Slicinhammer

As a young socialist, Hayek read Ludwig von Mises’ 1920 paper “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth.” Mises showed that socialist central planning isn’t merely inefficient, it’s impossible. Without private property and genuine market prices, planners lack any rational way to allocate scarce resources or determine real costs and needs. Even Oskar Lange, a leading socialist in the calculation debate, effectively conceded the point. While he promoted “market socialism” with trial-and-error pricing by a central board, real-world socialist planners in Eastern Europe quietly relied on world capitalist market prices as a guide. Without external free-market price signals, pure socialism would be economically blind and coordination would collapse. Mises went further, arguing that interventionism, the “middle way” of government meddling, is inherently unstable. Each intervention creates problems that invite more interventions, eventually leading to full socialization. Price controls cause shortages, subsidies distort production, and the cycle continues until the economy is fully planned. The lesson is clear. Rational economics requires genuine market prices emerging from voluntary exchange and private property. Half-measures don’t stabilize the system. They accelerate the drift into central planning. The Austrian School understood this decades before the collapse of the Soviet bloc proved it in practice.

Andrew Jackson had a 1400 pound block of cheese he left to age in the Whitehouse lobby for two years, and then when he left office he invited thousands of citizens to come and have a cheese eating party wherein the entire block was consumed in about two hours.

Infantry training. They already have the “if you move it just makes it feel worse” mindset down.

I live in the Palisades, where Spencer Pratt would have his highest level of support. Since I shared that I’m not voting for him, many of my neighbors (including community leaders) said they aren’t either. LA ain’t electing this 🤡. His support is mostly from outsiders. GTFOH.

BREAKING: Nithya Raman has a 6% chance to win the Los Angeles Mayor election, down from 54% 1 month ago