No food, one problem. Lots of food, many problems.
Via http://www.econtalk.org/sebastian-junger-on-tribe/#comment-214278
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics, is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
From the following:
The good are not willing to rule either for the sake…
Link to comic.
All external changes of life’s forms that are not founded on shifts in consciousness not only fail to improve people’s situation but, by and large, worsen it. It was not government decrees that abolished child-beating, torture and slavery, but a change in people’s…
Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.
Herodotus (440 BC) via http://www.overcomingbias.com/2019/01/most-progress-not-in-morals.html
It’s nice to elect the right people, but that isn’t the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things.
-Milton Friedman, quoted in http://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-crony-capitalism/#delve-deeper
There’s an old story about a tourist who had been in New York City for about a week, and who had a sense of how New Yorkers responded to his questions. One day he went up to a New Yorker and asked, “Can you tell me how to get to the Empire State Building — or should I just go to hell?”
