You do agree that America bad though, right?

That wasn’t a car company, it was a Romanian state-owned enterprise known as ‘Poliția’

The food and car companies aren’t doing anything to stop this, either. I wonder if maybe we should open a company that is specialized in fighting crime.

What should be criminal is forcing private citizens to act as police officers and throwing them in jail if they refuse.

Any organization, including a socialist government.

Outstanding, thank you for this

Evil people are less constrained by morality and more capable of doing what is necessary to climb hierarchies. This can happen in any organización, not just business.

Hideous

Yes. I also consider forums to be social media, but the good kind.

That’s one of those facts that is made worse by knowing it.

Genie hasn’t responded for 30 seconds. Would you like to kill it?

This is the best one I’ve seen so far

Ok but what if you run into 2a people out in the woods. It’s like a catch 22, bro.

Because strident, belligerant activists don’t raise awareness, they just make people hate them. I’m sure there’s a generalizable lesson in here somewhere.

Joe Biden can’t keep getting away with this

Fair enough, don’t start with that article! Pinning his guy’s mistakes on the other guy is not a great look. I should have specified that his books on economics are where someone should look first, not his tabloid opinion columns. Friedman’s point about pencils was not that a command economy would be unable to produce them but rather that the free market produces them spontaneously, at low cost and in great quantity, of good quality and variety, with everyone along the way acting voluntarily and better off for having participated in the process. I don’t think an offhand comment about sand is really the best representative of his work. I think the quote from Children and Rights might actually belong to Murray Rothbard, but either way I disagree with whoever wrote it and think it’s a perfect example of someone following a generally good principle off a cliff.

That’s funny, I see large corporations as being similar to a planned economy, but bringing the same problems. Corruption is widespread and gets worse the more layers of middle management there are. Economies of scale are what save them. Internal goods and services are mispriced and misallocated because political considerations replace the price mechanism. Man, I really hated that part of my life.

Frankly, anything explicitly marketed to American conservatives these days is mostly ragebait for stupid people and I doubt you’ll find any of it the least bit convincing. As other have mentioned, Thomas Sowell is a great place to start if you want something serious but modern and clearly written. Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose or Capitalism and Freedom are both widely recommended classics. If you managed to read Marx without dying of boredom you should also be able to get through Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action or Socialism.

I thought your review of conservatism was very fair and balanced. I give it a perfect 5/7.

Once is happenstance, twice is a coincidence, three times is enemy action