Steve Maughan

🇬🇧🇺🇸 Christian Classical Liberal interested in true freedom for all (will block those who resort to mudslinging personal insults)

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@Zaira583642 1975

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@Write4Republic Because they hate themselves

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@mattvanswol Amen — what an amazing guy!!

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@MaxUtilitarian @Handre But they cannot measure the micro changes in demand

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@MaxUtilitarian @Handre The Left will counter this with: using technology (cellphones, watches etc) and AI, we can harvest the disparate patterns of everyone, even if they are not conscious of them, and therefore we can manage society for a better outcome.

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@PerBylund I too doubt the prediction. Google made knowledge free, but people are no more knowledgeable. AI may reduce the cost of creativity but I doubt the average person will become any more creative. But certainly the people who are naturally creative will be more creative (and richer)

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@the_jefferymead It’s even more bizarre in the age of robotics and AI

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@ZubyMusic They are — age 4 is peak humor (IMHO). At this age they have pieced together a view of the world that is often slightly wrong in the most subtle but hilarious ways

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@ZubyMusic Fahrenheit or Celsius 😆😆😆

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@DanielPriestley This will be the epitaph of MMT’s Job Guarantee scheme. It will be “activity without productivity” since the only metric of success is that there is a job to done

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@Odin2001iom Two questions: what level of inflation is acceptable (zero?); and who takes responsibility if they get it wrong?

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@Handre @RockChartrand takes my nomination. He relentlessly counters Socialist posts with solid philosophy, ripping the foundations from beneath their arguments

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@DanielPriestley Absolutely true. As a consultant, my workflow has changed more in 2026 than in the last 30 years due to AI (specifically Claude Code), and I estimate my productivity is x3 to x7.

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@TheAliceSmith And the Good Samaritan didn't go and get a Roman when he saw the man beat-up at the side of the road

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@TimePreference_ I agree. People find it difficult to image a world without patents but image if food was patentable. Image someone owned the patent on burgers and you could only get a burger from one establishment. This illustrates the growth killed by patents

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@TimePreference_ It’s one of the few areas the Founders got wrong.

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@HenricCont @mmt_action @d_magpie This is a great example of a post MMT industry. Lots of guaranteed jobs and lower productivity. The core problem for MMT goes back to Mises economic calculation — the state cannot efficiently allocate resources without a free market

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@DanielPriestley A major factor is the size of the State. The State is chronically inefficient. With a higher fraction of GDP going through the State, the whole economy is operating evermore inefficiently. Effectively the car is getting bigger, and the engine is getting smaller