By treating the poor as if they are not choosing their diets in any meaningful sense, people license themselves to start making choices for the poor. John doesn’t realise that his hamburger is killing him, so I’ll just take it away and give him a nice sliced turkey sandwich and an apple and if Johnny is very, very good Mommy will take him to the zoo later. I’ve never understood how the belief that a large swathe of our society is in need of a nanny is reconciled, ideologically speaking, with the belief that we should do everything we can to encourage those people to vote.
Jane Galt, “Suddenly, and for no apparent reason …”, Asymmetrical Information, 2005-05-16.
She sure changed her tune over the last 16 years, didn’t she?
Comment by Kevin Trainor Jr. — November 8, 2021 @ 02:24
I think she was much more confident under her old pseudonym and — while never particularly doctrinaire — she had and expressed strong libertarian themes even if she wouldn’t have identified herself as a “libertarian”. Writing under her own name, she seemed to move more toward “left-libertarianism” and when she joined the Washington Post, she went native. I haven’t read much from her since then, as it’s usually paywalled.
Comment by Nicholas — November 8, 2021 @ 09:25