Hack Your Shower Head: Plus 10 Other Ways to Get Big Government Out of Your Home

by Jeffrey Tucker

Long ago and far away, government pretended to do good things for us like build parks, boost income, bring electricity to rural areas, and the like. Today, it does the opposite. It sees its role as restricting and tearing down what the private sector creates—for our own good. This is why it is constantly telling us that it must curb our lifestyles. The regulators restrict what we consume, control what we do, and crack down on our ability to live a good life.

If some activity is going well, some new item is making life better, or some food or gadget is newly popular, you can be sure that some bureaucrat is plotting to restrict its use or ban it. The ethos of the public sector has completely changed from 50 years ago. Instead of serving us, politicians on both the left and the right imagine that their main role is thinking of ways to control how we live, direct how we spend what money we make, and take away freedoms and rights once taken for granted.

Inside this book, we show you a few ways to get around the silly regulations!

Genres: Philosophy

79 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is also Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, Austria, Honorary Fellow of Mises Brazil, founder and Chief Liberty Officer of Liberty.me, an adviser to blockchain application companies, past editorial director of the Foundation for Economic Education and Laissez Faire Books, founder of the CryptoCurrency Conference, and author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture.

Reviews

[Melanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read an excerpt, not the whole thing. How to unfix your government-approved devices (shower heads, detergents, lawn mowers). I'm sure the book doesn't have a section on recreating high-watt incandescent bulbs, but I wish it did.