5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History | ThinkProgress.
Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History | ThinkProgress
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What would you spend $200 million on?
11 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
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Clarifying the concept of envy & The Inevitability of Envy
09 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
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Envy is an emotion that is essentially both selfish and malevolent.
It is aimed at persons, and implies dislike of one who possesses what the envious man himself covets or desires, and a wish to harm him [the envied]… There is in it also a consciousness of inferiority to the person envied…
He who has got what I envy is felt by me to have the advantage of me, and I resent it. Consequently, I rejoice if he finds that his envied possession does not give him entire satisfaction – much more, if it actually entails on him dissatisfaction and pain… (Schoeck, pg. 20-21)
via Cosmic Autonomy: Clarifying the concept of envy & The Inevitability of Envy.
Chinese electricity production is based on fossil fuels
08 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
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The role of bribery in the developing world
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Who chooses to be a vegetarian?
06 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
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Benjamin Powell, In Defense of “Sweatshops”
29 Nov 2014 1 Comment
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The Role of Envy in a Free Society | Students For Liberty
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In a chapter entitled “The Envy-Barrier of the Developing Countries,” Schoeck details some fascinating anthropological work of the early and mid 20th century which reveals the presence of envy in less developed societies.
He cites the work of William Watson, an anthropologist who studied tribal cohesion of the Mambwe people of Northern Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) in the early 50s.
At the time, their culture was undergoing considerable change as they began to adopt a money economy and work in copper mines and nearby towns.
Watson writes about the experiences of men who had left their tribes to seek education in nearby missionary schools and to find work in the town’s emerging market economies.
The wealth that these men acquired was not exactly welcomed when they would return.
Rather, it was viewed by fellow tribespeople with suspicion and accusations of envious black magic, as any increase in an individual’s wealth was considered positively correlated with their ability to hurt their neighbors
via The Role of Envy in a Free Society | Students For Liberty.
Deirdre McCloskey on the false consciousness of the working class in the Age of Enrichment
25 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
Africa’s military spending spree
23 Nov 2014 Leave a comment
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