once they step outside of economics proper—what should be limited to the value-free implications of the formal fact that humans act toward ends they value using scarce means to reach them. They’re of course relativists anyway, and started at no axiomatic beginnings to arrive at their proposals. But nonetheless, they wish to make people believe that what they're saying is grounded in sound economic principles. \n\nTo prop-up their emotional economic claims, unsupported by logic, they [politicians] invoke these supposed “economists” to give sophistication to their ideas. These are your frauds like Paul Krugman (who Bernie Sanders looks to), who, acting as economists, make value statements about what government policies should be adopted, supposedly based in economic science. \n\nThey state these things matter of factly, too. You're not supposed to question whether their means—*the State*— of doing it is inherently aggressive or not; just accept the policy prescription, stupid. What do you know, mere mortal?  \n\nBesides, when you do ask them for something resembling an ethical principle, they just blurt further absurdities, even though doing this (acting as the scientific economist) is implicitly accepting objective ethics. They prey on, and preach to, the lay public who has no interest in economic logic; and they successfully dupe them into their schemes, often in the name of “science.” \n\nWe’re supposed to listen and turn to the talking heads at central banks and think tanks, who believe compiling data and statistics is what shapes the study of economics, for our knowledge of economic phenomena. \n\nTheir ideas are political motivated, not backed by economic do-gooding, which would of course be *freedom.* They hope to achieve a policy, and present it as founded in economics. Keynes, for instance, I believe, was nothing but a fraud to expand the State, providing the economic excuses and cover for doing it. Leave it to the experts, right? We’re too dumb. Only the central planners know what’s best for us!  \n\nYou see, they must have *some* intellectual support to do so. Otherwise the people might call bullshit. \"Where are your facts?,\" they might ask. It is not who is the most honest, but may the most convincing rhetoric-empowered demagogue emerge victorious from the political show. \n\nPolitics requires one be disingenuous. \n\nPeople like Bernie Sanders really only look to appeal to the masses to support their economic claims, e.g., “most voters agree that we should raise the minimum wage.” They don’t care if what they’re preaching makes any sense; they think that *consensus* (the appeal to authority or the majority) means their claims are scientific. \n\nYou don’t get to have an “opinion” on such matters, however. It is not like country music, where you say \"it sucks\", and others are free to disagree. It doesn’t matter if *everyone* “thinks” that “we” “should” inflate the money supply to grow the economy; they’d still be wrong. And if ninety-percent of the population thought we should murder Mexicans, it doesn't make it morally right. 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