Milton Friedman: “A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it…gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
@slackkejakke Because a classical music piece is supposed to be played in its entirety, whereas Rieu just picks the most iconic 5 minutes and plays that. It's a bastardisation of the whole piece. I'm not even going to address him playing film scores.
@batlle_star No resolvió el problema del milenio, solo un subproblema que surge luego de asumir ciertas propiedades del flujo. Sigue siendo impresionante, pero no sé resolvió NS
Mass migration changes the character of a society - duh! - not just demographically but politically. Opposition radicalises; state goes authoritarian to control the voters. Welfare state delegitimised.
Most of us opposed mass migration *in defence* of the old, liberal order.
@3Cebolla Lo más triste de todo es que AfD comenzó siendo un partido liberal-libertario anti la política económica del banco central europeo, cuyos mayores referentes eran todos economistas liberales y después fue cooptado por estos rancios que nada tienen de liberales
Es increíble lo dañino que es el peronismo en la cultura política. Por más buena que sea la alternativa, si un tercio de tu electorado vota consistentemente a un rejunte de lúmpenes populistas, es imposible avanzar.
"Quizás en algún momento de la historia usted me haya querido muerto a mí" le dice le dice un milenial judío con sobrepeso que labura de conducir un programa de streaming en tonito sobrador a un viejo solo por no apoyar a Perón.
Los peronistas no son humanos.
"Watching the ever-increasing costs of the welfare state in Britain and Sweden, we decided to avoid this debilitating system. We noted by the 1970s that when governments undertook primary responsibility for the basic duties of the head of a family, the drive in people weakened. Welfare undermined self-reliance. People did not have to work for their families' well-being. The handout became a way of life. The downward spiral was relentless as motivation and productivity went down. People lost the drive to achieve because they paid too much in taxes. They became dependent on the state for their basic needs.
We thought it best to reinforce the Confucian tradition that a man is responsible for his family — his parents, wife, and children. We used to face frequent criticism and attacks from opposition parties and the Western media, through their correspondents in Singapore, for pursuing such hard-hearted policies and refusing subsidies for consumption.
It was difficult to counter the seductiveness of welfare promises by the opposition during elections. In the 1960s and 1970s, the failure of the European welfare state was not yet self-evident. It took two generations for the harm to work its way through and be seen in lowered performance of individuals, sluggish growth rates, and growing budget deficits."
Lee Kuan Yew, From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965–2000 (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), 104.
europa tiene que ir full dark woke y deportar a cien trillones de inmigrantes y al mismo tiempo meter presos a le pene, la cúpula del AfD y a toda la derecha peronegra
There are lots of low-level crimes that our legal system presently ignores that, in terms of intent, are so heinous they should be treated like severe violent offenses.
This is a great example.
it’s kind of ironic that the French government better understands and captures the true aesthetics and ideals of America than the groyper weirdos at the White House posting cringe anti-American MAGAslop