“Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.”
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He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.
It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.
We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.