This bit resonated.

It makes me so terribly sad that in a society such as ours the wealthy keep creating new means to harm the less lucky.

That aside, Alan Kholer has also opined in the past that our economics policy is based on disdain.

I know many will read my financial experiences and see failure. I haven’t failed; I succeeded when the odds were totally stacked against me. I made good what life threw at me. I survived … with my values intact.

I can only agree.

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    🙄 There are positions between radical freedom and behaviourism.

    If I break your legs you can’t choose to walk, whether or not you have a self causing free will.

    I feel massive contempt for people who think themselves so clever that if they don’t see nuance in an argument it means the other party is wrong.

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      If I break your legs you can’t choose to walk, whether or not you have a self causing free will.

      The discussion is about wealth, not walking. If you break my legs that may inhibit my ability to work in certain fields, but it does not completely prevent me from obtaining money.