“The call for more ‘public service’ is then a call for more people to work in jobs not representing the preferences of the public, as revealed through the marketplace, but the preferences of third parties enforced through government and paid for by the power of taxation. Forcing the public to pay for art calculatingly insulting to the public’s sensibilities is also a ‘public service,’ as the anointed define the term—and a failure to pay is ‘censorship’ in this same lexicon, regardless of how free those artists remain to produce and sell their products to those willing to pay their own money.” – Thomas Sowell
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