The best way to foster a commercial culture and accommodate commerce is to allow the trade of services, such as e-hailing, to operate as freely as possible...
A good post ... violence being used against disruptive competition. The most critical actions to promote free markets and individual liberty are those against violence, especially but not only against the violence of the mafia kind. Markets within which violence prevails cannot be free ...
Much of libertarian literature refers to the Non Aggression Principle, the NAP, as the basis for defining violence, but a more precise formula would be the Harm Consent Rule, the HCR, originated by Trevor Watkins coupled to the "Nature of Us" as the source for an ethics and morality appropriate for us, the NoU, see: https://thetaooffreedom.substack.com/p/the-nature-of-us-nou?utm_source=publication-search ...
Good article. This e-hailing saga is a nearly-perfect microcosm of the problems we face as South Africans. we have:
1. Existing industry players calling for regulation in order to restrict competition, under the cloak of protecting consumers (I was shocked when looking at the history of regulation, 100% of the time in the cases I looked at, it was the existing players either secretly or openly pushing regulation).
2. People calling for barriers in a low-skill self-employment industry, one of the few still able to absorb the massive number of unemployed we have in this country.
3. Government failing to protect law-abiding citizens from violence but energetically serving the interests of those terrorising them.
The lack of a commercial culture is one of the things that unites South Africans in my opinion. There is a pervasive belief that too much competition is harmful to the economy. This is why we come up with not so smart ideas like the competition commission, instead of just, I don't know, allowing people to compete.
Give it a few months to years, the same people will be complaining about how uber is no longer easy to join and maybe Uber is racist because they don't do that in America. We have certain reliable patterns in this country.
A good post ... violence being used against disruptive competition. The most critical actions to promote free markets and individual liberty are those against violence, especially but not only against the violence of the mafia kind. Markets within which violence prevails cannot be free ...
Much of libertarian literature refers to the Non Aggression Principle, the NAP, as the basis for defining violence, but a more precise formula would be the Harm Consent Rule, the HCR, originated by Trevor Watkins coupled to the "Nature of Us" as the source for an ethics and morality appropriate for us, the NoU, see: https://thetaooffreedom.substack.com/p/the-nature-of-us-nou?utm_source=publication-search ...
Good article. This e-hailing saga is a nearly-perfect microcosm of the problems we face as South Africans. we have:
1. Existing industry players calling for regulation in order to restrict competition, under the cloak of protecting consumers (I was shocked when looking at the history of regulation, 100% of the time in the cases I looked at, it was the existing players either secretly or openly pushing regulation).
2. People calling for barriers in a low-skill self-employment industry, one of the few still able to absorb the massive number of unemployed we have in this country.
3. Government failing to protect law-abiding citizens from violence but energetically serving the interests of those terrorising them.
The lack of a commercial culture is one of the things that unites South Africans in my opinion. There is a pervasive belief that too much competition is harmful to the economy. This is why we come up with not so smart ideas like the competition commission, instead of just, I don't know, allowing people to compete.
Give it a few months to years, the same people will be complaining about how uber is no longer easy to join and maybe Uber is racist because they don't do that in America. We have certain reliable patterns in this country.