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Autistic son mind bending life

[wayne forster @wayneforster11]

@GavinEvs Is that Nigel Farage

[West Lord @MyWestLord]

Milton Friedman held up a 10-cent pencil in 1980 and said 0 people on Earth could make it.

Not 0 people in the room. 0 people alive.

The wood came from a tree in Washington, and to cut that tree you need a saw, and to make the saw you need steel, and to make the steel you need iron ore pulled out of the ground by men who will never see a pencil factory.

The graphite came from a mine somewhere in South America, the eraser from Malaya, off rubber trees that aren’t even native to Malaya traders hauled those seeds over from Brazil with help from the British government, and then came the brass, the yellow paint, the black lines, the glue.

4 times on camera he says a version of the same line: I don’t know where this part comes from.

He isn’t hedging, he’s setting the trap.

Thousands of people made that pencil across 4 continents, speaking different languages, praying to different gods, and some of them would hate each other on sight if they ever met but not one of them woke up that morning wanting to make a pencil.

No ministry assigned them, no central office sent orders, and nobody holds the blueprint because the blueprint doesn’t exist.

You walk into a store and trade 2 minutes of your own life for a few seconds from thousands of strangers who will never know your name, and price is the only thing that arranged it.

Friedman didn’t invent the argument he lifted it from a 1958 essay called “I, Pencil,” written by Leonard Read in the voice of the pencil itself, and his only edit was to pick the thing up and hold it in his hand.

That’s the whole move: an abstraction shrunk down to 7 inches of wood.

46 years later the clip still travels because it never argues with you.

It just hands you a pencil and waits.

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@AMCTerrier He should get the England job

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@Idoboriryanjye Lunch bell

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@BBCWYS

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@NagleBall

[The Pitching In Northern Premier League @NorthernPremLge]

West Yorkshire bragging rights! 💪

@Emley_AFC win the NPL East Division play-offs, defeating Bradford (Park Avenue) on penalties after a goalless 120 minutes to earn Premier Division status for next season 🔥

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@KevinNagleMLS @mariehtfc You need to get the fans back

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@samuel_leeds £225,000

[TV Football 1968-92 @1968Tv]

ITV The Big Match
(Network Highlights)
January 1985
Huddersfield 0-2 Manchester City
Reporter John Helm
#htafc #MCFC

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@SkySportsNews Amazing congratulations well deserved

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@frankbrunoboxer 😂😂⭐

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@everymovieplug 2/10 what a letdown it's up there with the joker Folie à Deux

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@RoadCheltenham So sad

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@drhossamsamy65 No true

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@Norma5387953815 7581

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@PrestonTerrier @theposh 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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@bowers_bcafc12

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Good win town #htafc