my dad the mechanic
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I'm not a mechanic. My dad is, and he's the guy I run to whenever my car starts making a funny noise or needs some kind of diagnostic. He’s saved me countless thousands of dollars over the years. I come to my dad because he has very specific knowledge and experience in this field. He’s a professional... people paid him for it. Do you know who I don’t run to for answers? People who aren’t mechanics. People who have no knowledge and experience in this field. Seems obvious, right? When I need an oil change, I don’t run to the hospital to find a nurse. I don’t ask the guy in the McDonald's drive-through window where the oil filter is in a 2013 Yaris. I go straight to the people who have the demonstrated knowledge and experience in this field. Then, I pay them, and give them skin in the game. They are now invested in the outcome of my car through a contract. This is how the market works. It’s not just mechanics... pick whatever specialized trade you want… surgeons, pilots, plumbers… these are people who took the time to acquire specialized knowledge and experience, and then by taking on work they have real skin in the game. Real responsibility. Nobody thinks this is controversial. In fact, you might be wondering what point I’m even getting at. I’m just saying plainly obvious things, right? Nobody calls you an elitist for wanting a licensed pilot, and nobody calls you cruel for asking where the surgeon was trained. We do this everywhere, every day. Even when we’re making decisions as mundane as buying a new TV. We look at reviews from people who bought the same one, we read an article by a professional tech writer, and take whatever measures we need to make us feel comfortable handing over our money. The thing we work so hard for. All this for a TV. But when it comes to selecting the rulers of our country? The people who make the rules we all live by, and get to decide how all of our taxes get spent?… Well, for these most important decisions we have something called Universal Suffrage. You don’t have to have any experience, no demonstrated knowledge, no real skin in the game… and if you choose badly? Nothing really happens to you. You get no feedback that you did something wrong, in fact, the opposite. You can find countless people telling you that you did it right and it’s “those other guys” who voted the other way who did something wrong. A mechanic who wrecks your engine hears about it. The surgeon who takes out your kidney when they were supposed to be operating on your heart gets a lawsuit. That's how they got good in the first place. The voter never finds out. You’ll spend an entire evening, maybe more, on the television. Reviews, a professional write-up, maybe a few youtube videos, and a trip to the store to compare them with your own eyes. You’re spending real money that you worked hard for, you don’t want to throw it away on junk. There’s a cost. You have to live with that junk. The government doesn’t work like this. If you're a working class taxpayer, the government will take more from you this year than you spent on that television, and you'll never see a line item for a penny of it. You don't bother checking if you're getting a good return on that money. When you buy the TV you get a receipt down the exact penny of exactly what it cost you, and what you got in return. $728 for the TV. $22.35 for HDMI cables, $125 for insurance… whatever you chose. This is a contract. If the supplier fails to make good on any of those items you have a legal claim against them. They owe you. None of this depended on you doing your homework. The man who walks in and buys the first one he sees without thinking or doing any research gets the same receipt, the same warranty, the same fourteen days to bring it back, and the same court if it burns his house down. He didn’t earn any of it... it’s just part of the deal. Now think about the other one. Your relationship as a taxpayer to the government. No receipt, no itemized list showing precisely where your money went. No contract with clear terms where you can seek resolution in a court if you don’t believe the government is living up to its end of the contract. There’s no contract. You pay what they say you owe, or you go to jail. And so, you pay. Because you’re not self-destructive and you want to go on with your life. You never find out if any of it was worth it. You don’t bother looking for the receipt and checking to see if you got a good deal, because you know that’s not really how this works. So what’s my point? I want you to understand the type of game you’re playing when you enter the political arena. There’s no reason and there’s no accountability to the truth. It’s the only transaction in your life where you hand over the money first, get no accounting of where it went, and have no way to complain if the answer turns out to be nowhere. And you can’t walk away from it. You don’t have to buy the new television. You have to pay your taxes… or else. And so, understand this. Politics is not a marketplace of ideas. It is war. stay close, ~ Clay p.s. You must understand the battlefield, how to pick your battles, and how to win them. That's what I'm teaching in The Arena, which I just released to my patrons this week. Here's an example p.p.s. Only 26 charter slots left, and charter locks your rate for life. stopbeingprey.com/patronage Did someone forward this to you? You can get on my list here: readsowell.com/join I send an email like this every day. |
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