Language shapes the way we think. Assistant professor of psychology, neuroscience, and symbolic systems at Stanford University, Lera Boroditsky, goes so far as to say, "people who speak different languages do indeed think differently and that even flukes of grammar can profoundly affect how we see the world."

Thus, the words we use, even in our own language, affect what we think about the things we talk about. So, it's important to recognize how the regime uses words to make us think about things the way they want us to think about them. They can even make us believe in things that don't exist at all.

Example: "Working class" and "working families." These things don't exist. There is no such thing as a separate class of people or families who work, while all others do not work, unless one is talking about the distinction between unemployed and retired people and everyone else.

And as we all know, that is not the distinction Elizabeth Warren is making.

The truth is every household is really a going concern, a business, that sells a product on the market like every other business. For some households, the business is what we call "B2B," (business to business), just like a supplier of rubber gaskets to a manufacturer.

That these households happen to sell a product called "labor" to a business does not fundamentally change anything, even though we call these sellers "employees" and their customers "employers." 

Yet because we've made up special words for this particular buyer-seller relationship, we suddenly think it's different. We've even invented a whole, imaginary class of people to put these sellers in called, "the working class." 

Do you see what I mean about the importance of language?

Both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders claim the system is rigged against this imaginary working class and, in a way, they're right. Except it's rigged in precisely the opposite way they think it is. For Trump and Sanders, the problem is too much freedom and too much protection of property rights for people not in the working class. 

In reality, the problem is precisely the opposite. By treating "employees" differently - and taxing them differently - the political system does everything it can to keep them relatively poor and ensure they die penniless. And the key to getting them to go along with such a system is ensuring they maintain what Ludwig Von Mises called, "the anti-capitalist mentality."

That's what keeps them begging for more of what keeps them poor. I discuss all this in greater length on today's episode of Tom Mullen Talks Freedom. 

Speaking of the anti-capitalist mentality, Dr. Walter Block joins me on Wednesday to discuss some fascinating academic work he's done on why the this worldview is so hard to shake, even though all empirical evidence points to free markets producing the best outcomes.

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