{"id":661,"date":"2008-09-22T18:25:04","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T23:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=661"},"modified":"2008-09-22T18:25:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T23:25:06","slug":"capitalists-capitalism-and-the-sirens-song-of-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2008\/09\/capitalists-capitalism-and-the-sirens-song-of-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalists, Capitalism, and the Siren&#8217;s Song of Stability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/austrianeconomists.typepad.com\/weblog\/2008\/09\/capitalists-cap.html\">Capitalists, Capitalism, and the Siren&#8217;s Song of Stability<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The desire for stability and predictability has been the calling card of dirigisme regimes since the dawn of capitalism, whether they called themselves &#8220;socialist&#8221;, &#8220;fascist&#8221;, or just plain &#8220;interventionist.&#8221;  It is but a thinly disguised power grab by those who own the means of production, and who will profit at our expense, rather than profiting by serving us better.  &#8220;Stability&#8221; is a siren song that we must do our best to ignore, lest we enable them make an even bigger mess than they already have.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitalists, Capitalism, and the Siren&#8217;s Song of Stability: The desire for stability and predictability has been the calling card of dirigisme regimes since the dawn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-aF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}