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If You Believe You Can Make A Living As A Writer, You Already Have Enough Ego.

In Contrast, Markets - Oft Mythologized As "natural" Are The Most Unnatural Things Going. Libertarians Will Tell You "market Laws Are Laws Of Nature", What Baloney. Markets - And The Other Great Modernist Cornucopian Tools - Are Magnificent Wealth Generating Machines, Built Ad-hoc, Through Trial And Error, Constantly Fine-tuned And Refined, Tinkered, Adjusted.

The Three Basic Material Rights -- Continuity, Mutual Obligation, And The Pursuit Of Happiness.

Self-righteous People Can Talk Themselves Into Forgetting They Are Part Of A Civilization. They Can Then Feed On That Culture, Bringing It Down. It's Happened Many Times In The Past. It Could Happen To Us.

Life Is Not Fair... Anyone Who Says It Is, Or Even That It Ought To Be, Is A Fool Or Worse.