Mises Daily
Author:
Murray N. Rothbard
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[This article originally appeared in The Freeman (1962) as “Clichés of Socialism #7.”] “Why, you’d take us back to the horse and buggy.” The basic fallacy of this all-too-common cliché is a confusion between technology and such other aspects of human life as morality and political principles. Over the centuries, technology tends to progress: