Ep. 385 There's No Such Thing as Equality of Opportunity, and Thank Goodness
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
We hear a lot of talk about "equality of opportunity." But is there or could there be such a thing? This apparently benign idea, if taken seriously, would yield innumerable horrors, argues George Reisman in today's episode.
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| 0:00.0 | In a world of Democrats, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:05.2 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:06.4 | And Republicans. |
| 0:07.9 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:12.2 | You need a voice of liberty. |
| 0:15.0 | Look no further. |
| 0:16.7 | You've found it. |
| 0:18.5 | Tom Woods. |
| 0:21.1 | Beware, citizen. |
| 0:22.9 | You are now departing from the world of allowable opinion. |
| 0:26.9 | The Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:33.7 | Welcome to the Tom Woods Show, episode 385. I'm back after being out of town for a week |
| 0:40.8 | and a half, doing some speaking, spending some time with the family out of town. Lots of fun. I'm |
| 0:46.6 | refreshed and ready to go once again. Of course, the show ran in my absence because I recorded |
| 0:52.5 | about 800,000 episodes in advance so I could take the time off. |
| 0:57.0 | But here I am with some fresh ones for you. |
| 0:59.6 | And today we're talking once again to George Reesman. |
| 1:03.0 | We're talking about a brand new essay of his. |
| 1:05.3 | Well, it's an adaptation of some work that he's done already, but it is now available as a stand-alone essay |
| 1:12.3 | called Freedom of Opportunity, not Equality of Opportunity. |
| 1:17.7 | I think there are libertarians who use this term equality of opportunity when what they |
| 1:23.4 | mean to say is freedom of opportunity. We have to be very careful in our use of language, |
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