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A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity by Luigi Zingales

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The median male in his twenties makes 19 percent less (in real terms) today than his father made at the same age, even when he is lucky enough to be employed.2

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Patrick Peterson

Thanks. Here is just one citation by Don, but he delivered a talk with some fantastic slides of many many products and their prices calculated in labor time from a 1970s Sears catalog compared with si…

17 Jun 19 · Flag

Drtaxsacto

Don has done a good job of attempting to equate apples to apples. My phone has thousands of more power than the IBM mainframe I did some of my graduate work on.

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Patrick Peterson

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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“Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is tragedy. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance creates lack. Ignorance creates disease. Ignorance will shorten your life. Ignorance will empty your life and leave you with the husks, nothing to account for.”
― Jim Rohn

tags: ignorance, wisdom

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