Et tu, Brute?
Daily Archives: 9 January 2014
The Poor
The myriad “poor” advocates in America must talk about inequality. If they instead talked material condition they’d have to confront the fact that their conditions have improved dramatically.
So why the continued advocacy? I think there are two reasons: 1) it gives people an excuse for their failure. 2) status.
Great presentation of hard data by Stefan Molyneux:
* Judging by living standards, the official poor would have been middle class in the 1970s.
* The poor are largely imported (immigration).
* Conservatives and consistently and considerable more generous than American liberals.
* Religion is a strong indicator of charitable giving.
The NY Review of Books Molotov Cocktail Cover
In the 1960s, the Marxists tried violence as a means of starting the revolution — after evolving capitalism, and intellectual cajoling had failed.
www.vdare.com/posts/new-york-review-of-books-never-trust-anyone-under-79