Buildings Collapsing: the Fault of Capitalism?

Buildings Collapsing: the Fault of Capitalism?
The partially collapsed Champlain Towers South residential building is demolished, in Surfside, Fla., on July 4, 2021. Marco Bello/Reuters
Walter Block
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What do we learn from the story of the Three Little Pigs? One of them built his house out of straw, the other of wood, and the third, the smartest, did so out of brick. Then, when the Big Bad Wolf came a-calling, huffing and puffing and trying to blow their houses down, only the latter survived.

Walter Block
Walter Block
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Walter E. Block is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics, College of Business, at Loyola University New Orleans.
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