Javier Milei to the WEF Globalists: No one wants the poverty and slavery of collectivism

Leftists lie and play the Nazi card because the only choice is between the economic liberty of the Pro-freedom right and the collective slavery of the Authoritarian left.

The new President of Argentina and economics professor Javier Milei made the case for economic liberty at the WEF meeting in Davos, and it was a perfect takedown of collectivism. The fact that it was delivered right in the faces of the WEF Globalists (insert your preferred pejorative here) was only icing on the cake.  

We encourage you to listen to the entire speech since it was only a relatively short 23 minutes and through the magic of AI, someone has been able to mimic the translation of the speech in his style and alter the video to match:

Javier Milei Speech in English (via AI) - World Economic Forum 2024 in Davos

After a warning about the creeping danger of collectivism, he cited the historical background to bolster his points. Beginning with the experience of Argentina and then expanding it out to make his case. His point is that free market ‘capitalism’ – economic liberty - is not only the one way to alleviate world poverty, but it’s the only moral way to do so.  

He then gives a short master class on why economic liberty is the best way to lift everyone out of poverty – starting with what the world looked like before the implementation of free market economics and what happened after this took place:

If we look at the history of economic progress, we can see how between the year zero and the year 1800 approximately, world per capita GDP practically remained constant throughout the whole reference period.

If you look at a graph of the evolution of economic growth throughout the history of humanity, you would see a hockey stick graph, an exponential function that remained constant for 90% of the time and which was exponentially triggered starting in the 19th century.

Then he detailed the numbers on how the world’s economy has grown exponentially:

And throughout the whole period between the year zero and the year 1800, the per capita GDP growth rate remains stable at around 0.02% annually. So almost no growth. Starting in the 19th century with the Industrial Revolution, the compound annual growth rate was 0.66%. And at that rate, in order to double per capita GDP, you would need some 107 years.

Now, if you look at the period between the year 1900 and the year 1950, the growth rate accelerated to 1.66% a year. So you no longer need 107 years to double per capita GDP - but 66. And if you take the period between 1950 and the year 2000, you will see that the growth rate was 2.1%, which would mean that in only 33 years we could double the world's per capita GDP.

Making the obvious conclusion that economic liberty is the only engine to lift the entire world out of poverty:

We should remember that by the year 1800, about 95% of the world's population lived in extreme poverty. And that figure dropped to 5% by the year 2020, prior to the pandemic. The conclusion is obvious.

Far from being the cause of our problems, free trade capitalism as an economic system is the only instrument we have to end hunger, poverty and extreme poverty across our planet. The empirical evidence is unquestionable.

Collectivism can only parasitically feed off what is produced by the free enterprise system. Thus, it cannot improve upon that of economic liberty. It only takes the economics professor a few minutes to explain why economic liberty is the best way to lift everyone out of poverty. He then goes on to rip the collectivism of the WEF Globalists:

Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by some well-meaning individuals willing to help others and others motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste, the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism. We're here to tell you that collectivist experiments are never the solution to the problems that afflict the citizens of the world. Rather, they are the root cause.

It's important to understand that authoritarian leftists have been using all manner of deflections and distractions to keep us off balance so that we don’t realize what is truly going on. Thus, they keep on pushing the boundaries of the culture war so we don’t take notice of the ever-tightening grip of the administrative state. 

They also tend to project their authoritarianism on the pro-freedom right for a very important reason, and not just wish casting to get some ‘Republicans’ to vote for Biden because of the cacophony of propaganda that President Trump ‘poses a risk to U.S. democracy.’ We’ll get to that in a second, but first, we want to note that President Milei made the point that the traditional definition of socialism - where the state owns the means of production – needs to be updated in light of new technologies and circumstances, that governments can control people in a myriad of different ways:

Today, states don't need to directly control the means of production to control every aspect of the lives of individuals. With tools such as printing money, debt, subsidies, controlling the interest rate, price controls, and regulations to correct so-called market failures, they can control the lives and fates of millions of individuals.

It’s vitally important to understand that collectivism comes in many guises and that it’s just another authoritarian leftist culture war distraction to hurl the common pejoratives that merely refer to collectivist variations:

This is how we come to the point where, by using different names or guises, a good deal of the generally accepted political offers in most Western countries are collectivist variants. Whether they proclaim to be openly communists, fascists, Nazis, socialists, Social Democrats, nationalists, socialists, Democrat Christians or Christian Democrats, neo-Keynesians, progressives, populists, nationalists, or globalists. At bottom, there are no major differences. 

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Always keep in mind this important point made by the economics professor, in that there are no major differences between the collectivist variants. It’s all about the same slavery and poverty-inducing ideology. So, why do the authoritarian leftists always lie about this issue?

Why is it so important for them to confuse the issue and project their ideology on the pro-freedom right? The answer is right in front of us.

Because without the false threat of ‘fascism from the right,’ the choice is simple.

Without their lies, the choice is economic liberty with the pro-freedom right or the slavery of collectivism with the authoritarian left. 

Freedom or slavery, that’s the choice.

What would most sane people choose?

What would you choose?

That is why the authoritarian left has to lie. 

That is why they incessantly play the Nazi card and project their authoritarianism on the pro-freedom right.

Always remember this and see how it explains most of their actions.

Originally published on the American Thinker