{"id":27730,"date":"2014-09-09T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T04:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=27730"},"modified":"2018-09-18T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T19:39:07","slug":"qotd-the-iron-law-of-redistributionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/09\/09\/qotd-the-iron-law-of-redistributionism\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Iron Law of Redistributionism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[P]olicies intended to &#8220;help&#8221; the poor are invariably hijacked by a rentier class that fattens on the rising diversion of income. Result: help never arrives, much wealth is destroyed, growth is strangled, and the poor get poorer.<\/p>\n<p>Eric S. Raymond, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/108967323530519754654\/posts\/RuHZCwKkFUf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Google+<\/em><\/a>, 2014-09-06.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[P]olicies intended to &#8220;help&#8221; the poor are invariably hijacked by a rentier class that fattens on the rising diversion of income. Result: help never arrives, much wealth is destroyed, growth is strangled, and the poor get poorer. Eric S. Raymond, Google+, 2014-09-06.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,25,53,41],"tags":[1235,91,848],"class_list":["post-27730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-economics","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-esr","tag-poverty","tag-rentseeking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7dg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27731,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27730\/revisions\/27731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}