Fernando Alessandri

Quod natura non dat, Salamanca non praestat... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

Patterns are more revealing than promises....

[Formula 1 @F1]

From the gravel trap to the lead of the race 💪

Nothing but 100% commitment from Kimi Antonelli

#F1 #ItalianGP

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

Por la Fuerza de la Razón.

[Voices of Liberty @FreedomVoL]

“If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.”

— Friedrich Hayek

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

"There is a great pleasure in life in getting deserved trust."
C.M.

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

@MikhailaFuller @jordan_m_fuller Well done. Welcome Francis Jordan Fuller

[Estado Mínimo @xestadominimo]

“La sociedad más libre es aquella en la que todas las relaciones entre las personas son voluntarias”.

- Murray Rothbard -

[Creative Deduction @CreativeDeduct]

One of the most dangerous ideas in politics is that good intentions create prosperous societies.

Bernard Mandeville, in one of the most scandalous and important books in intellectual history, argued almost exactly the opposite.

In his 1714 book The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Public Benefits, Bernard Mandeville told the story of a prosperous beehive where every bee was driven by vanity, greed, luxury and self-interest. The hive flourished with industry, trade, innovation and wealth precisely because of these private vices. Then, one day, the bees suddenly became virtuous and frugal. Demand collapsed, workers lost their jobs, and the once-thriving society descended into poverty and stagnation.

Mandeville’s provocative thesis was that what was often thought of as private vices often produce public benefits. Self-interested behaviour - when channelled through markets - creates far more prosperity and social cooperation than deliberate attempts at collective virtue or moral perfection.

This insight was revolutionary. It showed that the pursuit of personal gain does not lead to chaos, but to order and abundance. People working to satisfy their own desires end up producing goods and services that benefit others. Greed for profit drives innovation. Vanity fuels demand for quality and beauty. Self-interest, not altruism, powers the division of labour and economic progress.

Adam Smith would later refine this idea into the famous “invisible hand”. But Mandeville stated the uncomfortable truth more boldly: a society that tries to suppress self-interest in the name of virtue usually ends up poorer and less civilised.

The Fable of the Bees is a powerful defence of commercial society which reminds us that what left-wing moralists condemn as vice is frequently the engine of human flourishing.

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

“Without numerical fluency… you are like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.” C Munger.

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

@jg_valdes Un Gran Señor. Debio haber sido el candidato.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Visual representation of someone pretending to help whilst causing pain.

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

@MikhailaFuller 💫

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

Please walk me through your thought process...

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

At some point, the habit becomes second nature.

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

El discurso completo del Papa en el Congreso https://t.co/W0Q1eyBs3q via @YouTube

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

It's the constraints that force the creativity.

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

@USAmbCL @joseantoniokast Indeed.

[Jota @jota_snchez]

Richard Feynman ganó el Nobel de Física y dijo algo que dejó huella:

"La mayoría de personas saben muchas cosas. Pero no saben pensar."

Feynman dio una clase magistral de 1 hora sobre física e imaginación.

Sus 12 lecciones de vida:

1. La imaginación le gana al conocimiento

[Observatorio ALMA📡 @ALMAObs_esp]

📡ALMA revela que el cometa interestelar 3I/ATLAS se formó en un mundo mucho más frío que el nuestro.
Explicado por la Astrónoma, PhD @terepaneque
https://t.co/Vq0DHyM1rN

[Fernando Alessandri @Fdo_Alessandri]

@elonmusk The Ides of Mars.
Interesting views from the “jew, jew, jew,jew.”
Good read.