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Why am I a capitalist? Because I'm humble. Everyone who believes in nativist economics or socialism makes God-like assumptions about their ability to understand the world. I make no such claims. Accepting the free market is about knowing limitations. richardhanania.com/p/the-humble-c…

@PunishedKebbin @HelleLyngSvends @narendramodi The rarity of such things would have made it an event.

The only person who has propelled @HelleLyngSvends into stardom is @narendramodi and no one else. Had he regularly taken difficult questions from the media, what happened in Norway would have been a non-event.

@RishiJoeSanu I'd do that on weekends to augment my pay without hesitation.

₹3500 per day for picking pineapples. Only in Kerala.

@IndoKatholic @KrishKrushik Non-veg is odd. A meat eater has A normal diet. People with normal diets (eat most foods) have started defining themselves as not having some restriction. No one says I'm "non-vegan". Meat eaters should just say I'm normal instead of I'm non-vegetarian.

@KrishKrushik What? What is Non-Veg according to you then?

After eating this, I can declare that Kochi is the best city for Non Vegetarian food ANYWHERE in India!! Oh my God, this Turkish Kebab was absolutely awesome!!😭 Gonna come back from Bangalore just for eating man...

Development organically brings welfare. We do not need dedicated welfare schemes in addition to economic growth, especially after commies drowned Kerala in debt.

Thatcher haters annoy me because they all dislike her for the wrong reasons. The coal miners were a terrorist outfit who wanted to be paid forever. People just do not grasp how malignant, how cancerous, how parasitic, the trade unions were.

@Tusharufo2 Sure. I misunderstood then.

@Tusharufo2 What if I bought that land from the tillers? Then it is mine. I can now be absent with the legitimate right to exclude. The question is only the legitimacy of title. Not present or absent landowner

@Tusharufo2 What is an absentee owner? If I buy land and want to hold it as a speculative asset not for actual use why shouldn't that be allowed? The idea that I need to actively use my land to retain an ownership claim is absurd. Homesteading is only there for unowned land.

Most of Africa had an economic lead over China not long ago. The leaving colonial nations left behind railroads, irrigation, and other infrastructure in Africa that China wasn't blessed with. Now China has the lead.

“The power that a millionaire has over me is much less than that of the smallest bureaucrat who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose discretion it depends whether and how I am to be allowed to live or to work.” — Friedrich Hayek

The average American today lives better than John D. Rockefeller did in 1926. That is not an exaggeration. It is a fact. Rockefeller could not fly across the country in five hours. You can for $200. He could not video call his family from another continent. You do it for free. He had no antibiotics, no MRI, no air conditioning in July. He could not carry every book ever written in his pocket. You are reading this on a device that does all of that and more. Americans throw away 30-40% of their food. Not because they are wasteful, but because food is so abundant that waste is affordable. Your car has climate control, navigation, and safety systems that did not exist at any price a century ago. Your home has heating, cooling, refrigeration, and entertainment that emperors could not have imagined. None of this was voted into existence. None of it was redistributed from the rich. It was created by free minds operating in what remains of a free market. Every comfort you enjoy today is the product of a man who thought, invented, produced, and traded voluntarily. This is what the remnants of capitalism still deliver, even while it is being dismantled. Imagine what a fully free society could build.

Capitalism creates prosperity

2026 is the 250th Anniversary of four key things on which our civilisation rests: 🇬🇧 James Watt’s steam engine (start Industrial Revolution) 🇬🇧 Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (free market economics) 🇬🇧 Edward Gibbons Decline & Fall (recovery from the collapse) 🇺🇸 Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence (created a new branch for Western civilisation to flourish within) 1776 - a banger of a year for publishing….

“A sign of development for a country is in the lack of prestige for government officials.” ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

@Sreehari_1992 @RishiJoeSanu Everyone has a right not to work. But they do not have a right to pay for not working. No right to not be fired for not working. No right to stop others from working.

@RishiJoeSanu Every liberal has a problem when there is a strike. If people have the right to work they should have the right not to work.

Nursing wages should be set by market forces, not the vibes of random people on Twitter.

One of the many problems with leftist economic analysis is they view creative destuction as a wholly bad thing. Failing companies shutting down and unproductive workers being fired may hurt in the short term, but it's absolutely necessary in the long term

Why is the US so much wealthier than Europe? If there's one statistic that explains it, it's this: Americans are ten times more likely than Germans to be fired in any given year. I argue that America is wealthier because it has weaker labor protections. richardhanania.com/p/labor-freedo…

@cafreiman Especially produce miracles

As bleak as our political situation is, it’s worth remembering that commerce continues to produce miracles.

Do people in North India know that you can just learn English, and you can talk to people around the world?