• fmalafaya (53)in #life • 5 years ago

  Middle class life

  Life at the bottom of the middle class is pretty much the same as life at the top. Sure, at the top you get more, nicer perks. More, nicer cars; more, nicer houses; more…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #economics • 5 years ago

  Thank you for a better world, profits

  Capitalism and free-markets have delivered stunning results in the last two centuries. Life on Earth has improved dramatically, with the world of today being orders of magnitude…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #politics • 5 years ago

  Socialism: the biggest evidence of effective fake news

  The biggest evidence of the existence of effective fake news and propaganda is the fact that socialism is still widely praised as a good idea. image

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• fmalafaya (53)in #philosophy • 6 years ago

  The biggest collective illusion

  The biggest collective illusion is that we are civilized individuals. Civilizations are many-years-long constructions. Our civilized being is walking on top of those…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #life • 6 years ago

  Dodge the expert

  Too many people are given credit because of a title that has not been scrutinized. The best approach is to be skeptic every time you hear the word "expert". Too many experts…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #politics • 6 years ago

  Private property and chaos

  The recognition of private property is an antidote to chaos. In the absence of recognition of private property, tyranny is an antidote to chaos. image

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• fmalafaya (53)in #life • 6 years ago

  Parents and rebellion

  As self-defining as it may have been, there's a time when you see the foolishness of rebelling against your parents. There's a time when you kick your own ass for having done…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #life • 6 years ago

  Carpe diem!

  Carpe diem has a fatal flaw: It often makes each new diem worse. Until carpe diem just becomes impossible and stupid. image

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• fmalafaya (53)in #politics • 6 years ago

  Government and morality

  If you were obliged to decide between saving a child or an elder, who would you save? My guess is that the majority would pick the child, based on the argument that he or she…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #life • 6 years ago

  Rich or alcoholic, which enlightened do you want to be?

  If you raise to the clouds, you lose sense of practicality. Everything that can be translated into a task becomes unbearably boring. If you are to become enlightened, you…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #love • 6 years ago

  Love and compassion

  The secret to love is not passion, but compassion. Extreme compassion is called love. image

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• fmalafaya (53)in #philosophy • 6 years ago

  Unhappy happiness

  They say intelligent people are unhappier. This is because a number of reasons, from propensity to loneliness to awareness of the world's misery. But if these people were to…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #life • 6 years ago

  Building a past so you can die in peace

  When you're young, you live the present to create a future where you can create great present to become great past to remember in the farther future. As if remembering is your…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #life • 6 years ago

  Happiness and jobs

  Most people complain about being stuck to a job. They say life would be much more interesting if only they could do whatever they wanted. The problem is that "whatever they…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #freedom • 6 years ago

  Virus-like menace to freedom

  If: 1 - you support that an idea doesn't qualify as free speech AND 2 - you contribute to the normalization of a broader meaning/definition of that idea... ...you are not…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #economics • 6 years ago

  The road to socialism in predominantly capitalist systems

  In a system that is X% capitalist and Y% socialist, where X > Y, the problems derived from Y will always be used by socialists to justify more socialism. This is because…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #freedom • 6 years ago

  Centralize everything...

  ...in the individual. In every one of them. image

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• fmalafaya (53)in #politics • 6 years ago

  Power and cleverness

  People who think they are clever believe that it's only natural that they are able to decide better than thousands or millions of people that are "not so clever". They…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #economics • 6 years ago

  The rise of a new America

  At the rate I perceive young people are adopting crazy socialist ideas, I foresee the emergence of a new capitalist super power. This will be the new America, home of the free…

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• fmalafaya (53)in #philosophy • 6 years ago

  Morality - why it matters

  Natural rights are only natural in light of morality. Nature is a game of symbiotic rule of power. Morality is what gives humans the edge, which is translated into rule of…

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