{"id":1001,"date":"2025-11-13T14:44:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:44:04","slug":"on-lemmings-and-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"On Lemmings and Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe id=\"odysee-iframe\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio:16 \/ 9;\" src=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/%24\/embed\/%40MarginalNonHermit%3A3%2FOn-Lemmings-and-Socialism%3A5?r=8gvoByECHNgc2BfQ5o91oxf89bpi1Ui4\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Just a few somewhat tongue-in-cheek thoughts brought on by the recent mayoral election in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Lemmings don&#8217;t actually commit mass suicide, so why is it so easy to convince people to do it? Is the siren song of &#8220;free stuff&#8221; so overpowering that it makes us dumber than lemmings?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Any <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/karl-marx-and-close-his-system\">honest scholar<\/a> can tell you that Marx was kind of a hack. The labor theory of value was dying while he was writing, and he took it hook, line, and sinker without even acknowledging that Smith and his contemporaries <em>knew<\/em> something was seriously wrong with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Mises wrote his <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/economic-calculation-socialist-commonwealth\">&#8220;Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth&#8221;<\/a> all the way back in 1920.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Economists have dug deeply into <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/podcasts\/mises-u-2025\/entrepreneurship\">how entrepreneurship works<\/a>, and even the best arguments that socialists make typically ignore the vital importance of the entrepreneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Show script <a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lemmings.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This video is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/On-Lemmings-and-Socialism:5\">Odysee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/h2MVch4loxE\">YouTube<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchute.com\/update_video\/d9JlHaOvNwhW\">BitChute<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Image Credits:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@scentspiracy\">Fulvio Ciccolo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@kimleary\">Kim Leary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">&#8230;both courtesy Unsplash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few somewhat tongue-in-cheek thoughts brought on by the recent mayoral election in New York City. 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