I have a fair bit of fare for you today - biometric ID cards, Labour Day, and the CONgress theory of GUNvernment - so let's begin with the ID card. Yesterday, I had rubbished the very idea itself, as based on the Welfare Principle. I had omitted mentioning anything that might be "Orwellian" in the idea. Well, today there is an excellent column in the Express on the very Orwellian possibilities behind the biometric ID card project. That is, the idea is being promoted as welfarism, but actually smacks of totalitarianism. Nandan Nilekani may well be an agent of the Police State, with Chacha as his sponsor. Oppose the evil idea of biometric ID cards tooth-and-nail.
On now to Labour Day. Independent India was conceived of as a workers' paradise, but even today masses are poor, and many are in armed rebellion against it. What went wrong? Obviously, socialism and trade unionism are NOT in the interests of the working classes.
Do not forget that all workers are consumers - while labour, strictly speaking, is a "disutility." We work in order to spend our wages on satisfying our needs. Thus free trade and free competition are in the workers' interests - and this was the clear understanding among the working people in Cobden's time, when the English working people unitedly rose in opposition to protectionism and mercantilistic privileges. Sadly, 50 years later, they succumbed to the lures of socialism and trade unionism. And see what great disaster has befallen them. There ain't no cure but classical liberalism.
The unhampered free market - or Capitalism - is the BEST for ALL workers. Trade unions are a privileged elite. They are also allowed to use force legally. This goes against the Principle of Justice. Nobel Laureate F.A. Hayek once said, "We have now reached a state where [unions] have become uniquely privileged institutions to which the general rules of law do not apply." Students are also recommended the works of the late Professor WH Hutt, a staunch classical liberal, who clearly saw through the evil of unionism.
Not just Britain or India, the USSA too has got fucked by trade unionism. Detroit is a dead city today. LRC has a great column on trade unionism in the USSA by Tom Woods that is truly worth reading. It shows that India must break free from this great error in our social system - that too, in the true interests of poor workers. I hate trade unions in the West for another reason: they are the biggest supporters of immigration control. If you want a free, competitive world for all workers, you must oppose unionism.
Finally, there is this NYT story titled "India's ruling party's biggest challenge remains governing" that I found worthy of note. Hah! Governing? What does Chacha know about that? Their entire theory of the Total State is based on force, force and more force - and always the misuse of force. The biometric ID card, the trade union, the State Police, the Income Tax "raid," and so on and so forth, right down to the bloody excise bastards. This is a theory of GUNvernment, not government. It is good that people are finally rebelling. More power to the rebels.
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