Natural Disasters

 

Despite what people today almost universally believe, it is not the job of government to help people recover from natural disasters, like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, fires, earthquakes, and storms. If they’re hurt, or their homes or businesses are damaged, it’s mostly the job of self-caring individuals to help themselves. It’s also the job of expert aid organizations, both paid and voluntary. It is not the job of a “helpful” welfare state or a “soft” Big Brother, which have no right to exist.

Firstly, in the event of a rare natural disaster, people need to take proper precautions. Afterwards, if disaster has still struck them, they need to call upon their savings and insurance. Next, they need to turn to family and friends. After that, they need to look to neighbors and coworkers. Lastly, they might in desperation try applying to public charities or begging from random strangers. But they better learn a great lesson from this.

Ultimately, specialist and expert aid organizations are pretty good at helping people get back on their feet. Governments, in turn, are terrible.

It’s the job of government to protect people and property – not to assist disaster victims. That’s not part of its function and it has no idea how to do it. The only proper activity of the state after natural disasters is extra police activity to prevent opportunistic looters.

However much our world is currently trapped in the nightmare of the nanny state, and state regulation of everything, government has no right to “rob Peter to pay for the disaster victim Paul”. Proper government isn’t involved in charity or “redistribution” of wealth. That’s robbery and tyranny. Any thieving, “helpful” state agency, or those who support it, need to be tossed in jail for a decade or three. Government should never rob the public treasury to pay for those suffering from life’s inevitable catastrophes, emergencies, injuries, diseases, poverty, bad luck, and the like. That’s the job of the various individuals involved and their professional medical, repair, and construction organizations. By definition, government is incompetent to help and will always foul up.

In the end, everyone needs to be smart, virtuous, and ready, when to comes to potential natural disasters. They also need to have reliable savings and insurance, family and friends, neighbors and coworkers, and so on. If they don’t, that’s their fault.

Such people need to have more self-love and live more responsibly. They need to behave like respectable, worthy adults – not pathetic, helpless children. In certain rare and extreme situations, possibly people should rely upon public charities and random strangers. But proper, proud, and noble folk rarely or never accept charity or beg. Even in the event of a hideous disaster, people should try to be noble souls and not pitiful worms.

Life deep in the Industrial Revolution era is essentially easy. Everyone is rich and ready to roll. But every once in a while horrific disasters strike, and these can be hard. So it’s the job of every person to be overall prepared for them. It’s the job of society too.

But it’s never the job of government to “help”. It’s morally wrong to steal from society and the public coffers. And the “aid” these pathetic people receive from the evil, tyrannical welfare state is almost always dreadful and close to worthless.

People need to create a free and capitalist government, and resultant society, which makes everyone a millionaire. Then they need to use that money and their native intelligence to be ready for emergencies. They need to save plenty of money, get proper insurance, form good relationships with family and friends, and all the rest. Then natural disasters will hurt them far less than before.

The Permanent Depression

 

The government is forever at war with the economy. The government is forever destroying wealth and causing poverty, pain, misery, and death. This includes the South Sea Bubble (1720), Panic of 1797, Panic of 1837, Panic of 1857, Long Depression (1873-96), Panic of 1907, Great Depression (1929-39), Global Recession (1981-82), Great Recession (2007-09), and Wu Flu Lockdown Depression (2020-21).

All were caused by government coercion and the welfare state. But all were blamed upon economic freedom and capitalism. Mankind has never learned the lesson of these bubbles, panics, recessions, and depressions.

When government attacks the economy it does damage to it. So too when it attacks society and the individual. But such assaults and coercion – such regulation, redistribution, tyranny, and “help” – is universally seen as good for the economy. It’s seen as good for society and the individual too. For 300 years now mankind has been unable to figure out that freedom is good and slavery is bad.

The Scientific Revolution of the 1600s led to the Industrial Revolution of the 1700s and the widespread capitalism of the 1800s. Humans became impossibly wealthy. Simultaneously, culture was radically enriched, society turned remarkably harmonious, and individual happiness soared.

Such was the product of moderate political, economic, social, and personal liberty. Full liberty would have produced utopia.

But philosophical geniuses -- and thus political leaders too -- didn’t understand this. So government was forever on the attack. Intellectuals and rulers viewed political, economic, social, and personal freedom as mostly evil. Such welfare statists always wanted to “improve” society and “fix” the problems caused by “too much” freedom and “the excesses” of capitalism.

Hence, our welfare state -- and not a free state. It “reined in” individual rights and human liberty in order to avoid Marxist “exploitation” and “oppression”. Also the natural “chaos” and “social destruction” of overall freedom. Additionally, the welfare state controlled the “robber barons” and “private slavery” endemic to unregulated capitalism. The evils of freedom never end!

For three centuries now government has embraced various cockamamie economic and social theories such as mercantilism, socialism, Keynesianism, and monetarism. These justify its attacks upon men and business. The coercive welfare state offers benevolent “guidance” which lessens or prevents the “business cycle” and the “booms and busts” inherent to economic freedom. The coercive welfare state benevolently “redistributes” wealth to lessen or prevent poverty and the unjust inequalities of wealth natural to economic freedom. The coercive welfare state benevolently “regulates” the economy to lessen or prevent the “natural monopolies” and “private tyrannies” which are a permanent part of economic freedom. This is what everyone thinks.

But in real life, the coercive welfare state is forever "benevolently" creating real depressions, recessions, panics, exploitation, oppression, tyranny, poverty, pain, misery, inequality, monopolies, etc. thru regulation and redistribution. These last two are tyrannical and have no right to exist. The welfare state does damage via myriad labor laws and Big Business permits, licenses, franchises, charters, monopolies, subsidies, protectionism, tax loopholes, and more.

Government creates plutocrats, oligarchs, and robber barons as it establishes and enforces enslavement, tyranny, fascism, corporatism, crony “capitalism”, and phony “capitalism”. Government inflicts these horrors upon the world because real capitalism and economic freedom are universally seen as evil, just as welfare statism and political coercion are universally seen as cures for this evil.

You couldn’t create a more fatuous and depraved belief-system if you tried. But this nonsense and nightmare has been believed by virtually everyone for 300 years now.

And humanity will never learn. When it comes to politics, economics, sociology, and personal behavior, it isn’t in the power of mankind to understand that freedom is good and slavery is bad.