Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other than war, or otherwise absolutely vital, goods is prohibited.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.
I don't want to have anything to do with the government. And yet if we don't have any regulations, there goes civilization, there goes security, and there goes protecting you against what people are going to sell you.
Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.
The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists.
It's much better to have rules that we can actually live within. And absolute prohibitions, generally, are not the kind of rules that countries would live within.
We have rules about the environment and rules about worker safety and rules about consumer protection.
Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.
To guard and to deal with others' goods as one's own is considered as the mark of proper trade among merchants.
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.