first, a vocabulary fix: “stand out from the crowd”: this applies only if you belong for the moment to an uneducated the crowd; if the crowd is educated, you want to belong to it; whatever your status is, this expression is a bootstrap proposal. “market knows better”: If A can’t predict B, then of course [...]

I was arguing a few days ago that adding to your State’s Constitution a provision which limits the total wealth of a person to the necessary for a human lifetime would naturally limit corruption or criminality. Examples in favor of this proposal abound, the most recent one is the plot to kill Morales, the current, [...]

tablou’ ăsta, Varujan, cum că soluţia e un soi de capitalism, are câteva probleme majore: 1. postulatu’ agresivităţii naturale a omului omul e rezultatul combinaţiei dintre educaţie şi biologie, asta nu’l face mai agresiv decât, de ex., blond…depinde ce’i bagă’n cap familia, societatea. omu’ are în schimb o proprietate: e dotat cu un creier; d’aci [...]