People in high office and their friends are at the receiving end of anger and frustration due to their misbehaviors of late. The release of the Epstein files have only fueled this. The internet is ablaze with anger against the “elites.” Is this an opportunity, as some claim, to advance ideas of individual liberty? To convince people of the evils of coercive state action? With such idiots at the top, surely we can fuel mistrust for the system.

I disagree. In Spain we have had plenty of “political corruption.” From profiteering off the public purchase of face masks, to creating a job to line a politician’s family with public money, even as far as spending money intended for unemploymentrelief in prostitution and drugs, we have grown accustomed to this abuse of entrusted power for personal gains.

Has the system weakened? To the contrary, it has made it more robust. The current government came in to “clean up” the corruption of the previous one. That meant that people gave them more credibility, not less. Ideologically, Spanish people continue to be overwhelmingly statist. As an example, in the last controversy on the state of the rail network, not a single voice has suggested trying an alternative private system.

This makes absolute sense. In this article I will try and make the point of why political corruption does not really exist and why libertarians would be ill-advised to concentrate on these misbehaviors.

Humans need to transform their environment to pursue their wants. Goods and services do not have intrinsic value and individuals have their own goals. Goods and services only have the value given by those who want them. For example I could produce a painting through much time and effort, but it would be worthless as no one would buy it.

Humans........

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