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Economics For Entrepreneurs: Your Income Is Determined By The Scarcity Of Your Contribution, Not By How Hard You Work Or Your Worth As A Person.

April 24, 2019

Scarcity is not just a matter of how much there is of something (supply) but also considers how much people want something (demand). The higher the price, the greater the scarcity. The lower the price, the lesser the scarcity.

How A.I. Will Create A New Era Of Entrepreneurship, And As Much Meaningful Work As We Demand.

April 23, 2019

What has to change? The way we write algorithms. More specifically, the demand for purposeful work and meaningful lives must drive the producers of algorithms to new forms and designs - algorithms with different goals and functions than those that are common today.

Bernie Sanders Makes Money Via The Capitalist Way: Rewarded By The Market For His Unequal Skills.

April 22, 2019

By writing books, Bernie made a lot more money than any truck driver who delivered his books to stores. He made a lot more than any factory worker who assembled the books. Does Sanders believe he took advantage of these workers?

On Earth Day, Don’t Believe The Gloom-And-Doomers. Everything Is Getting Better, Including The Environment.

April 21, 2019

Here’s more good news. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, “Between 1970 and 2017, the combined emissions of the six common pollutants (PM2.5 and PM10, SO2, NOx, VOCs, CO and Pb) dropped by 73%.”

Wouldn’t You Want The Purchasing Power Of Your Dollar To Be Stable And Predictable? That’s Called The Gold Standard.

April 20, 2019

Stated simply, gold-standard proponents seek a dollar that is widely trusted as a constant measure of value. Nothing more. Nothing less. Unknown is why a desire to revive money with stability top of mind has so many so up in arms.

Trump’s War On Socialism Is A Call For Individualism, Which Neither Democrats Nor Republicans Will Deliver.

April 19, 2019

The opposite of Democratic Socialism is not Republican Party policy, it is entrepreneurialism based on individual choice and individual action. The normal conduct of society is the continuous adaptation of individuals to each other’s needs. Socialism is, in fact, anti-social.

Shall We Regulate Google, Facebook, Amazon & Twitter? No. Market-Based Creative Destruction Will Do The Job.

April 18, 2019

Schumpeter’s first lesson: Change happens - but only in the right policy environment. Schumpeter's second lesson: Incentives matter. Entrepreneurs will continuously drive dynamic, disruptive change, but only if public policy allows it.

The Father of The Information Age And The Socialist State’s Resistance.

April 17, 2019

Like all great entrepreneurs, Lloyd best understood the needs of his customers and created innovative ways to serve those needs. Like the world wide web, he was open for business everyday, day and night. Lloyd knew better than anyone that the most important service he could deliver to these particular customers was information.

Notre Dame de Paris – It’s Up To Us to Preserve Its Spiritual Symbolism of Beauty and Peace

April 16, 2019

Victor Hugo asks, "Who set cold white panes in place of that stained glass of gorgeous hue? An architect, on the plea of good taste, amputated it." And one might also ask, what has become of the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution, the one that guarantees federalism? Our progressive masters, on the plea of the common good, amputated it.

Pete Buttigieg Doesn’t Believe In Capitalism, Individual Rights Or Private Property.

April 15, 2019

The Democratic Party’s latest flavor of the week, Pete Buttigieg,…

Ray Dalio Has Made His Pile, So Now He Wants To Change The Rules.

April 14, 2019

Dalio's recent article titled "Why and How Capitalism Needs to be Reformed" is a mess, though to be clear it's a thoroughly well-intentioned and heartfelt mess. It's a mix of self-effacement, dubious statistics concerning the non-problems of wealth and income inequality, and utterly unoriginal, counterproductive proposals for government action.

Trump’s Laudable Strategy Of Values-Based Alliances With Self-Reliant, Self-Determining Nations.

April 13, 2019

Having subsidized the creation of a dependent socialist paradise in Europe, the U.S. now has to watch as the EU’s malign influence washes over America and other nations via international bodies, universities, nongovernmental organizations, multinational corporations and other channels.

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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?