조갑제

 

탄핵내란 사태를 통하여 우리는 알게 되었다. 종북좌익 세력을 척결하고 김정은 정권을 무너뜨려 자유통일함으로써 핵문제를 해결하고 북한동포를 해방하여 일류국가를 건설하는 데 방해가 되는 4대 수구반동 특권 세력이 있다는 것을.

 

첫째 거짓말의 산을 만들어 촛불시위를 선동하면서 탄핵사태를 주도한 쓰레기 언론!

 

둘째 면책특권을 무시하고 대통령을 뇌물죄 등으로 엮어 넣으려고 인권탄압하고 월권한 정치검찰(특검)!

 

셋째 졸속 표절 탄핵소추로 대통령을 유폐시킨 반역국회!

 

넷째 경제를 망치고 일자리를 앗아가는 귀족노조!

 

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한국이 생존하기 위해 싸워야 할 5적(敵)

 

2016-08-21

         

1. 정치인:

우파라 불리는 정치인은 권력과 돈을 추구하는 염치 없는

인간들이고, 좌파들은 철 지난 이념과 돈을 쫓는 괴물들이다. 그들의 안중에 나라와 시민은 없다.

 

2. 관료 집단: 쓰레기 지식과 상상력 결핍의 두뇌를 가진 영혼 없는 집단. 이들 역시 타성적으로 돈과 권력을 찾아가는 생각 없는 부나방들이다.

     

3. 종북 좌파: 역사와 인간에 대한 기본적인 이해가 부족한 덜 떨어진 인간들이고, 자기들만이 선을 행한다고 믿는 위선 덩어리들이다.

     

4. 노조: 떼법으로 헌법 위에 군림하고 있는 무법 집단이자, 기업과 소비자의 등에 빨대 꽂고 피를 빠는 흡혈귀들이다.

     

5. 언론 집단: 마르크스, 레닌, 스탈린, 모택동, 김일성 등의 생각을 세상에 퍼뜨리는 독버섯 집단.

 

      

그리고 이들의 선전선동에 좀비가 되어버리는 일부 국민들이 있다. 한국이 생존해 나아가려면 위의 5개 집단과 싸워야 하고, 그들을 이 땅에서 몰아내야만 다시 한번 부흥할 수 있다.

  본인의 책 <자유주의자의 독백>(위퍼블 출판, 판매)에서.  

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태양이 내려쬐는 뜨거운 사막을 해매는 낙타와 메마른 아스팔트를 배회하는 현대인들은 어딘가 닮은 데가 있다.  오아시스는 과연 어디에 있을까?

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직업은 단지 생산을 위한 수단일 뿐이고, 생산이 가장 중요한 목적이다.

고용이 중요한 이유는, 우리가 경제적 결핍에 처해 있으므로, 살아가고 번영하기 위해서는 노동을 해야 하기 때문이다.

대부분의 경우에 정부 프로그램은 실업의 원인이다.

실업 급여나 복지 등은 무노동에 정부가 보조금을 지불함으로써, 그것을 더욱 조장하게 된다.

정부가 특정 직업에 법적 지위를 부여하고 경쟁자들을 제한하는 법을 통과시키면, 실업이 발생한다.

미국의 중앙은행인 연준은 화폐를 창출함으로써 실업을 유발한다. 인플레는 가격을 상승시킬 뿐만 아니라, 노동의 배분에 오류를 가져오게 한다.

 

How the Market Creates Jobs and How the Government Destroys Them

 

•Walter Block

 

 

The Creation of Jobs

 

If the media tell us that "the opening of XYZ mill has created 1,000 new jobs," we give a cheer. When the ABC company closes and 500 jobs are lost, we're sad. The politician who can provide a subsidy to save ABC is almost assured of wide spread public support for his work in preserving jobs.

 

But jobs in and of themselves do not guarantee well- being. Suppose that the employment is to dig huge holes and fill them up again? What if the workers manufacture goods and services that no one wants to purchase? In the Soviet Union, which boasts of giving every worker a job, many jobs are just this unproductive. Production is everything, and jobs are nothing but a means toward that end.

 

Imagine the Swiss Family Robinson marooned on a deserted South Sea island. Do they need jobs? No, they need food, clothing, shelter, and protection from wild animals. Every job created is a deduction from the limited, precious labor available. Work must be rationed, not created, so that the market can create the most product possible out of the limited supply of labor, capital goods, and natural resources.

 

The same is true for our society. The supply of labor is limited. We must not allow government to create jobs or we lose the goods and services which otherwise would have come into being. We must reserve precious labor for the important tasks still left undone.

 

Alternatively, imagine a world where radios, pizzas, jogging shoes, and everything else we might want continuously rained down like manna from heaven. Would we want jobs in such a utopia? No, we could devote ourselves to other tasks - studying, basking in the sun, etc. - that we would undertake for their intrinsic pleasure.

 

Instead of praising jobs for their own sake, we should ask why employment is so important. The answer is, because we exist amidst economic scarcity and must work to live and prosper. That's why we should be of good cheer only when we learn that this employment will produce things people actually value, i.e., are willing to buy with their own hard-earned money. And this is something that can only be done in the free market, not by bureaucrats and politicians.

 

The Destruction of Jobs

 

But what about unemployment? What if people want to work, but can't get a job? In almost every case, government programs are the cause of joblessness.

 

Minimum Wage. The minimum wage mandates that wages be set at a government-determined level. To explain why this is harmful, we can use an analogy from biology: there are certain animals that are weak compared to others. For example, the porcupine is defenseless except for its quills, the deer vulnerable except for its speed.

 

In economics there are also people who are relatively weak. The disabled, the young, the untrained—all are weak economic actors. But like the weak animals in biology, they have a compensating advantage: the ability to work for lower wages. When the government takes this ability away from them by forcing up pay scales, it is as if the porcupine were shorn of its quills. The result is unemployment, which creates desperate loneliness, isolation, and dependency.

 

Consider a young, uneducated, unskilled person, whose productivity is $2.50 an hour in the marketplace. What if the legislature passes a law requiring that he be paid $5 per hour? The employer hiring him would lose $2.50 an hour.

 

Consider a man and a woman each with a productivity of $10 per hour, and suppose, because of discrimination or whatever, that the man is paid $ 10 per hour and the woman is paid $8 per hour. It is as if the woman had a little sign on her forehead saying, "Hire me and earn an extra $2 an hour."

 

This makes her a desirable employee even for a sexist boss. But when an equal-pay law stipulates that she must be paid the same as the man, the employer can indulge his discriminatory tendencies and not hire her at all, at no cost to himself.

 

Comparable Worth. What if government gets the bright idea that nurses and truck drivers ought to be paid the same wage because their occupations are of "intrinsically" equal value? It orders that nurses' wages be raised to the same level, which creates unemployment for women.

 

Working Conditions. Laws which force employers to provide certain types of working conditions also create unemployment. For example, migrant fruit and vegetables pickers must have hot and cold running water and modern toilets in the temporary cabins provided for them. This is economically equivalent to wage laws because, from the point of view of the employer, working conditions are almost indistinguishable from money wages. And if the government forces him to pay more, he will have to hire fewer people.

 

Unions. When the government forces businesses to hire only union workers, it discriminates against non-union workers, causing them to be at a severe disadvantage or permanently unemployed. Unions exist primarily to keep out competition. They are a state-protected cartel like any other.

 

Employment Protection. Employment protection laws, which mandate that no one can be fired without due process, are supposed to protect employees. However, if the government tells the employer that he must keep the employee no matter what, he will tend not to hire him in the first place. This law, which appears to help workers, instead keeps them from employment. And so do employment taxes and payroll taxes, which increase costs to businesses and discourage them from hiring more workers.

 

Payroll Taxes. Payroll taxes like Social Security impose heavy monetary and administrative costs on businesses, drastically increasing the marginal cost of hiring new employees.

 

Unemployment Insurance. Government unemployment insurance and welfare cause unemployment by subsidizing idleness. When a certain behavior is subsidized—in this case not working—we get more of it.

 

Licensing. Regulations and licensing also cause unemployment. Most people know that doctors and lawyers must have licenses. But few know that ferret breeders, falconers, and strawberry growers must also have them. In fact, government regulates over 1,000 occupations in all 50 states. A woman in Florida who ran a soup kitchen for the poor out of her home was recently shut down as an unlicensed restaurant, and many poor people now go hungry as a result.

 

When the government passes a law saying certain jobs cannot be undertaken without a license, it erects a legal barrier to entry. Why should it be illegal for anyone to try their hand at haircutting? The market will supply all the information consumers need.

 

When the government bestows legal status on a profession and passes a law against competitors, it creates unemployment. For example, who lobbies for the laws which prevent just anyone from giving a haircut? The haircutting industry—not to protect the consumer from bad haircuts, but to protect themselves against competition.

 

Peddling. Laws against street peddlers prevent people from selling food and products to people who want them. In cities like New York and Washington, D.C., the most vociferous supporters of anti-peddling laws are established restaurants and department stores.

 

Child Labor. There are many jobs that require little training—such as mowing lawns—which are perfect for young people who want to earn some money. In addition to the earnings, working also teaches young people what a job is, how to handle money, and how to save and maybe even invest. But in most places, the government discriminates against teenagers and prevents them from participating in the free enterprise system. Kids can't even have a street-corner lemonade stand.

 

The Federal Reserve. By bringing about the business cycle, Federal Reserve money creation causes unemployment. Inflation not only raises prices, it also misallocates labor. During the boom phase of the trade cycle, businesses hire new workers, many of whom are pulled from other lines of work by the higher wages. The Fed subsidy to these capital industries lasts only until the bust. Workers are then laid off and displaced.

 

The Free Market. The free market, of course, does not mean Utopia. We live in a world of differing intelligence and skills, of changing market preferences, and of imperfect information, which can lead to temporary, market-generated unemployment, which Mises called "catallactic." And some people choose unemployment by holding out for a higher paying job.

 

But as a society, we can insure that everyone who wants to work has a chance to do so by repealing minimum wage law, comparable worth rules, working condition laws, compulsory union membership, employment protection, employment taxes, payroll taxes, government unemployment insurance, welfare, regulations, licensing, anti-peddling laws, child-labor laws, and government money creation.

 

The path to jobs that matter is the free market.

 

Originally published in The Free Market 6, no. 5 (May 1988)

 

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투기꾼들은 왜 중요한가?

 

Dwight Schrute Shows Us Why Speculators Are So Important

 

•Christian Newman

 

 

What gives the speculator its name is the fact that he or she “speculates” that a certain commodity, good, or service, will be worth more or less in the future than it is now. Just like merchants and producers take goods from far flung places where they are least valuable, where there is an abundance, combine them into a finished product or move them to an area where those goods are scarcer, speculators perform this economic function on the time scale. Just like there is an arbitrage profit to be made moving goods from one area where they are abundant and into another where they’re more dearly needed, so do speculators take abundant goods in the present and make sure they’re available when times are scarce, with the expectation of profit, of course.

 

The “speculator” brings to mind a devious, villainous, slimeball of a person, like Dwight Schrute, in the minds of many who haven’t studied economics and are looking for someone to pin market-wide woes on. However, it must be remembered that Dwight as a speculator performs three vital and important functions in his speculation for higher profit: One, that prices adjust sharply and as quickly as possible to reflect the real values of the marketplace so that further mistakes can be avoided; two, that goods are transported from times of abundance when the tendency to consume frivolously is higher to times when those goods are scarcer and needed for more highly valued functions; and three, bearing risk. The speculator is an economic hero. It is through their insatiable desire for a quick buck that they actually act as a stabilizing force in the economy. Should prices not reflect the real values on the market and surpluses or shortages appear on the horizon, the speculator is always ready to swoop in and align supply with demand. This is a vital action that alerts the rest of the economy through price signals to changes it needs to be aware to. So here’s to Dwight: schizophrenic, spectacled, socially awkward, and speculative hero of The Office. (발췌)

 

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"People bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones." -- @nntaleb

 

복잡한 해결 방식을 찾기 위해 배양되고, 선택되고, 보상 받은 사람들에게는 단순한 해결 방식을 실행할 인센티브가 없다. --탈레브

 

현재의 인문, 사회, 자연 과학의 가장 큰 병폐를 지적한 발언이다.

 

그 대표적인 예는 내가 나의 책 <서구의학은 파산했다>(위퍼블 출판, 판매)에서 주장했듯이, 한약 몇 첩으로(또는 침구 몇 번으로) 고칠 수 있는 병을 수 백, 수 천 만원을 들여 수술을 하거나, 거금을 들여 수(십)억원 짜리 기계로 진단을 하고 약을 먹는 것이다.

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