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The following is an excerpt from The Innovator Versus the Collective. Every government intervention is justified as being in the “public interest,” the “common good,” the “general welfare,” or something similar. These are collectivist clichés, intended to imply that some policy will have widespread benefits. But in truth, they are used to justify government interventions…
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