Months ago, as a result of the train accident in Adamuz, Spain, I wrote an article entitled “Bureaucracy increases accidents and risks“. And, precisely, now the earthquake in Venezuela had such serious consequences, not because of the geology that is part of nature known and preventable in advance by man, but because of this bureaucracy.

In that article I said that the idea that the market is something egocentric and perverse is a malicious deformation of something as natural as the gathering of all people, of a place, cooperating voluntarily, exchanging products and services, in order to improve their lives and collaborating with others, since all voluntary exchange only occurs if each one receives what serves him better than what he gives, this is how efficiency is produced.

But the greed of politicians and bureaucrats has caused the State to arrogate to itself the monopoly of violence with which they impose “laws” and “regulations” that, like all........

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