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[BlameThe1st]

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[R.E.H.W.R.]

Wow.
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[AnCap Dave]

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[BlameThe1st]

Never imagined that I would submit an article from Big "Think" to Fav Quotes, but this article is win, win, win, win!

The Upward Spiral of Capitalism and the End of Poverty

I think the zero-sum worldview is the predominate one.  I think it's something we've evolved with this idea that there is a limited fixed pie and we have to distribute that pie in an equal fair way, that no one should get unfair large pieces of that pie and if someone is getting a bigger piece, necessarily someone else may be getting a smaller piece since there is a finite amount of pie to go around.  I also think it comes from our competitive sports, in that in competitive sports there is a winner and there is a loser. And so we play games, we play sports all our lives, so we've come to believe that in the zero-sum worldview that some are winners and some are losers and then we... in a just society then there should be no losers.  There should be... so we need to limit the pieces of the pie anyone gets, so that everyone can have a fair and just piece of the pie.

So I reject that.  I don't think there is a necessarily a fixed pie.  The beauty of capitalism, the beauty of "conscious capitalism" is the realization that the pie can grow, that through voluntary exchange and through the value creation that happens when the stakeholders voluntarily cooperate and voluntarily exchange with each other is that the pie grows larger. And so there is more to distribute and that distribution takes place through the market processes, through the exchange process as each of the traders of course wants to get a bigger piece for themselves and competition sort of ultimately determines the percentages that each of the different constituencies or stakeholders gets in the exchanges.

But that is a growing pie and it's a win, win, win, win, win game and that turns me on.  I'm very fired up and excited about that because it means human flourishing isn't trapped in some type of a limited set of constraints.  It means we can innovate and create our ways out of any of these traps, any of these sort of...  I can't remember or think of the phrase right now.  I'm trying to recall, but.... this idea that we're in some type of trap of limited resources and the only limitations we have are the limitations of human creativity, human imagination and intellectual capital that has been accumulated.  As we continue to gain intellectual capital and as human creativity is unleashed and human entrepreneurship is unleashed then the new innovations, the new creativity that expresses itself through the marketplace, through capitalism allows us to solve problems that previously were thought to be unsolvable and humans continue on the upward spiral.

[ArtemisVale]

I gotta remember not to never read the comments

[Dukect45]

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[Gumba Masta]

You do realise that the whole debacle in Detroid was probably caused by someone watching Robocop way back when thinking "Heck, I want my cyborg cop. That'll be cool." So they all would work thrice as hard to make suzre that their once proud city would meet the outset required of the movie.

[Dukect45]

You do realise that the whole debacle in Detroit was probably caused by someone watching Robocop way back when thinking "Heck, I want my cyborg cop. That'll be cool." So they all would work thrice as hard to make sure that their once proud city would meet the outset required of the movie.

Well instead of this Robocop


We get this one

[Lord T Hawkeye]

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Religious people ask what's our beef with them?
This!  This is our beef with them!

[Travis Retriever]

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Religious people ask what's our beef with them?
This!  This is our beef with them!

*standing oviation!*
Granted, Jesus *did* state that the old testament laws were not being abolished (Mathew 5:17 I think it was?) and there were those versus of bring the non-Christians to him and slay them before him, among others.  But yeah, the central point--of Christians and bias confirmation still sticks.  Very good video and glad to see one with Stef with his game otherwise on.

[Dukect45]

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[ArtemisVale]

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The beard is back

[Travis Retriever]

http://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/5-doctors-who-just-gave-worlds-worst-medical-advice/
Isn't govco doing such a good job protecting us from this kind of bullshit? Oh wait...

[BlameThe1st]

With the current national discussion over minimum wage, it seems as though Shane's explanation of why minimum wage hasn't risen with inflation (and why Sen. Elizabeth Warren is an "Idiot Extraordinaire" for suggesting that minimum wage be raised) is needed now more than ever.

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[Dukect45]

Here's some win for the Pro Wrestling fans here

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