". . . a republic, if you can keep it."
I’ve slowly drifted away from the Mises Institue’s apriorism and toward the consequentialist arguments of David Friedman.
This is a great lecture, though I think he errs (or perhaps a little loose with metaphors) in his appeal to nature early on. It’s so riddled with exceptions and qualifications, that they exceptions can easily be the rule.
When progressive journalists are beaten silly and robbed en masse by progressive citizens in a progressive city run by a progressive mayor, elected by progressive voters in a country headed by a progressive president, what is the appropriate reaction for a reader of such accounts or even simply a casual observer to have?
Is asking someone to pass the popcorn considered rude or indifferent?
If popcorn passing is intolerant, would something more multicultural like asking someone to pass the churros be more palatable?
I’m so confused.
So back to the only thing that matters to me and my family: creating and building things.
And cashing up.
Ka-Ching is not a province in China.