Consumerism

There was a time when the advocates of socialism argued that it would lead man to material abundance, whereas free-market capitalism would lead only to increasing misery and would ultimately collapse under its own internal stresses. You don't hear that too much these days, and for good reason. A century of empirical evidence has shown the contrary — that the free market leads to increasing wealth and material freedom, while socialism leads us only to poverty, state supremacy, and ultimately, mass murder.

I’ve struggled with how to frame this article – and indeed, the purpose of this website. It’s gone through several rounds of iteration between Bitterman, Dirac, and I – and it will probably go through more. I’m going to attempt to answer the question, “Why is RoadToFailure here?”

We want to do our part to stop the self-destruction of America.

Perhaps it’s easiest to understand our purpose by hearing what this site was almost called: “Don’t Be a Fuck”. Tired of reading demagogues and hucksters such as David Broder or Robert Kiyosaki exploit a misinformed public, we were going to keep a running commentary on these scammers in an attempt to show the truth. Our goal would have been to help people become happier (and thus, not turn into “Fucks”) by steering them away from propagandists and “advice” given in bad faith. We’re still doing that, but we’ve adopted a larger scope...the threats to Freedom and Democracy.