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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
" The cost of protecting free speech is that you may hear that which irks your soul the most. The human mind is free and wild. For an individual to restrain it is discipline, but for another to restrain it is tyranny. "
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@Promythious Surely, you have not heard. It's the soil !! It's the freaking magic soil !! Just as different soils can make the same type of plant get a good harvest or not, the same way different soils can make men get strong political institutions or not. 🤪🤪
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Elewa FOR PRESIDENT
Elewa FOR PRESIDENT@Promythious·
@_Manueltin Toh!! “Prosperity is the function of rule of law and strong political institutions” I’m sorry, will these things drop from heaven? Did they drop from heaven for others?
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
"Xyzerians are smart and productive if you give them a good environment". Who else would give the Xyzerians a good environment if not themselves ?? If Xyzerians are truly smart, then environment-building is downstream of those traits.
Elewa FOR PRESIDENT@Promythious

Lots of Very Smart People have asked Poor Elewa to read Why Nations Fail, and realize that “IQ is fake”. However, strange thing; I read the book, and I see that they simply beg the question every single time. Let me show you something.

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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@Winter_Six 1) They say rubbish 2) It's countered 3) They claim it's "western propaganda" 4) They offer no defense for their claim 5) They start it again.
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
Carl Menger's "valuation" makes so much sense. No matter how many hours of labour, you've put in something, its value is dependent on how one sees it to the satisfaction of a need, else it's just useless or valueless.
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Carl Menger destroyed the labor theory of value in 1871 with a single insight: humans value goods based on their marginal utility, not the labor embedded in them. The same year, William Stanley Jevons in England and Léon Walras in France independently arrived at similar conclusions about marginal utility. Three economists, three countries, one revolutionary idea that shattered Marx's entire framework. Menger's "Principles of Economics" went further than his contemporaries by building economics from individual human action rather than mathematical abstractions. While Jevons and Walras constructed elegant equations, Menger asked the fundamental question: why does anyone value anything at all? His answer traced value back to human needs and the decreasing satisfaction each additional unit provides. The tenth glass of water matters less than the first when you're dying of thirst. The timing wasn't coincidental. By 1871, classical economics had painted itself into a corner with the labor theory of value. If labor determines value, why do diamonds cost more than water? Why do identical goods sell for different prices? Value exists only in the mind of the acting individual. No intrinsic value, no objective measurement, just human preferences ranking scarce goods according to their ability to satisfy wants. Menger's approach created the foundation for the entire Austrian school tradition that followed. Böhm-Bawerk used marginal utility to explain interest rates. Mises extended it to money and the business cycle. Rothbard applied it to ethics and political theory. Every free market economist since 1871 stands on Menger's shoulders. The establishment still teaches economics as if Menger never existed, preferring mathematical models to human action, aggregate demand curves to individual choice, and central planning to market processes.

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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@jodambusta Some days I see some marital takes on Twitter and wonder whether people are marrying their enemies. 🙂🙂
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@Winter_Six By the power vested on me by me, I proclaim it so !! We'd send a rider to get you your turban. 😌😌
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@Winter_Six Doesn't quite hit like Ayatollah Dawud Ogbeni 😅😅😅
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Manuel Lan
Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
Sorry, but why have I been seeing animal accounts so often? Have I become a digital snow white or are you all weird ??
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Manuel Lan
Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
Since people are responding to this quite well. I noticed you made a distinction between hegemon and empire which seemed to be ignored by most so I decided to compare the two and alas !! You are correct in making that distinction. A hegemon, not an empire.
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David Lambert@Winter_Six

Rome obviously. The US isn't an empire, they just have a fat navy and their currency is used to buy oil. Rome controlled all the land between the UK and Syria at their peak. That included wealthy places like Jerusalem, Greece and Egypt. They were a problem.

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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@kpesemi There's an area I might have concessions: The Philippines. Conquered and ruled as a colony under American law but not American citizenship. That's however, no more, so the argument still stands. 🙂🙂
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@kpesemi Still doesn't make it an empire. It incorporated those regions into itself. They were ruled by American law and were American citizens. This is incorporation or expansionist (something everybody has done) which is opposed to subjugation under Roman law but not citizen. But....
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@AerysTargIII @kpesemi Very correct. The problem is that for some time now words mean nothing. People just throw words around. Nazi, Fascist etc.
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@igboonaija3 Yes, it's not so bad but sha read the descriptions like 7 times. Ask other people to read it for you too. 😅😅😅
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Nillionaire.ts 🇳🇬
Nillionaire.ts 🇳🇬@igboonaija3·
Trying to buy something unique from Temu, but I’m kind of scared… Has anyone bought from Temu recently?
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@AerysTargIII @kpesemi Exactly !! Britain or Rome could change things in their subject territories without a care, but if America wishes to change things in Mexico, Washington cannot dictate it like that. Instead DC will use other means to get shit done.
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@kpesemi It would be an Empire if it conquered, say Mexico, and co, and subjected them to its rule. America is a Hegemon not an Empire because although countries in its hemisphere and beyond are influenced by her, Washington doesn't dictate their rule or policies. Influence≠Dictate
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Neon Guts 🌌
Neon Guts 🌌@kpesemi·
@_Manueltin How doesn't it fit?😂 Its territories straddles two Oceans, governs very diverse people under one authority, can project military might easily anywhere in the western hemisphere.
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Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@kpesemi 😐 1) A large territory ≠ Empire 2) Diverse people. Are they not all Americans thus implying one nation?? Surely, you do not think a Syrian (there were exceptions)under Roman rule was regarded a Roman, right?? 3) A hegemon will use might to back its soft power. No qualms here.
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Manuel Lan
Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@kpesemi Another thing: That America has been falsely called " an empire " whether by literature of repute or not doesn't diminish the falseness of the use of that name.
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Manuel Lan
Manuel Lan@_Manueltin·
@kpesemi An empire IS a hegemon, but a hegemon doesn't necessarily have to be an empire. Look at the definitions of "Empire". America really doesn't fit it.
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