April 29, 2025

The market-place is a place set aside where men may deceive and overreach each other.

Anacharsis (fl. c.600 BC), Scythian philosopher, quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, Sententiae, Seldes p.12

Why, when the deception in the marketplace is great and the many suffer, it is to government that the deceivers appeal for relief? How is it that profit is always privatized, and losses socialized?

What truly stinks is that after the mess is cleared up at the expense of the general public, the deceivers fight like hell to prevent the imposition of any controls, all in the name of “free markets”. Free for whom? And for what?