Peter Thiel: Maybe you should think of wokeness as hyper Christianity.
Arjun Khemani
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Gossiping with Per Bylund in between lectures at #MisesU 😁 
Just bought some books from the Mises Store with #bitcoin, thanks to your zaps! 
You Are The Carbon They Want To Reduce 
I just bought some books from the Mises Store with BTC, thanks to your zaps!
Renato Moicano spotted at Mises Store 
Thank you Mises Institute! 
DEI, in practice, stands for Didn’t Earn It.
Start them young! 
The end goal of #Bitcoin 
“Improving genes by biological evolution requires vast numbers of individuals to die for every scintilla of progress made. But the ability to encode whole new patterns of behavior and to pass them on by cultural means finally disconnected progress from death.”
— David Deutsch
Free markets produce unequal prosperity.
Socialism produces equal misery. 
I am once again asking you to 
Johan Norberg: The worst environmental problem is really a lack of technological capacity because, in that case, we're going to have to use everything, every resource, just to stay alive.
To me, one perfect illustration—an unfortunate illustration of this—was the pandemic. If you think that degrowth is the solution to global warming, then the pandemic was your perfect example. You should be able to point to the pandemic and say, "That's what we're going to do." Because suddenly people were forced to stay at home. They weren't allowed to go to work. We blocked. Not a single airplane took off. So we really had reverted back to degrowth. And that was obviously a disaster for mankind.
Over a single year, 70 million people were thrown into poverty. But more than that, it didn't help the planet one bit. On the contrary. It only reduced carbon dioxide emission during the first pandemic year by 6%, no more than 6%, which means that if it were to just reach the Paris climate accords by doing less, we would need something like a pandemic every year until 2030, without any rebound in between, which would obviously be a nightmare for humanity in terms of life and health. But it won't help us with the environment.
It will help us with one particular bit of it: no carbon dioxide. But what should we do then, to grow our food and create the kind of things that we need? Well, we would need to use the resources that are there. We won't be able to create new and better and smarter ways of creating resources in an environmentally friendly way.
I love this response by Elon Musk to those who say the world would be better without people in it:
Elon Musk: Generally, you want education to be as close to a video game as possible, like a good video game. You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day.
So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling and far easier to do.
You really want to disconnect the whole grade level thing from the subjects and allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject. It seems like a really obvious thing.
Most teaching today is a lot like vaudeville, and as a result, it's just not that compelling. It's like somebody standing up there and lecturing to you, and they've done the same lecture several years in a row. They're not necessarily all that engaged in doing it.
A university education is often unnecessary. That's not to say it's unnecessary for all people, but I think you probably learn about as much in the first two years. Most of it is from your classmates.
For a lot of companies, they do want to see the completion of the degree because they're looking for someone who's going to persevere and see it through to the end. And that's actually what's important to them.
So it really depends on what somebody's goal is. If the goal is to start a company, I would say there's no point in finishing college.
I’ll be attending Mises University 2024 next week! Who else will be there?