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Mine isn't so much a crusade for economic freedom as it is a crusade against the sameness and blandness of the modern world. I want the vibrancy you find in a bit of chaos.

"A great degree of unhappiness in humans does not arise from the situations they find themselves in. A greater amount of unhappiness arises that is created by an unhappy narrative in their mind."

"People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul."

"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always."

"You pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon but here you are confusing a screen for the world"

It is not happy people that are grateful, it is grateful people who are happy.

@Antonio82687742 I think the history of the value of the dollar says otherwise.

@WhenItDiesThere It’s called euphoria, it always comes around at this point in the cycle

When I see things like this, I think it means someone got reassurance that they are going to print a lot of money. You and and I know that war and disruption of the oil supply are bad for the economy. The little guy gets...

(and your house) are safe but your savings account is about to get robbed!

out of the market and into cash but they screw the little guy by inflating away the value of his cash. The economy really does suffer but they protect the market. Prices seem to rise but value actually dips and the guy in cash pays the real price. Gold, stocks...

This is literally mind blowing Spencer Pratt exposes Los Angeles Department of Water and Power salaries - Over 100 LADWP employees earn an annual compensation of over $500,000 per year each - 26 LADWP employees earn more than $600,000 thousand dollars per year - 4 top level LADWP employees earn more than $700,000 dollars a year - The LADWP has a combined water and power budget of 11 billion dollars I looked into it further, and get this 100% of leadership and oversight of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power are aligned with Democrats Mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass appointed the 5 member Board of Water and Power Commissioners, which sets policy and approves major decisions like executive hires and salaries California is essentially run by the mafia They are literally giving themselves $500,000 -$800,000 EACH and this is just one department

@ArthurMacwaters Why was extreme poverty growing untill 1970?

population has grown ~9x in 200yrs, while poverty trends to 0 people act as though capitalism is a zero sum game, but it’s actually the only system that creates positive sum outcomes the average person today is far richer than most kings in days past

@TomSteyer Redistribution and elite decision-makers is why we have the problems we do.

Working and middle-class households should be able to afford the transition to electric vehicles. That's why I'll triple the state EV tax credit to $600M.

I'm not fighting you. I am fighting to FEEL understood by you.

@StatisticUrban @h_thoreson Morality and justice aren't identical: feeding a hungry orphan could be virtuous or even obligatory in extreme "easy rescue" scenarios, but it doesn't create an enforceable claim that turns bystanders into servants.

At a certain point you simply have to say to the libertarians "no, wrong." An orphaned baby does in fact have the human right not to starve to death in the street. Any form of society that can't guarantee that right is bad.

@StatisticUrban A society built on compulsory labor (even for good causes) undermines the incentives that create abundance in the first place. Free markets and voluntary cooperation have produced the wealth that makes widespread starvation rare today

This isn't some niche thing, Murray Rothbard himself wrote this would be a consequence of his policy positions

@StatisticUrban @h_thoreson Real-world attempts to enforce positive "rights" tend to expand government power, reduce overall wealth (making everyone, including orphans, worse off), and crowd out voluntary solutions.

@StatisticUrban @h_thoreson In a free society, most people would support mechanisms to prevent tragedies —private orphanages, mutual aid societies, insurance pools, or family/clan obligations—because humans aren't purely selfish, & helping vulnerable kids often aligns with long-term self-interest.

"Learn to deal with the world as it is and not as you wish it was."

If Marxists believed their own rhetoric, they would either start a business to create wealth for the poor, or start a commune to share their property with each other. They do neither. Their rhetoric is a cover for envy and resentment.

@elonmusk Or... Let's get rid of TSA

I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country