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trích dẫn hôm nay… is from page 33 of Deirdre McCloskey’s and Art Carden’s new (2020) book, Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World (original emphasis; footnote deleted; link added):

Giving people what they want, and are in justice willing to pay for when they can, is a good system. “Economics,” writes Jeffrey Tucker, “is not just about making money. It’s also about a chance to be valuable to others, to yourself.” By contrast, giving people what the critics of “capitalism” think they should want, or that people do want but want to get magically (kỳ diệu, thần diệu) free of sacrifice of their own efforts (ko phải hy sinh, nỗ lực) for other people, burdening another person for their own gain, is a hideously (gớm ghiếc, đáng tởm) selfish (ích kỷ) society.

DBx: Yes. A trillion-and-two times yes.

All schemes of protectionism (bảo hộ) enable some people to leech (con đỉa; bóc lột, hút máu) off of their fellow citizens. Protectionism, in order to artificially (giả tạo, nhân tạo) enrich the few, denies to the many the right to spend their incomes as they choose. By artificially narrowing buyers’ options, protectionism relieves the protected of the obligation to make themselves as useful as possible to others.

This reality is true for run-of-the-(steel)-mill protectionism as well as for more ‘comprehensive’ versions hawked as “industrial policy.”

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