Tag: capitalism
Low-Level Thinking in Economics and Politics
Milton Friedman once made a distinction between political questions and economic questions. Whether or not every American should be afforded a minimum...
The End of Two Parties, and the End of Democracy
For most of the post WWII era, Fascism was but a bad memory, and America was united against the communist Soviet empire....
Good vs Evil
We have lost our way. At some point, we have blurred the lines between good and evil. We are now at a...
Thomas Malthus, Adam Smith, and You!
The two most important economists in history, in terms of the impact they have had on the world, are Thomas Malthus and...
Postmodernism, Nihilism, Racism, and Capitalism
The political left, like the political right, is comprised of various groups that do not always agree, and as such, it is...
Incentives, Production, Wealth, and Equality
I wrote, some time ago, about how production follows a Pareto Distribution, and you can read that here. Whether right, wrong,...
Disarming Communism’s Most Potent LIES
One needn't be a scientist and economist or a policy guru to disarm the lies on which modern communists promote their demand for central control. Their lies can be disabled by speaking simple, self-evident truth.
The War on Words
George Orwell once said that, "Political chaos is connected with the decay of language," and the decay of language is one of...
Profit-Motive is fueling a gender-dysphoria epidemic
Planned Parenthood has a strong profit-motive to use our public schools to promote gender-dysphoria. Politicians have tremendous political capital to gain by engaging the "social engineering" project that every "victim-class" invites. The incentives of the profit-seeker and of the power-seeker are powerfully aligned in the active promotion of gender dysphoria.
Chinese Crony Capitalism
A simple question. How does a country that is a poor, under-developed, socialist/communist dictatorship go on to become a world economic...