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The Worldly Philosophers
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May 23, 2022
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August 27, 2024
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"“But the laws of the market will be only a part of Smith’s inquiry. There is another question that interests him: whither society?
The laws of the market are like the laws that explain how a spinning top stays upright; but there is also the question of whether the top, by virtue of its spinning, will be moved along the table.”
Indeed i hv trouble convincing ppl that d stock market is not a casino - its win-win"
The laws of the market are like the laws that explain how a spinning top stays upright; but there is also the question of whether the top, by virtue of its spinning, will be moved along the table.”
Indeed i hv trouble convincing ppl that d stock market is not a casino - its win-win"
September 6, 2024
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25.0%
"“Famine seems to be the last, the most dreadful resource of nature. The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to provide subsistence ... that premature death must in some shape or other (diseases etc) visit the human race.”
-Malthus
Wonder if pro-immigration walas are equally alarmist while holding diametrically opposite view ?"
-Malthus
Wonder if pro-immigration walas are equally alarmist while holding diametrically opposite view ?"
September 9, 2024
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40.0%
"“No society in which eccentricity is a matter of reproach can be in a wholesome state.”
-JS Mill"
-JS Mill"
September 12, 2024
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55.0%
""Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state.
They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone !"
-Frederic Bastiat on Socialism"
They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone !"
-Frederic Bastiat on Socialism"
