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fmalafaya
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October 20, 2017
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fmalafaya
life
6y
Middle class life
Life at the bottom of the middle class is pretty much the same as life at the top. Sure, at the top you get more, nicer perks. More, nicer cars; more, nicer houses; more meals at nicer restaurants; etc..
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economics
6y
Thank you for a better world, profits
Capitalism and free-markets have delivered stunning results in the last two centuries. Life on Earth has improved dramatically, with the world of today being orders of magnitude better than it was at any
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fmalafaya
politics
6y
Socialism: the biggest evidence of effective fake news
The biggest evidence of the existence of effective fake news and propaganda is the fact that socialism is still widely praised as a good idea. image
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fmalafaya
philosophy
6y
The biggest collective illusion
The biggest collective illusion is that we are civilized individuals. Civilizations are many-years-long constructions. Our civilized being is walking on top of those constructions. Not all civilizations
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fmalafaya
life
6y
Dodge the expert
Too many people are given credit because of a title that has not been scrutinized. The best approach is to be skeptic every time you hear the word "expert". Too many experts build their reputation
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politics
6y
Private property and chaos
The recognition of private property is an antidote to chaos. In the absence of recognition of private property, tyranny is an antidote to chaos. image
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fmalafaya
life
6y
Parents and rebellion
As self-defining as it may have been, there's a time when you see the foolishness of rebelling against your parents. There's a time when you kick your own ass for having done it. There's a time when you
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fmalafaya
life
6y
Carpe diem!
Carpe diem has a fatal flaw: It often makes each new diem worse. Until carpe diem just becomes impossible and stupid. image
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fmalafaya
politics
6y
Government and morality
If you were obliged to decide between saving a child or an elder, who would you save? My guess is that the majority would pick the child, based on the argument that he or she represents, somehow, the future.
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fmalafaya
life
6y
Rich or alcoholic, which enlightened do you want to be?
If you raise to the clouds, you lose sense of practicality. Everything that can be translated into a task becomes unbearably boring. If you are to become enlightened, you better become rich first, otherwise
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fmalafaya
love
6y
Love and compassion
The secret to love is not passion, but compassion. Extreme compassion is called love. image
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fmalafaya
philosophy
6y
Unhappy happiness
They say intelligent people are unhappier. This is because a number of reasons, from propensity to loneliness to awareness of the world's misery. But if these people were to be given the choice to become
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fmalafaya
life
6y
Building a past so you can die in peace
When you're young, you live the present to create a future where you can create great present to become great past to remember in the farther future. As if remembering is your ultimate purpose in life.
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life
6y
Happiness and jobs
Most people complain about being stuck to a job. They say life would be much more interesting if only they could do whatever they wanted. The problem is that "whatever they wanted" includes an
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fmalafaya
freedom
6y
Virus-like menace to freedom
If: 1 - you support that an idea doesn't qualify as free speech AND 2 - you contribute to the normalization of a broader meaning/definition of that idea... ...you are not only anti-freedom; You are a
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economics
6y
The road to socialism in predominantly capitalist systems
In a system that is X% capitalist and Y% socialist, where X > Y, the problems derived from Y will always be used by socialists to justify more socialism. This is because, since X > Y, all problems
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fmalafaya
freedom
6y
Centralize everything...
...in the individual. In every one of them. image
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fmalafaya
politics
6y
Power and cleverness
People who think they are clever believe that it's only natural that they are able to decide better than thousands or millions of people that are "not so clever". They overestimate their cleverness
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fmalafaya
economics
6y
The rise of a new America
At the rate I perceive young people are adopting crazy socialist ideas, I foresee the emergence of a new capitalist super power. This will be the new America, home of the free, to where freedom-hunger
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philosophy
6y
Morality - why it matters
Natural rights are only natural in light of morality. Nature is a game of symbiotic rule of power. Morality is what gives humans the edge, which is translated into rule of law. The concept of morality
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