“Productive labor may render a nation poorer, if the wealth it produces – that is, the increase it makes in the stock of useful or agreeable things – be of a kind not immediately wanted.” – John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, p. 76 Try to start a business by promising to create lots of […]
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An insatiable American work ethic is what attracts immigrants to the United States. So, when Americans lament the arrival of would-be workers, they’re in a very real sense yelling at themselves. Work begets work. The excellent Barton Swaim has written in various ways that what turned the 2024 presidential election was electorate unhappiness on
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The ambitious of all stripes flock to where the economic growth is. Which is no insight. Where growth is greatest, so are wages. Consider what you’ve just read in relation to the photo attached to this opinion piece. It was taken by a colleague outside of a restaurant in Palo Alto, CA. Where wealth is
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Working recently in a manufacturing facility outside of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, Chandra Das entered a debate at the factory’s inspection table. Das, a Hindu, apparently made a negative comment with religious overtones. They were seemingly his last words. As New York Times reporters Saif Hasnat and Mujib Mashal described it, Das’s co-workers
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“Up north is where we’ve gotten the money for everything – to build houses, to take care of families, to sow in the fields. If they don’t send money, the town stops.” Those are the words of Rosa Gomez Hernandez, a 37-year-old resident of Mexican town San Bartolome Quialana, and whose ability to live
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Apple should be free to hire whomever it wants, and without regard to what its critics think. The previous assertion is about private property and freedom, but it’s worth adding that depending on the day, Apple is the most valuable company in the world. It’s something to keep in mind as the DEI police
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Highly emotional members of the left have been known to bemoan immense wealth. Possessing a fixed pie, zero sum view of the world, they imagine that wealth is taken as opposed to being created. Which speaks to one of the beauties of immigration for members of the right: it exposes the left’s beliefs about
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Last week Elon Musk made waves with his latest effort to promote automation on our roads and in our homes. Seeing the sleek taxicabs and helpful robots gave hope to some, while instilling fear in others. The fear is nothing new. In recent years there has been much hand-wringing about the possibility of man’s
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Last week the New York Times reported on labor unrest among the musicians at the New York Philharmonic, America’s oldest orchestra. Currently paid $153,504 annually, the players were agitating for a raise. The desire for more money has become particularly pressing as members of the Boston, Chicago and Los Angeles orchestras recently secured annual salary raises
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