We’re still arguing about these issues today. This clip from over thirty years ago features Thomas Sowell, Milton Freidman, and Francis Fox-Piven.
In this clip from the 1980 Free To Choose, socialist Frances Fox Piven tangles with Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell. Sowell, in particular, is incisive with his discussion of “process” versus aspiration — concluding that whatever the purported social goals, liberty suffers.
Francis Fox-Piven argues for equal outcomes as well as equal opportunity. She also claims that people are born into classes in society. A typical socialist, Fox-Piven is best known for her “topple the system” radical theories on over-loading everything at once.
Sowell takes her to task with emphasis. Today he is America’s leading economist, in my opinion.
Friedman says the greatest inequality is by the use of special government privileges. The greatest freedom lies in a system in which unequal results may be obtained. Freidman was the lead economist at UIC’s “Chicago School”, which is an off-shoot of the original Austrian “Classic Liberal” school of thought.
So without further ado, here’s the short clip: