You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an "Idea Economy" which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.
Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.
Nine out of ten eugenicists in the 20th Century were also Progressives or Socialists, as central to the eugenic creed is the desire to engineer and centrally plan human reproduction and heredity. Thes...
Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.
The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.
The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.
The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitar...
Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.
A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.
Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?
Regulations in an "Idea Economy" are restraints on innovation.