Then everyone is mystified by record highs in teen unemployment. The NYT has a passing reference to the minimum wage. One sentence. But the thought is a attributed to the American Enterprise Institute, which, everyone knows, is nothing but a lackey of the capitalist exploiting class where everyone is paid to say nice things about capitalism.
In the hundreds of emails I’ve received over the issue of intellectual property, the number one most common objection to doing without goes like this. We can’t subject the matters to free market competition. Some innovations are too easy to copy. Just one look or listen and the producer’s idea is taken from. Then another company that had nothing
In the 16th century, if you could transport it, whatever it was, from of one country and into another, there was no doubt that it could be consumed. There was free movement of goods and people, the age before planning and passports. Today, we brag about our free trade, our internationalism, our global outlook, but it is ridiculous. The world is
Among many great points Hans Hoppe makes in this outstanding interview : “intellectual property rights and real property rights are incompatible, and the promotion of intellectual property must be seen as a most dangerous attack on the idea of ‘real’ property (in scarce
It’s fascinating to look at the long-term trend of public regard for the media establishment. In the days of Watergate, three channels, the Cold War, and Walter Cronkite (oh what Hell it was to be alive then!), 3/4 said the media was trustworthy and only 1/4 said it was untrustworthy. Today, fully 57% say that major media is spouting baloney while
Just to add to the knowledge base, this is a real winner. You might have noted problems on the blog today. No one could figure it out. It was a mystery. Experts scratched their heads for 14 hours. Finally, someone noticed something odd. The error log was too big, over 2GBs. The sheer size was causing the errors which were being logged, growing the
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