Timothy Birdnow

Treat people like children and they will behave like children. Treat them like adults and they will behave like adults.

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There’s a tendency to believe that free markets and cooperation work, except in difficult or "complex” situations that call for more assertive means.

The great Leonard Read saw the flaw in such thinking.

The more complex the economy, society, or situation, Read observed, "the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely.”

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