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NYT Economist Paul Krugman and Atlas Shrugged Bureaucrat Wesley Mouch Wreak Economic Destruction

May 1, 2020

Every mediocrity with the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors, is the foulest of creatures. The double-parasite who lives on the sores of the poor and blood of the rich, whom men have come to regard as the moral ideal.

We Can’t Pause The Economy As If It Were A Machine. We’re More Likely To Kill It, Because It’s An Organism.

April 30, 2020

The economic process is just like an organism, it must change and evolve. Consumers' variable and changing situations demand it. There are only two ways this process can go: progress or demise. To 'pause' this process is akin to killing it.

Modern Poetic Justice Warrior Lara Logan Does Have An Agenda – Principles

April 29, 2020

What I can control is the work that I do. To date nobody has tried to make me do anything other than that. Nobody. I want to say this loudly and clearly to anybody who is listening. Nobody owns me. I'm not owned by the left. I'm not owned by the right.

Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No.

April 28, 2020

The correlation coefficient between deaths per million and the speed and degree of imposition of shutdowns was 5.5%—so low that the engineers I used to employ would have summarized it as “no correlation” and moved on to find the real cause of the problem.

Politicians Did This. Their Choices To Restructure Society Have Resulted In Desperation For Many Americans.

April 27, 2020

It should be stressed that the U.S. economy was until recently the world’s most dynamic precisely because emotional puddles like Marco Rubio were not making “choices about how to structure our society.”

A Society That Fails To Encourage Entrepreneurship Is Producing Negative Human Capital.

April 26, 2020

Although there is a proliferation of goods and services brought…

How To think About Science And Scientific Studies In The Age Of Coronavirus.

April 25, 2020

Scientists are and should be skeptical, critical, and even unconvinced. They should disagree. It is how our accumulated knowledge grows and is refined. Unfortunately, society has adopted a form of unreflective and normative scientism in which science is assumed to immediately have all the answers.

Our Economic Recovery Will Be A Race Between Smith (Adam), Schumpeter (Joseph) And Stupidity (Government).

April 24, 2020

Adam Smith long ago recognized that individuals can find workarounds and ingenious ways to realize gains from trade and gains from innovation even in the presence of what he identified as hundreds of impertinent obstructions which human folly may put in the way.

Welcome To the Great Reset. Start Managing For Perpetual Change.

April 23, 2020

Automate to enhance, not replace. Help workers develop superpowers, reducing the amount of mundane work and increasing their ability to solve tomorrow’s problems. Get inclusive. The least prepared are the most vulnerable. Stop hiring your traditional profile, and prize the transferable skills of your non-traditional candidates. Psychological diversity wins.

Poetic Justice Warrior Douglas Engelbart Bootstraps Individual Production to Collective Knowledge

April 22, 2020

The Mother of All Demos was presented by Douglas Engelbart 52 years ago in San Francisco. Its goal was to show how technology could augment the capabilities of the human mind. For the first time in the history, the windows graphic user interface, hypertext, display monitor, word processing, file linking, keyboard and mouse were on display.

Progressives Think They Have The Catastrophic Event They Were Hoping For To Destroy Free Market Capitalism.

April 21, 2020

Historian Sean Wilentz made clear the thinking of those who wear the label “progressive". They harbor the hope that one day, perhaps through some catastrophic event, American capitalism will indeed be replaced by socialism – a discredited system of public property and social ownership. For many, if not all, progressives, that “catastrophic event” is happening right now.

Work Is Happiness, So Politicians Destroy It.

April 21, 2020

The problem yet again is that politicians on all levels panicked, and having panicked, they foisted cruel, one-size-fits-all solutions on their constituents that resulted in sick-inducing job loss and bankruptcy. In the process, they robbed millions of what gives them daily meaning and happiness.

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Raushan Gross: Socialism Cannot Work, Not Even in an AI-Driven Economy

The Right to Repair: Shouldn’t Americans Have the Right to Fix Their Own Stuff?