"With a [democratic] government anyone in principle can become a member of the ruling class or even the supreme power. The distinction between the rulers and the ruled as well as the class consciousness of the ruled become blurred. The illusion even arises that the distinction no longer exists: that with a public government no one is ruled by anyone, but everyone instead rules himself. Accordingly, public resistance against government power is systematically weakened. While exploitation and expropriation before might have appeared plainly oppressive and evil to the public, they seem much less so, mankind being what it is, once anyone may freely enter the ranks of those who are at the receiving end. Consequently, [exploitation will increase], whether openly in the form of higher taxes or discretely as increased governmental money “creation” (inflation) or legislative regulation."
everyone has some type of magic inside them. If a person can find their magic and lovingly cultivate it, they'll truly feel alive every day.
...and did you teach him about taxation and take 30% of it? 😂
What were the chores and how many sats?
You’d have to ask him, but I highly doubt he’s implying that only credentialed economists have valid opinions. It seems more like he's venting after spending too much time in the Twitter comments section.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
Dr. Marty Makary on Modern Medicine's Blind Spots
Why the Regime Hates Homeschooling
Bitcoin's Protection under the First Amendment - Ross Stevens
https://nydig.com/research/bitcoins-protection-under-the-first-amendment
"Bitcoin implicates the First Amendment. As a system for collecting and communicating
information ranging from payment data to art, bitcoin is speech. As a statement of protest against the government’s monopoly over money, bitcoin is expressive conduct. And as a collection of individuals that share bitcoin’s hard-coded principles of individual liberty, anti-censorship, and anti-debasement,
bitcoin is an expressive association."
Socialists regard your property as their property, but even more nefariously they regard your children as their property.
— Michael Malice
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
- C. S. Lewis
The Origin of Money: Menger vs. Graeber
Gary Charter made a good counterpoint about this:
Advocates of Liberty Should Abandon the Term "Capitalism"
https://fee.org/resources/advocates-of-liberty-should-abandon-the-term-capitalism/
"The word (capitalism) is tainted. And when people in the streets of countries throughout the developing world chant out their opposition to “capitalism”—meaning, in reality, not genuine freedom but rather unjust dominance by Western powers and their privileged corporate cronies—I think it’s vital for advocates of liberty to be able to make clear that the system of statist oppression the protestors are naming isn’t the system we favor."
Capitalist-entrepreneurs drive the economy forward in their desire to satisfy the demands of consumers. Capital goods themselves are the causes of economic growth and progress. Everything we see around us is the fruit of capital accumulation and saving by capitalists.
Rather than decry the term “capitalism,” we should be more willing to use the term than ever. Capitalists and capital are the cause of growth and progress. The whole of the market system relies upon them. Capitalism should be readily embraced by all defenders of free markets as a descriptive term. Capital is a central part of society. The term that Marx gave as a mark of derision is, in fact, a perfect descriptor of the benefits of the market system—one that advocates of free markets should make a term of pride.
https://mises.org/mises-wire/yes-we-should-defend-term-capitalism
