Justification is a kind of subsidy, and produces, like all subsidies, more of what is being subsidized.
Jan 082021
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You never find people endeavoring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.
–Johnson
Dec 082020
What you see is, at most, what you get.
Dec 072020
Markets tend naturally toward monopoly in certain commodities, like diamonds, or ideas.
Dec 022020
A polity achieves decadence when the companies that help you make money make less money than the companies that help you spend it.
Sep 162020
An unexpected consequence of social media has been to make public begging respectable.
Aug 052020
Sound economic policy facilitates the parting of fools and their money.
Jul 272020
Employees see poker chips as money: entrepreneurs see money as poker chips.
Jul 162020
The biggest business in the world is allowing people to express thoughts and feelings that they are unable to articulate.
Jun 182020
A good product fills a need. A great product creates a need that can never be satisfied.
Jun 162020
Conspicuous consumption is followed inevitably by conspicuously inconspicuous consumption.