In the comments of this post, commenter Wally and I discuss the business feedback of profit and government feedback of votes.
W. E. Heasley, of The Last Embassy blog, recently posted an excellent short video from Learn Liberty that helps explain why voting isn’t a very effective feedback mechanism:
Most of us make purchasing and voting decisions. Sometimes they are a little of both, like when you vote with your family on what’s for dinner.
The following are links to and excerpts from previous posts I’ve made quoting economists Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams, who do an excellent job of explaining why purchase decisions are a more effective feedback mechanism than voting.
1. From this post in 2010, I quoted from Thomas Sowell’s book, Intellectuals and Society. He explains the difference in these feedbacks well:
The fundamental difference between decision-makers in the market and decision-makers in government…
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