Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum.

Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.

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