I am not sure this is proper on this serious list, but here
are a couple replies (including by economists of two different schools)
to the popular saying: "If it ain't broken, don't fix
it."
Calvinist: "There is no such thing as a non-broken
thing."
Epicurean: "It is too much trouble fixing it."
PC: "If they aren't broken, don't fix them."
Businessman: "It depends on the subsidy."
Public-school non graduate: "Without no broken thing, you
motherfucker!"
Randian: "A broken think is a broken thing."
Neoclassical economist: "It ain't broken!"
Austrian economist: "Being broken is a discovery
process."
Sociologist: "It is broken."
Politician: "If it ain't fixed, don't break it."
Government bureaucrat: "Fix it."
PIERRE LEMIEUX
Visiting Professor , Université du Québec à Hull
Research Fellow, Independent Institute
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"L'homme vivant sous la servitude des lois prend
sans s'en douter une âme d'esclave."
The man who lives under the servitude of laws takes,
without suspecting it, the soul of a slave.
(Georges Ripert, Le Déclin du Droit, Paris, Librairie
Générale de Droit et de Jurisprudence, 1949, p. 94)
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