He makes a whole argument about how wealth disparity is ok because we need a higher social class to have leisure time to make art.
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It's in The Constitution of Liberty, but is discussed here https://mises.org/library/social-function-economic-inequality …
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Seems like a just-so story, but I think economic inequality is generally a distraction.
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Regardless, when I say Hayekian I mean his take on the knowledge problem in The Use of Knowledge... is decisive.
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The price mechanism solves coordination problems imperfectly, but nothing else is available to humans. It's a technology.
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I have Burczak's _Socialism After Hayek_ and keep meaning to get back to it, and I don't give a shit if people want...
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...to organize syndics or communes or whatever. Knock yourselves out.
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I find the whole political compass "what's my ideology' stuff a bit tiresome. There's something to the Marxist "pick a side" view.
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In human terms, picking a side is usually a prelude to picking genocide.
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Obsession with the "common good" and "stability" is also often a prelude to authoritarianism. It's all a matter of degree really.
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