Keith Knight
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370 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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less money in general people want more resources more power when they have the opportunity to do so if you don't believe in self-interest you don't think taxing at 40 60 90 will really diminish anyone's work ethic you don't think that having tons of regulations
makes it so there are going to be fewer producers, fewer contractors, fewer employers.
With fewer contractors and fewer employers, employees and consumers have less options than they otherwise would.
This is what creates the oligopolies that we experience today that Mamdani just calls monopolies.
But anytime there's an oligopoly, those oligopolies tend to advocate more regulations.
They seem to be very happy with things as they currently are.
When I worked at Walmart,
We had two CEOs, H. Lee Scott and Doug McMullin, explicitly come out in favor of the minimum wage, the same thing Hasan Piker advocates.
Now, how does he explain that?
There is no mechanism by which you can increase the cost of something drastically and still get the same result.
They see that when health care costs rise, fewer people can access them.
But when the number of regulations rise, when it used to take 410 days to build the Empire State Building in 1933, it now takes 410 days for me to find a permit to put an expansion on my small house here.
That is what regulation does.
That's the level of innovation that's been stifled because of the coercive apparatus of the state and the concept of socialists saying instead of achieving our ends with social cooperation in the voluntary realm, we're going to delegate surrogate decision-making processes to the coercive apparatus of government.
This is the heart of why democratic socialism is terrible.
It raises the cost of production, means we're less productive.
It raises the cost of social cooperation and contracting, so we get less cooperation, less contracting, less wealth, and lower standards of living.
And if the poor get poorer, what we should see is instead of looking at money or dollars, it's so hard to compare how much is $100 in America versus $100 in Great Britain's currency versus the euro.
How do you compare today to 1970 in other countries?
It's so difficult.
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