Tech advances only happen under freedom, they do not just happen. Collectives do not make technology, only individuals do. Eliminating taxes would encourage investments. Tearing down all interventions and regulations would free enterprise. Patents have distorted innovation. They are not necessary. Hosted at the Mises Institute on 30 April 2010.
The Gilded Age ushered in industrial leaders in capitalistic achievement. Success in the world of commerce reflected certain characteristics: stay in touch with the real world, work every job you can, forget about money, focus on the task at hand, surround yourself with smart good people, find the niche that others are missing, improve the world
The fate of the consumer is the fate of civilization itself. Every person influences what is done with the world’s resources. Call it consumerism. Call it free society. Call it capitalism. It works for people. A high school seminar in Auburn, Alabama; 29 April 2011. Sponsored by Dr. Don W.
In Purgatory, there probably aren’t any garbage disposals. People there will have to scrape all food remains into the trash, and if so much as an onion bit gets into the drain, it will have to be carefully fished out before the water is turned on, lest the drain clog. And also it will be as in many cities on the East and West coast: the garbage
Somehow people doubt that this is true, but it is a fact: I was a professional chef with a highly regarded firm that served exotic meats such as elephant, giraffe, snake. So who better to take advantage of the remarkable new availability of exotic meats online ? True, there is a challenge here. I’ve never made Yak, Boar, Elk, or Kangaroo. But the
Dealing with personal failure is one of the great struggles of growing up. When we are young, the possibilities seem without limit, but as the years pass, we face every manner of barrier that causes us to be all too aware that we face a world with many constraints, many of them due to the limits of the temporal world but also, we must admit,
It has been ten years since my office was last cleaned. It was like opening a time capsule — and not just because what I found was old. What I found represented a different epoch, a time when all things that mattered were subject to the law of scarcity: what one had no one else could have and therefore it was treasured and hoarded for all
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