Thomas Sowell on "inherited privilege" and merit:
Even with the best education and connections, outcomes differ. A brain surgeon's productivity dwarfs a carpenter's — that's why pay different.
People aren't paid for "merit" in the abstract.
And perfect equal probability of success? "I find it hard to even imagine."
Reality over slogans.
#ThomasSowell
Congratulations @ElonMusk.
Thanks to SpaceX's IPO, he's the first Trillionaire.
He didn't TAKE money from anyone. He CREATED wealth.
He launched satellites that connect even the poorest, most remote parts of the world.
Our world needs more MAKERS like Musk; fewer TAKERS like:
Miller: The West only achieved the place it did in human history because it spent previous centuries eradicating the criminal elements within its territories.
The older I get, the more I think Thomas Sowell was warning us about problems that many people simply didn’t want to see.
His ability to spot the long-term consequences of bad ideas is remarkable.
That’s why his words continue to resonate with so many people.
Thomas Sowell: "The founding fathers understood that power is dangerous, and they wanted ordinary people to have as much of it as possible.
Intellectuals today are the opposite, because they depend on their roles as Intellectuals to make a living.
The founding fathers had day jobs and they put that aside when the rebellion against Britain started, and to write up the constitution."
Thomas Sowell:
“What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail.”
“In so far as they fail, they receive the money. In so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”
Thomas Sowell: "Here is a man [Obama] talking about five different industries and none of which he has the slightest experience.
But because he has these degrees from the places you mentioned, and people have told him how clever he is, he now thinks he can do this.
Intellectuals of the green/environmental movement see themselves as the wise and noble, forcing the rest of us poor dummies to do what's right.
They are driven to power due to their ego, pride, and vanity."
(This was pre-Solyndra.)
Multiculturalism means embracing every other culture over the West’s.
Under the guise of “inclusion,” it acts as a Trojan horse that delivers the total erasure of Western culture in practice.
Every person and organization promoting it is an enemy of the West.
🚨 CNN reporter left STUNNED in live L.A. interview: “As a DEMOCRAT, you're voting Spencer Pratt?”
VOTER: I like his approach to homeless. As a person who was homeless myself. I was able to change my life, 10 years sober...his approach is REALLY good.“
Milton Friedman in 1968:
“The number of people on welfare has been skyrocketing.”
“Why? Because once they get on, we make it almost impossible for them to get off.”
Thomas Sowell: “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
“Capitalism was the only system in history where wealth was not acquired by looting, but by production, not by force, but by trade, the only system that stood for man’s right to his own mind, to his work, to his life, to his happiness, to himself.”
— Ayn Rand
Thomas Sowell on engineers vs intellectuals:
“The engineer is judged by the end product. If he builds a building that collapses, it doesn’t matter how brilliant his idea was—he’s ruined.”
“Conversely, if an intellectual has an idea for rearranging society and that ends in disaster, he pays no price at all.”