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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...
27 Sep 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark
You say I have no heart,No staying power, no motivation.Ah, alas, alack, sir;You are mistaken.I have no heart for this,only for this.Your artifice of glass and steel,A temple to money,Moves me not.For all its height,It has not pith nor momentIn my mi...
15 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren
Private property is at the core of the liberty and civilization itself. Friedrich Hayek in his "The Fatal Conceit" notes the historical pattern: if central authorities cannot keep themselves from suppressing the freedom for their citizens by abusing...
11 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments fmiren
For the first part of the article, go to: https://www.publish0x.com/real-world-assets/the-mystery-of-capital-xddoxdn Dead capital Contrary to what you might think, the poor of the Third World save. A lot actually. Per de Soto’s and his research t...
10 Jul 2023 3 minute read 1 comment fmiren
“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 complex...
12 Jun 2023 6 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
"As long as there is somebody who can print money and you are all just focused on money, not health, there will be no peace on earth. If you wanna be healthy, connect." — A German doofus whom felt the need to criticize me (on my own damn post, nog a...
5 Jun 2023 8 minute read 3 comments Rorschach's Journal
Once again, I have had the pleasure of reading the thoughts of my Iranian correspondent. Here's what he wrote tonight. (It gets pretty indignant and heated, in case you need a warning for emotive/inflammatory language.) As always, the words in quotes...
18 May 2023 16 minute read 8 comments SirGerardThe1st
Image by G J Whitby from Pixabay The capitalist system in which we have lived for more than 200 years, which is the result of mixing in a shaker the feudal system of distribution of privileges by a king to his lords that lasted more than 1,000 yea...
5 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren
Some thoughts fafter 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 thei...
4 May 2023 5 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark
I'm tired. I'm tired of having to be some indefatigable robotic superman who still manages to prepare and eat four square meals a day, just to survive, let alone get ahead. I'm tired of having to work harder every year and secure a raise just to stay...
