
The myth of win-lose self-interest, dispelled.
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The myth of win-lose self-interest, dispelled.
The post Ayn Rand’s “The ‘Conflicts’ of Men’s Interests” appeared first on New Ideal - Reason | Individualism | Capitalism.
"There’s a quiet word baked into New Zealand legislation that’s been doing a lot more damage than people realise: bicultural. ...
"It’s the linguistic gateway for race-based privilege, mandatory consultation with iwi, spiritual red tape like karakia and 'wairua health,' and culturally enforced obligations that ordinary citizens are expected to obey — often at a financial or legal cost. ...
"It’s apartheid by paperwork. It's not inclusion — it’s a soft form of segregation, dressed up in government branding. The state keeps pretending we are a nation of 'two peoples.' But that’s not true. ...
"Anthropology makes this obvious. New Zealand law does not."~ John Robertson from his post ' Why the Word “Bicultural” Needs to Be Erased from New Zealand Law'
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. [my bold]It continues, but I want to note that the study of history is about both fact and interpretation. (Pseudohistory deals with excuses, which it pawns off as interpretation.)
Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.Its labor? The correct pronoun is whose, as in whose labor.
It advocates negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes insurrection and incendiarism in our midst.It is especially interesting when considering this passage, from some time later:
It seeks not to elevate or to support the slave, but to destroy his present condition without providing a better.Does this accusation also apply to runaway slaves? I have heard of people claiming blacks were generally better off under slavery. The slaves themselves didn't seem to agree, and chose uncertainty and danger over that lot.
[The Union (considered as a collective --ed)] has enlisted its press, its pulpit and its schools against us, until the whole popular mind of the North is excited and inflamed with prejudice.Excited and inflamed with prejudice! Schemes!
It has made combinations and formed associations to carry out its schemes of emancipation in the States and wherever else slavery exists.
... We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions of money, or we must secede from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this as well as every other species of property. For far less cause than this, our fathers separated from the Crown of England.So much for the quote from the Declaration of Independence -- which was every signer's death warrant -- that "we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
… these numbers understate the potential costs of the bill, since the legislation relies on a number of arbitrary expirations. Borrowing could rise by another $1 trillion – to $5 trillion or more – if temporary provisions were made permanent.Not only that: The CBO’s numbers also likely underestimate where interest costs will be after 'Big Beautiful Blob' throws its monstrous weight behind the damage tariffs will do to the dollar and simultaneously to the Treasury market because right now investors are still, as I wrote in my last Deeper Dive, hanging onto fantasies that more time for negotiation means more chance of tariffs coming down. That includes bond investors who have bought the bull. ...
~ David Haggith from his post '"Big Beautiful Blob" Keeps Getting More Bloated'