14.6 - Licenses/Permits/Regulation
"A permit from government to be free? It would be unconstitutional." - Unknown
Narrative: Government permits and licenses are necessary to protect the public.
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a. Licensing
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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair.
The system we live in is rigged against you. You’ve always known this. Experts are paid hefty salaries to push narratives. They tell you things you can’t observe yourself, and you're expected to believe them. If you don't, then you're ridiculed. Continued disbelief makes you an outcast.
Many occupations need a license or obtain the bulk of their funding from the powers that be. When earning your livelihood depends on being in the good graces of someone else, you must align with their point of view. That makes it easy to keep the experts on point with the latest narrative. Supporters are rewarded with promotions, book deals, and lucrative contracts. Opponents are punished by having their funding pulled, licenses revoked, and jobs terminated.
"The massive proliferation of “professional” licensing destroys capital and enterprise. License to give a massage. License to handle a plate of food. Government permit to put a window in your house, or cut down a tree- your own tree in your own yard! But the horrid truth is that much of this comes at the state and local level- even CCRs are rules, refs, fines, micro-managing. I have concluded that Smericans love rules and conformity more than freedom, and I largely blame public education, which is mostly indoctrinating children to learn, obey, and collectively enforce rules in ever classroom, every day." - Unknown
"Like the elite professions of doctors and lawyers the 'more professional' the expert the less their profession achieves. The:
- more doctors, the less the health
- more psychologists, the less the sanity of their madmen
- more genders, the less the birthrate
- more auditors, the less the corporate veracity
- more lawyers, the less the equity
- more politicians, the less the human freedom
- more policemen, the less the safety
- more soldiers, the less the peace" - Unknown, on the proliferation of licensing and the lack of progress
It’s like the movie 300 when the potter or the carpenter calls himself a soldier just because he carries a sword.
“Since its rule is exploitative and parasitic, the State must purchase the alliance of a group of ‘Court Intellectuals,’ whose task is to bamboozle the public into accepting and celebrating the rule of its particular State. In exchange for their continuing work of apologetics and bamboozlement, the Court Intellectuals win their place as junior partners in the power, prestige, and loot extracted by the State apparatus from the deluded public.” - Murray Rothbard
"To be clear… the experts weren’t wrong. They lied. There’s a big difference!" - Unknown
b. Permits
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"If you go buy some 2x4's and concrete you need to get permission to build a house. If you somehow get permission and build shelter for you and your family you will then pay tax on that house the rest of your life. If that isn't slavery I don't know what is..." - SouthernPrepper1
c. Regulation
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"The CIA works for military contractors, providing a steady pipeline of forever wars. The health agencies are controlled by the pharmaceutical industry, which profits from chronic disease. The Fed, held captive by big banks, floods the canyons of Wall Street with money. The agencies that are supposed to be stewards of American security, prosperity, and health are no longer working on behalf of you and me. They’ve become sock puppets for the industries they are supposed to regulate." - RFK Jr