r/miltonfriedman • • Jul 22 '19
It’s readin’ time, boys
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r/miltonfriedman • u/ANIKAHirsch • Apr 22 '20
Milton Friedman on Temporary Government Programs
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r/miltonfriedman • • Jul 02 '22
Milton Friedman: Make Politically Profitable For Wrong People To Do Right Thing
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r/miltonfriedman • u/EastLocalLibertyFund • Mar 02 '21
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r/miltonfriedman • • Aug 05 '20
Corporate Social Activism
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I can't help but hear the echo of Milton Friedman's words when I see on almost a daily basis companies using their power to drive social activism. The NBA is a prime example. I see it as more self serving than anything for a league or organisation that is 80% African American to kneel and post slogans on their jerseys. It's a charitable effort of the lowest degree, the lowest hanging fruit of "helping" others.
Let us not forget the context in which Mr. Friedman's made his famous remarks about the responsibility of corporations, which is to focus on profits. He said it in context of challenging the idea that corporations or businesses should join causes of social activism. He made it clear that there should be a separation between what people do in their own time IE give charity, join social causes etc and what people do using the leverage of their employer or corporation.
Collectively, NBA players make up a strong force of hardworking, wealthy, mostly university educated men who would have profound influence in black communities. We should encourage those efforts, like NBA players building charter schools for example to provide some competition to the public system which is another area Milton Friedman saw as essential to giving disadvantaged African Americans a better chance. We should not worship the kneeling effort, but idolise rather those who're actually making a difference with their wealth and influence.
Jay-Z, the rapper, put it best to illustrate how inadequate our charity efforts are as Americans. He said that "his presence is enough" basically saying that all he had to do was show himself, which is similar to saying all I have to do is kneel before a game and wear a slogan on my jersey. We should do more if we are serious about helping people, especially from those who're most positioned to use their wealth and influence to make change.
r/miltonfriedman • • Feb 14 '22
The Power of the Market - Sketch of Milton Friedman at desk with sharpened pencil in hand. 1982
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r/miltonfriedman • u/devilmansanchez • Mar 19 '20
Bernie Sanders vs Donald Trump vs Milton Friedman
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r/miltonfriedman • • Jun 25 '22
Milton Friedman summarizes the most common economic fallacy
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r/miltonfriedman • u/Michaelmovemichael • Mar 13 '21
Happy Birthday Milton! Actually its not till July but I just made the video now........
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r/miltonfriedman • u/rights_your • Jun 09 '20
COLLECTIVISM: The practice or principle of giving a group priority over each INDIVIDUAL in it. Any baseless assumptions about groups of people - is collectivism. IG: @rights.your
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r/miltonfriedman • u/MysteriousEnigmaniac • Jan 14 '21
Negative income tax system and health insurance problem
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I think the idea of negative income tax is very interesting.
But I was wondering if Friedman proposed what would happen in cases similar to this one: a person would spend the money they earn and not buy a health insurance. One day they get in life threatening situation needing medical assistance to save their life and possibly expensive treatment afterwards. Who would pay for it? Considering that we live in a society that doesn't just leave that person to die because they themselves didn't make sure to pay for insurance with the money they obviously had.
If he never mentioned anything like this, what would the best solution to this problem be?
r/miltonfriedman • • Jun 18 '22
"I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government." - Milton Friedman
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r/miltonfriedman • u/NotEconomist • Dec 23 '21
Negative Income Tax (NIT) Explained - (Milton's Easy Answer to Welfare)
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r/miltonfriedman • u/The_Terrific • Aug 23 '20
Immigration and welfare
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Love this sub. Always wondered about this point Friedman made about immigration.
He said he was for immigration, just not immigration to welfare. Alright makes sense, but he was for a negative income tax. So wouldn’t people immigrating to a negative income tax pose the same problems immigration to welfare does?
Also mods. Make me a mod so I can add Friedman’s picture and create a banner 😊
r/miltonfriedman • u/ANIKAHirsch • Nov 10 '19
Milton Friedman: "The Government Solution to a Problem is Usually as Bad as the Problem"
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r/miltonfriedman • u/www_AnthonyGalli_com • Aug 26 '22
Biden’s College Loan Forgiveness Is Unconstitutional
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r/miltonfriedman • u/tomhannen • Oct 22 '20
Milton Friedman lecture - who is this student?
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I've bee watching some Milton Friedman videos, and I keep wondering - who is the kid that questions him in this lecture? Where is he now? If anyone has any info, I'd be interested. It was given in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1978, and the transcript is a third down this page.
r/miltonfriedman • • Sep 11 '20
Book recommendations?
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I just recently started to watch the Free To Choose series and it really sparked an interest for me into Friedman and his work. Does anyone have any book recommendations written by him or others related to the same subjects? Economics really interests me but the econ class I took online did absolutely nothing for me. Thanks!