When Authoritarians Dominate: Things Have To Be Done Twice

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For thousands of years, society’s standard of living and longevity have advanced based upon a built-in drive to improve one’s condition. That’s for food and shelter and the improvements have been understood as well as enjoyed. And most advance themselves by providing goods and services that the market wants at an affordable price. Opposing this has been authoritarian movements by control freaks who are compelled to intrude upon other peoples’ lives. At a lesser level are union leaders and their rank and file who with strikes advance themselves by denying goods and services. Small but always disruptive. But the iniquities become huge when governments become authoritarian and are driven to control every aspect of everyone’s life. Which means disrupting the voluntary and natural way of market forces providing what is wanted to impose what may not be wanted. Such dictates may not be practical nor popular, requiring ruthless political enforcement.