Free enterprise and innovation have done more to uplift humanity from a state of poverty than any international aid or welfare program. Free markets are the reason there is enough wealth today to even contemplate a proposal like a universal basic income. https://t.co/Hmxb0NYb1k
If you are poor, it is substantially better to live in a freer economy. The bottom 10% of income earners in the freest countries make, on average, 7.9 times more than the poorest 10% in the least free nations. https://t.co/4n1kGm9ro2
Lest it be forgotten, in spite of the horrors of the 20th century, humanity has entered the new millennium more numerous, longer-living, richer, healthier, more educated and, even, more peaceful than ever before. https://t.co/En9uTFucE0
At this point I'm rooting for the Ice Zombies to win against all of these back stabbing, mass murdering, torture loving, incest freak hereditary assholes
Capitalism is one the most cooperative of human endeavors. Repeated transactions among trading parties encourage trustworthiness-- a moral side product of capitalism that we do not spend enough time talking about, let alone celebrating. https://t.co/TfbY1aQtbW
Pro tip for presidential candidates: Iowans' three favorite things are taking your ad money, watching you grovel and pander, and laughing about it later at Casey's.
These guys are incredible entitled. They’ve no clue how much prosperity they enjoy and take for granted their living standards. If it didn’t affect us all, I would wish they learn the truth about how lucky they are by taking it all away.
The internet has a recency bias.
Old ideas aren’t resurfaced enough. We’re obsessed with what’s happening right now.
Articles, blog posts, interviews, documentaries. You name it.
The world needs older ideas.
“Renewables require huge amounts of land, costly transfers of energy, environmental damage... depend on wind & sun that wax & wane independently of human needs
Nuclear, in contrast, is concentrated, consistent, & relied upon, rain or shine, windy or calm” https://t.co/5xWCwAkCKV
YOU FUNDED IT! A Pedal-funded study has identified a potential drug to target BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene tumors. “We were just asking a very basic question about how other genes regulate BRCA, and we stumbled across a potential drug target." https://t.co/Rkr85KRlD0
A 2018 black college student dressed as a 1980s white preppy college student dressed as a 1920s Jewish vaudevillian dressed as a 1880s black person would be the Kobayashi Maru of social media