One East Berliner told me there was not much difference between “freedom” in West and East Berlin because some workers in West Berlin had to commute more than half an hour by bus to get to work. Hence, they had no freedom.
In the 19th century, the common view of federal soldiers was "as slackers on the public dole" and people with "such a lazy life," as to be "certainly not worth their country's crying about."
The American cost of living is driven up not only by housing and healthcare costs, but by even larger increases in tax bills and government spending.
The fewer non-productive bubble activities we have, the better it is for those activities that actually crate wealth. But attempts to reverse deflation with new money creation only create new bubbles.
When it comes to addressing the popularization of socialism, the radicalization of academia is the lynchpin issue. If we could succeed in reversing that tsunami, many dominoes would fall.
Marxist G.A. Cohen is troubled by the freedom libertarians grant to property owners. But artificial limits are unnecessary when practical realities have so often intervened to limit property ownership by any one person.
It's not necessary to completely destroy capitalism to impoverish us irrevocably. The further a regime moves in the direction of the "egalitarian" states of the old communist world, the worse the impoverishment will be.
While some governments have sought to wage war against cryptocurrencies, Switzerland is striving to become a "crypto-nation."
From Oregon to Rhode Island, counties and municipalities have announced they will not enforce various state and federal gun laws.
The history of poverty is almost the history of mankind. The ancient writers have left us few specific accounts of it because they took it for granted. It was the normal lot.
