Free Markets
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How Keith Flint Demonstrated that There are No Limits to Progress
Just as we come up with ever-newer ways to combine materials into new goods and services, people are constantly coming up with new ways to combine sounds into music.
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The Strange Economics of Mechanical-Clock Repair
You are not in it for the money? That might be the source of the problem.
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How To Become Talented
By the time the talent reaches our eyes and ears, the hard work is done. We see only the finished product. In our attempt to discern the difference between their level of awesome and ourselves, we reach for the easiest answer: the person must have been born this way. It just comes naturally.
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Don’t Blame Technology, Blame Yourself
Every new technology comes with an awkward stage of adoption, during which time people get manipulated and break every kind of rule of propriety until they figure out a better way.
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Where Did AOC Get Her Sweet Potatoes?
It drives me crazy to see people so fully enjoying the benefits from private property, trade, technology, and capitalistic endeavor even as they blithely propose to truncate dramatically the very rights that bring them such material joy, without a thought as to how their ideology might dramatically affect the future of mass availability of wealth that…
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The Death of Karl Lagerfeld, and Clothing Too
The death of Lagerfeld does not mean the certain and forever death of elegance. His death might shock us all into a new sensibility that helps us all see what he saw: if we want the world to be beautiful, we have to make it so.
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Are Republicans Turning Against Markets?
No, we do not exist to serve markets; markets exist to serve all people through the freedom to create, trade, and live a better life.
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The Game was Fine but the Ads Were Wonderful
Advertising, an extension of the freedom of speech, is ultimately about celebrating that of which Gladys Knight sang: “the land of the free.”
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What It Really Means to Want Something
This ambiguity of the verb “to want” means that we must beware of political polls.
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It’s the Small Things, Like Hershey’s Kisses, that Matter
Want to become a champion of liberty? Eschew historicism. Be suspicious of grand millenarian eschatologies. Learn to love the little things in life. Celebrate every individual’s right to choose how they live their lives. Smile when you think of every box of chocolate given and received this February 14th.
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How Keith Flint Demonstrated that There are No Limits to Progress
Just as we come up with ever-newer ways to combine materials into new goods and services, people are constantly coming up with new ways to combine sounds into music.
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The Strange Economics of Mechanical-Clock Repair
You are not in it for the money? That might be the source of the problem.
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How To Become Talented
By the time the talent reaches our eyes and ears, the hard work is done. We see only the finished product. In our attempt to discern the difference between their level of awesome and ourselves, we reach for the easiest answer: the person must have been born this way. It just comes naturally.
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Don’t Blame Technology, Blame Yourself
Every new technology comes with an awkward stage of adoption, during which time people get manipulated and break every kind of rule of propriety until they figure out a better way.
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•
Where Did AOC Get Her Sweet Potatoes?
It drives me crazy to see people so fully enjoying the benefits from private property, trade, technology, and capitalistic endeavor even as they blithely propose to truncate dramatically the very rights that bring them such material joy, without a thought as to how their ideology might dramatically affect the future of mass availability of wealth that…
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The Death of Karl Lagerfeld, and Clothing Too
The death of Lagerfeld does not mean the certain and forever death of elegance. His death might shock us all into a new sensibility that helps us all see what he saw: if we want the world to be beautiful, we have to make it so.
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•
Are Republicans Turning Against Markets?
No, we do not exist to serve markets; markets exist to serve all people through the freedom to create, trade, and live a better life.
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•
The Game was Fine but the Ads Were Wonderful
Advertising, an extension of the freedom of speech, is ultimately about celebrating that of which Gladys Knight sang: “the land of the free.”
-
•
What It Really Means to Want Something
This ambiguity of the verb “to want” means that we must beware of political polls.
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•
It’s the Small Things, Like Hershey’s Kisses, that Matter
Want to become a champion of liberty? Eschew historicism. Be suspicious of grand millenarian eschatologies. Learn to love the little things in life. Celebrate every individual’s right to choose how they live their lives. Smile when you think of every box of chocolate given and received this February 14th.