Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“People barely care about relative income. How do we know? Because you can easily raise your relative income by moving to a poorer neighborhood, state, or country. Yet almost no one does. Actions speak louder than words. People barely care about equality. How do we know? Because you can easily experience more equality by moving to a more equal neighborhood, state, or country. Yet almost no one does. Actions, again, speak louder than words. But now that we’ve established the hypocrisy of a vast swath of statists, an awkward question arises: Can we use the same ‘actions speak louder than words’ logic to show that libertarians barely care about liberty?” (06/19/25)