A useful thought for My Lord the Archbish of York, who today insisted that we should all buy Fairtrade chocolate. In praise of sweatshops.

The direct result was that Bangladeshi textile factories stopped employing children. But did the children go back to school? Did they return to happy homes? Not according to Oxfam, which found that the displaced child workers ended up in even worse jobs, or on the streets — and that a significant number were forced into prostitution.

One of the reasons for increasing inequality is what Simon Baron Cohen calls assortative mating. Will the egalitarians now insist that we should not be free to marry as we wish as a result?

The problem the poor have is that they’re poor: they don’t have enough money. So the solution is to give them more money, yes, not give them things?

On the subject of poverty, it looks like as a nation we’re not going to be as rich in the future as we could have been before the Government started “helping”.

The justification for much of that “help” is well explained here.

Politicians might not be the brightest blades in the knife drawer? Really, who would have thought it?

And finally, the 688 page report on issuing too many reports.

From Adam Smith Institute

Tags: Libertarian, Politics, Liberty, Freedom