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Even More Econ

February 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Mike Meginis wrestling with an invisible hand:
Most minimum wage employees are absolutely essential to our economy and quality of life, not just because we exploit them to lower prices and perform undesirable tasks but because they do jobs that need to be done. Working retail sucks, but without retail there’s no manufacture, no entertainment, nothing […]

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Tenets of After Corbu: At Least It’s an Ethos

February 18th, 2008 · No Comments

From the comments:
My parents invented their our industry, a previously non-existant niche in the international market. This took over twenty years of endless work and sacrifice. If the government forced them to give parts of the company to their employess, tell me how that’s NOT wrong.
Explain to me why.
–Jeremy Clagett
A fair question. Let’s look […]

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Going off the Red End

February 7th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Mike Meginnis:
If the rich seriously will abandon our society, this society that has helped them so much more than they deserve, then there is a solution: simply pass a law limiting the amount of funds that can be taken out of the country. Refuse capital the right to steal resources gathered and made valuable not […]

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