We don’t usually make people better off by reducing their alternatives.
– David D. Friedman, Ph.D., Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
Danny Duchamp creates videos and essays on philosophy, economics and politics from a consequentialist libertarian perspective.
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https://youtu.be/5TlmL9IRtps Among the people many, in their desire to emerge from an almost unbearable tension, went so far as to say out loud that they wished the enemy would risk the attack. Foremost among them, Mr. Churchill found the waiting hard to bear. I can...
https://youtu.be/K3T-K0peaDo A second crucial point: society is divided into a ruling elite, which is necessarily a minority of the population, and lives off the second group — the rest of the population. Here I point to one of the most brilliant essays on political...
https://youtu.be/XWGl_VvbF5E The leading source of happiness is pleasant social interaction. - Dr. Bryan Caplan, Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better Book discussed: Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine: Essays on Living Better: https://a.co/d/iEhSSMw As a...
