If we want to have all of these environmental and labor laws to protect our people, we cannot just throw our workers right back under the bus by buying cheap goods from nations that use slave, labor and toxic lakes. We are worsening the problems of climate change and human trafficking and slavery by adding long distance shipping to it and hiding it out of sight.… read more “We badly need tariffs on everything”
In his memoir Palace Gate, WWII and Vietnam pilot Richard Brown reveals a gut-wrenching truth about post-war Vietnam:
When he returned a decade after the war, the corrupt monarchy hadn’t been “liberated.” It had simply been replaced by an even more corrupt communist politburo.
The common people were still peasants. The elite were still kings. You see this pattern in every socialist state from Cuba to Vietnam—they collapse into aristocracies with a ruling class and a peasantry.… read more “Palace Gate”
People who want to book themselves in jail for a period of time should be allowed to do so. Jail should not be a nice place, but sometimes a person like the woman who murdered her own children need a way to protect other people from themselves.
https://youtube.com/shorts/9PwuaQnjIJw?is=QzTm0RA1ORiP45jy
The 5th Amendment says the government cannot take your private land without paying you full market price. But bureaucrats found a loophole, and it is costing local landowners millions.
I just spent ten hours digging through 116 official public permit files. What I found in the county’s own records is infuriating.
Over 1,200 acres of private property have been effectively stolen through forced deed restrictions.… read more “1200 Acres Stolen”
You only have free choice before you get addicted. After that, free choice is gone.
Your physiological reward pathways get hijacked. Your brain gets rewired. You become a literal prisoner to a substance, stripped of the ability to make a healthy choice. Addicts don’t stay trapped because they are weak people—their biology has been taken hostage.… read more “Addiction destroys choice”
https://youtube.com/shorts/8pvF3LQp66Y?is=7lzHvg3Mn-dXjSBH
Sane people with a million dollars buy a luxury sports car or a yacht, I bought acres of dirt, diesel-guzzling tractors, and a hundred cows that actively plot their escape every morning.
You know how to make a small fortune in farming? Start with a large fortune. Most guys have a midlife crisis and buy a Porsche or go to Hawaii.… read more “Sane people with a million dollars buy”
https://youtube.com/shorts/t4UFY-XbohA?is=s_PwSLOHbPUB-dUc
Free markets reward those most who choose to invest in things that help other people. Dollars are just tokens of favor. For example, if I had bought a fancy car when I made my first big chunk of money, that car would have made me happy but would not have made other people happy. Therefore those other people would not have given me tokens of favor / dollars and I would not have any more money.… read more “Stop thinking about dollars as money”