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People, Personas, and Politics 36 – Unfettered Capitalism Scott Douglas Jacobsen & Rick Rosner April 24, 2017 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Right now, in America, we are under the rule of the Republicans or the Right-wing. I thought we could talk about Right-wing philosophy. The major philosophy of which, at least under the current thinking and for the 30 years, is that if government just got out of the way, then everyone would thrive. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What conclusions follow from that? RR: You mean if worked? If it weren’t a kind of nonsense? SDJ: In two ways, what follows in theory? What follows in practice? RR: It is that government regulations and waste are holding back American business and entrepreneurship. If those roadblocks were removed, America, which is a nation of businesspeople – Calvin Coolidge famously said, “The business of America is business,” it turns out it was taken out of context because he said it is not just about business, and that you have to take into account human values. But the idea is unfettered capitalism leads to happy outcomes for the most people, or at least the most deserving people. SDJ: Unfettered capitalism, to be clear, is laissez faire capitalism that you can find in the Cato Institute or form Ayn Rand. RR: Yea! That the market sorts everything out. That if people start effing stuff up environmentally and people don’t like it, then people will find ways to make money out of it, or the people will become unpopular for business reasons and will clean up their acts. A lot of similar thinking, which has been disproven via economic statistics for the past 100 or 150 years by the idea that business works in the short-run. [End of recorded material] Authors[1] Rick Rosner American Television Writer [email protected] Rick Rosner Scott Douglas Jacobsen Editor-in-Chief, In-Sight Publishing [email protected] In-Sight Publishing Endnotes [1] Four format points for the session article:
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AuthorAccording to semi-reputable sources, Rick Rosner has the world’s second-highest IQ. He earned 12 years of college credit in less than a year and graduated with the equivalent of 8 majors. He has received 8 Writer’s Guild Award and Emmy nominations, and was named 2013 North American Genius of the Year by The World Genius Registry. He has written for Remote Control, Crank Yankers, The Man Show, The Emmy Awards, The Grammy Awards, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!. He has also worked as a stripper, a bouncer, a roller-skating waiter, and a nude model. In a TV commercial, Domino’s Pizza named him the World’s Smartest Man.He was also named Best Bouncer in the Denver Area by Westwood Magazine. He spent the disco era as an undercover high school student. 25 years as a bar bouncer, American fake ID-catcher, 25+ years as a stripper, and nude art model, and nearly 30 years as a writer for more than 2,500 hours of network television. He lost on Jeopardy!, sued Who Wants to Be a Millionaire over a bad question, and lost the lawsuit. He spent 35+ years on a modified version of Big Bang Theory. Now, he mostly sits around tweeting in a towel. He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and daughter. You can send an email or a direct message via Twitter, or find him on LinkedIn. ArchivesCategories |