Reading: Outline of Sanity

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last posted April 23, 2014, 1:38 a.m.

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Contrast between emphases on Private Property vs. Private Enterprise. Property is a more noble value than Enterprise; and a society which lionizes property will have better social outcomes than one which lionizes enterprise.

“A pickpocket is obviously a champion of private enterprise. But it would perhaps be an exaggeration to say that a pickpocket is a champion of private property. The point about Capitalism and Commercialism, as conducted of late, is that they have really preached the extension of business rather than the preservation of belongings; and have at best tried to disguise the pickpocket with some of the virtues of the pirate…Pockets and possessions generally seem to me to have not only a more normal but a more dignified defence than the rather dirty individualism that talks about private enterprise.”

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