Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If you were to double everyone's income, or if everyone's income were doubled naturally over the course of time, then you would reduce poverty significantly but you would have also increased the gap.

People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.

When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.