A market where government reaches in to decide who wins or loses is nothing more than crony capitalism, where wealth is not created by the value you create and the risks you take to get there but by a political system that rewards its
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“If our fear of free speech is that it facilitates the dissemination of bad ideas, then we have pre-emptively decided which ideas are beyond the pale. By doing so, we limit our own capacity to be challenged, and inadvertently reveal our existing prejudices.”
― Free Speech And Why It Matters
― Free Speech And Why It Matters
“This place is crazy.” “No,” Turnbull said. “It’s not crazy. It’s the opposite. There may not seem to be any rhyme or reason for what’s happening, but there is. Like I said, it’s all about power. Pay off this group, let that group have some latitude, then balance it against another group. It’s a balancing act. The problem is sometimes, in a balancing act, you can lose your balance and it all comes crashing down.”
― People's Republic
― People's Republic
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