A while back, I stopped at a gas station in Luxembourg where owners of BMWs, Audis, and Mercedes go to fill up on slightly cheaper fuel. There was a street musician there with an accordion. He was playing …
It’s strange how rarely people consider that the most important of all virtues is the virtue of freedom—the capacity for freedom. As for the cardinal virtue, that is, the mind’s most important capacity, all manner of half-baked fantasies from around the world will do: …
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A while back, I stopped at a gas station in Luxembourg where owners of BMWs, Audis, and Mercedes go to fill up on slightly cheaper fuel. There was a street musician there playing the accordion. He was playing “Bella Ciao.” Central European street musicians …
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Traditional housekeeping is often associated with rural life. City dwellers may wonder how much time and effort it would take to make their own vegetable stock from fresh produce. “Housekeeping” is a poor term in this context. It should be replaced …
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Economics and price formation involve the activities of various actors in a free market. The objectives in a free market are incredibly diverse: they have different priorities, evolve in different ways, change, fade away, and are influenced by specific situations and emotions. Furthermore …
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The class struggle has flared up! The bourgeoisie’s cosmetic reforms didn’t help!The 200% Sunday bonus, which the left also supported all along, didn’t help; the constant raising of pensions, which the left also supported all along, didn’t help; housing subsidies for the middle class, which the left also…
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Italian actor Totò is quoted as saying, "With money, you can meet the people you want to meet. Without money, you meet the people who love you." This statement is not entirely wrong. In the everyday life of an ordinary person, lasting and ...
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The idea of a "deep fear of death" is a typical exaggeration and a typical extreme view. Of course, there is no empirical research to support this claim, and it is a bad mistake to try to force one's own world view to fit such a claim. It ...
