{"id":15123,"date":"2016-08-23T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2016\/08\/23\/serf-control\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:35","slug":"serf-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2016\/08\/23\/serf-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Serf-Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was searching yesterday for a quote from F.A. Hayek&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Road_to_Serfdom\">The Road to Serfdom<\/a><\/em>. (It&#8217;s a go-to favourite for economic libertarians &#8212; those who&#8217;d prefer that the government left\u00a0the marketplace\u00a0regulate itself.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>In so searching, I found an <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/road-serfdom-0\">illustrated overview of the text<\/a>, produced by General Motors . The drawings are spare, powerful, 1940s-style linework, but: ironic, given the behaviour of the most prominent spokesperson for the modern-day marketplace.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11084\">So I gave one of the drawings a little update:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1475\/hayek.gif\" alt=\"hayek\" width=\"370\" height=\"560\"><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was searching yesterday for a quote from F.A. Hayek&#8217;s The Road to Serfdom. (It&#8217;s a go-to favourite for economic libertarians &#8212; those who&#8217;d prefer that the government left\u00a0the marketplace\u00a0regulate itself.) In so searching, I found an illustrated overview of the text, produced by General Motors . The drawings are spare, powerful, 1940s-style linework, but: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}