TK CTV on Nostr: The loss of millions of people's freedom to make their own decisions about their own ...
The loss of millions of people's freedom to make their own decisions about their own lives when an inequality of economic outcomes is replaced by far more dangerous increased inequality of power. Unequal economic outcomes nevertheless permit even the less fortunate to have rising standards of living. But power is inherently relative so that more power for some means less freedom for others.
In the world of words the hardest facts can be made to vanish into thin air by clever catchword or soaring rhetoric. in public discourse where slogans and images have far too often replaced facts and logic words have indeed become for somewhat Hobbs called them centuries ago the money of fools Often counterfeit money created by clever people our educational system which might have been expected to develop student's ability to cross-examine the facts as the great economist Alfred Marshall once put it has itself become one of the fountainheads of insinuations and obfuscations.
-Thomas Sowell Discriminations & Disparities
In the world of words the hardest facts can be made to vanish into thin air by clever catchword or soaring rhetoric. in public discourse where slogans and images have far too often replaced facts and logic words have indeed become for somewhat Hobbs called them centuries ago the money of fools Often counterfeit money created by clever people our educational system which might have been expected to develop student's ability to cross-examine the facts as the great economist Alfred Marshall once put it has itself become one of the fountainheads of insinuations and obfuscations.
-Thomas Sowell Discriminations & Disparities