“A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.”
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This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.
I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments.
Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
