There is no such thing as "excessive profits". On the free market, the greater the profits a company earns, the more efficient it is at serving its customers.

Milei at the World Economic Forum

The more we automate with programs and machines, the more we are freed to do that which is uniquely human: to think.

“If your purpose is to make someone happy, you’re more apt to succeed if you make yourself the object. You’ll never know another person more than a fraction as well as you can know yourself.” — Harry Browne, How I Found Freedom In An Unfree World

It's better to speak in terms of individuals and not a "society". It's better still to speak in terms of ideas and not individuals.

A parochial answer for why a society collapsed could be “because of the weather” but the deeper explanation for its fall is a lack of knowledge. We don’t want to be like all the societies before us that failed to create the necessary knowledge to save themselves in time.

Currently reading: Pandenomics: La economía que viene en tiempos de megarrecesión, inflación y crisis global by Javier Milei [Pandenomics: The Upcoming Economy in Times of Megarecession, Inflation, and Global Crisis]

They think memes are just funny pictures on the internet.

Disobedience is good, actually.

My conversation with David Deutsch. We talk about free-will, Taking Children Seriously, anarcho-capitalism, and much more.

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My conversation with David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf). David is the author of The Fabric of Reality and The Beginning of Infinity. He is known as ...

Just finished recording a podcast with David Deutsch about free-will, Taking Children Seriously, anarcho-capitalism, and much more. Can't wait to publish this one.

"Nobody is needy in the market economy because of the fact that some people are rich. The riches of the rich are not the cause of the poverty of anybody. The process that makes some people rich is, on the contrary, the corollary of the process that improves many peoples' want satisfaction. The entrepreneurs, the capitalists and the technologists prosper as far as they succeed in best supplying the consumers." — Ludwig von Mises, The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality (1956) #capitalism

Mises on why people ask for socialism in The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality (1956):

Merry Christmas! What an incredible year.

"Taxing profits is tantamount to taxing success in best serving the public." — Ludwig von Mises, Profit and Loss (1951)

why do people say “happy holidays” instead of “merry christmas”?

Found trending on Twitter earlier today!

midjourney v6 is incredible

This is why I’m working on Airchat