/lit/ - Literature

Thoughts? Is Capitalism and Freedom worth a read?

Isn't it amazing that Libertarians crafted an ideology in which the financial speculators and the bankers provide indispensable service and deserve all the money, but the blue collar workers don't even deserve minimum wage, because there are millions of people around the world that can replace them?

>lit
>career

I remember hearing the amazing stories from my anthropology profs about how Milton Friedman flew over Chile in a jet bought for him by Ronald Reagan, parachuted into the capital, and raged hard throughout the city, indiscriminately snapping the necks of every Chilean woman and child to cross his path of mayhem. Friedman's evil rampage prevented the nascent communist grassroots movement, which was almost as popular with the Chilean people as it was with American humanities professors, from reaching fruition. This was a tragedy of epic proportions because the command and control economy was about to usher in a new golden age of economic and sociopolitical utopia. While Friedman was finishing ripping the beating hearts out of the chests of old women and eating them as he quoted passages from Free to Choose, the Chilean people learned to never question the capitalist overlords from Chicago. They were shocked by the animalistic brutality of this 5 foot shiny headed demon-god. So shocked were they in fact, that from the time of Friedman's visit, legends of "the shock doctrine", the massacre of the innocents at the hands of the deranged Friedman, spread throughout Latin America to American campuses. When news of the story broke among sociology and gender studies departments, there was a collective wail of morning and gnashing of teeth. The critical literary theorists had been unrelenting in their support of the burgeoning Soviet Union at the turn of the century, and they saw what wonders it had worked firsthand for the people of Russia. They felt that they had failed their Chilean brothers. Friedman eventually returned to Chicago from Chile, to return to his Hyde Park throne which was a living chair made from the bodies of welfare recipients, whom were forced to bear their weight of the Libertarian death machine day and night lest their families face the libertarian wrath that had been unleashed in Chile. Now Friedman is lionized by a coalition of Neo nazis, Jewish industrialists, and the religious right, to continue to keep our poor brothers and sisters downtrodden and controlled. Friedman can never die. He is always watching.

And waiting.

>>6825006
increase in GDP is literally the only way to measure a countries overall economic success

>>6824749
>>6824589
This man is to be given sole credit for their economic victory

what does /lit/ think of Milton Friedman?

>>6430175
>then go ahead and enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so.

Dont forget job security and stable income, a nice house with a fence and a dog, wife +2 kids, not waking up at 50 realizing the highlight of your life was getting featured as an "up and coming young writer", 25 years ago.

Is socialism more or less the ideology of bitter losers?