Commonsense Capitalism: 'Why Milton Friedman is Not a Hollywood Liberal'

Source:Commonsense Capitalism- Professor Milton Friedman in 1978 or 79.

"Why Milton Friedman is Not a Hollywood Liberal"

Source:Commonsense Capitalism

The reason why Milton Friedman was not a "Hollywood Liberal" (a term I don't agree with) is because as Professor Friedman said in this video, he doesn't believe in a high level of concentrated power, whether it is government power and corporate. 

Professor Friedman believed in what he would call a free market (not that there's such a thing as a free market) and a free society, where as many people as possible are competing with each other and living freely and making their own decisions, with their own lives, to have as much individual freedom as possible. That's a paraphrase, but it's pretty close. 

As far as the term "Hollywood Liberal": some of the most classically liberal (meaning real liberal) and center-right (not left-wing) people in America, live or work in Hollywood and are also some of the wealthiest people in America, if not the world. Some of the most pro-individualist, pro-capitalist, pro-private enterprise, pro-individual wealth, people live in and around Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, and Manhattan, New York. Even though all of these big cities get stereotyped as left-wing havens and homes to American leftists. 

In actuality, these so-called Hollywood Leftists, whether you're talking about Jane Fonda, Susan Sarandon, Ben Affleck, or whoever else you want to mention, are actually some of the wealthiest and freest individuals in America, if not the world. But they're also entertainers who play leftists on TV and in film, and in public, but that not what they actually believe, because that's not how they live their own lives.