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2 Dec 2024 1 minute read 3 comments PressF
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, was intriguing, though I anticipated something else. While it offers a sharp critique of capitalism, it does little to advocate for Communism and touches only vaguely on socialism. For those seeking a dee...
23 Nov 2024 4 minute read 0 comments Perfectionist25
Earlier this week, the World Inequality Database (WID) released some shocking numbers. The average monthly income per capita in Sub-Saharan Africa is 15 times lower than that of North America. In South Asia, per capita income is about one-seventh of...
7 Sep 2024 2 minute read 1 comment Myxoplixx
The Dream In the labyrinth of American capitalism, a startling truth lurks slightly beneath the surface, a handful of investment banks wield unprecedented control over the majority of American companies. The "Big Three" asset managers (BlackRock, Va...
14 May 2024 4 minute read 0 comments OfTheFreeMarket
The Philosophy Behind The OTFM Mission Free Market: (n.) An economic system in which the goods, services, prices and values within the market system are created, shaped, decided upon and influenced by the supply and demand of the consumers and produc...
9 Jan 2024 2 minute read 2 comments fmiren
The first part can be found : https://www.publish0x.com/bringing-us-treasurys-onto-the-chain/the-mystery-of-capital-xvzzjxk Dead capital Contrary to what you might think, the poor of the Third World save. A lot actually. Per de Soto’s and his resear...
8 Jan 2024 3 minute read 3 comments fmiren
Introduction “The Mystery of Capital” by Hernando de Soto is an amazing book. It seeks to answer the question, “Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else”, which is also its subtitle. The question, as you can imagine, is too compl...
12 Dec 2023 1 minute read 0 comments TheDarkSage
Franklin was born the 10th son of the 17 children of a man who made soap and candles, one of the lowliest of the artisan crafts. In an age that privileged the firstborn son, Franklin was, as he tartly noted in his Autobiography, “the youngest Son of...
30 Oct 2023 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren
Some thoughts after reading “The Fatal Conceit” by Hayek: Private property is at the core of the liberty and civilization itself. Hayek notes the historical pattern: if central authorities cannot keep themselves from suppressing the freedom for the...
13 Oct 2023 2 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark
The last few days to a week have been a bit 50/50, TBH. On the one hand, I'm a bit glum about coming regulations in ZAF that are going to make it even more difficult for me to remain in the cryptosphere unless I just HODL my crypto until I can move t...
6 Oct 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
That's the gist of the question somebody asked me in a chat group, then was surprised by the length of my answer (which is expanded upon below): Frankly, as questions on morality go, that's a difficult one to answer definitively. (I even started read...
