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15 Nov 2015
What causes #poverty? Nothing. It's the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is, What causes #prosperity?
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Managed to watch the first 4 very painful minutes of this discussion, which is probably best described as Marxist. rumble.com/v7av332-jimmy-dor…
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Un gran ejemplo del mayor daño de la regulación y la redistribución: todo lo que pudo haber sido creado por algún emprendedor si el Estado no se hubiera interpuesto en nombre de la “justicia social” o de corregir una supuesta "falla del mercado".
Para comprender mejor el argumento, vale la pena leer este libro de @PerBylund 👇
Jun 13
If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.
The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.
And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.
Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.
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I've been giving this book out to youngsters lately
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People should read more. Or just interact with people. Spreading arbitrary homemade nonsense such as this actually causes harm. It's an all but criminal act.
The only possible market without the State is barter, where fortuitous surpluses of different products are exchanged for each other by different tribes.
The State is essential for the existence of the market because the market needs a neutral arbiter to keep its rules.
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Most high-horse positions are pretenses. Especially when claimed by these types of handles. But at least the mute should mean I will get less nonsense in my feed...
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Grow up Per.
Muted.
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Happy to see my h-index (x articles cited by x works) increased to 24 and my i10-index (no less than 10 citations) is now at 40. Not shabby! scholar.google.com/citations…
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10 Feb 2024
"I was just doing my job," akin to "I was just following orders," is at the same time an admission of guilt (you did the act) and poor character (a moral failing due to fear, cowardice, or laziness).
It is not a defense.
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Whoever really cares about "economic power" should advocate for free markets, which reward only those who serve others and are voluntary, not state regulations, which produce a semi-static class system backed up by force.
Or you're a fraud.
Concern about wealth inequality is not about jealousy over some guy having a bigger house.
It is more about the fact that it may be a problem that one person has more economic power than entire countries.
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Jun 13
Socialists really believe this. They have no conception of people exchanging without first being told to do so by the State. That's how distant from reality (and humanity) they are.
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Jun 12
The political left has long had a remarkable lack of interest in how wealth is created. As far as they are concerned, wealth exists somehow and the only interesting question is how to redistribute it."
- Thomas Sowell
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Jun 12
"the services which money renders can be neither improved nor impaired by changing the supply of money. ... The quantity of money available in the whole economy is always sufficient to secure for everybody all that money does and can do."
- Ludwig von Mises, Human Action, p. 418
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Jun 12
A lot of people seem to believe that while jobs provide income for people to buy goods, the jobs don't produce those goods, which means what the job is doesn't matter.
It's as peculiar a view as it is common.
A "job" is (remunerated) labor in production. It should be economized.
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Jun 12
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Jun 12
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Jun 12
"How value is created and the standard of living can be increased."
Been revisiting The Problem of Production since yesterday. Underrated for its capital theory insights given its characterization of the enterprise's unique production structure in the broader market process.
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Jun 12
"Communism eradicated more poverty than anything else in human history"
This is true if one defines poverty as monetary inequality (excluding the political elites) rather than destitution. Because communism has proven very effective in making all non-insiders destitute (or dead).
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But we do not actually need the historical record to prove this, although it too is very clear. Just minimal understanding for how value is created and the standard of living can be increased is enough to realize communism cannot have other outcomes.
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