How you interact and what you say and do to other people is the only thing you are known for. People cannot know what you actually think. So what dish...
The small clip clearly shows how totally clueless Trump is. It's no wonder why so many that have had to try to explain Trump issues have said he is a ...
More likely Friedman is arguing that companies should not be obliged by the government to have other goals, like being actors that have to deal with i...
The insistence of seeing this as a racial issue, as a race problem than a class problem simply makes things worse. With class we can do something abou...
Or we simply are letting them drive the car as driving the car seems to be "racist and white privilege". Hence many will eagerly let anybody to drive ...
I agree. People who believe that the existing forms of power and control are the only ones will have difficulties in thinking that things could be dif...
We can do that, NOS4A2. Because we both aren't Americans, but do understand how important for Americans is the belief in the US: the belief in their c...
Well, don't blame Machiavelli for writing things as they were with power in his time. He made his most famous book for a genuine Prince, not the publi...
It is especially the philosopher types who fall for it. They are the first ones. Not all, but some. You only have to sprinkle a bit of a benign ideolo...
Btw, my father told me when I was young and living in the US (Seattle, actually) that if I would stay in the US for couple of years more, I would beco...
There's no inconsistency. And they are called not-for-profit organizations. As I said before, there's a differnce between .com and .org, just to give ...
The problem is that some hear dog whistles everywhere. Although they don't know anything about you, Asif, they have well fixed stereotype for you as y...
They will legally cease to exist when they file for bankruptcy. So you might say that is something close to your 2). I assume that surely nowhere is i...
Just think of time when Donald Trump as President feels as a far better option than the then current president. Yes, that can happen in the US. Better...
Well, to have the ability to make investments is very reasonable. Let's say that most companies intend to make a profit. Those wanting to not make a p...
I'm an optimist, DingoJones, the end is not here. The battlefield should be right here on this forum, but people are still getting only banned for the...
Hint: the other forms are not businesses. They doin't have a business model. Associations don't have business models, they have some agenda or some id...
I'll continue this thread from year ago, while the discourse still continues. Now it's not called decolonization of science but more straightforwardly...
Bernie Sanders jumping off a cliff to sacrifice himself for the younger generation or for the Biden/(and woman soon to be picked) Presidential run? Bi...
I personally think that a lot of the most pressing problems in our societies are more about class, about povetry, inequal distribution of wealth and o...
Isn't it obvious? A business enterprise has to make a profit or at least to cover the costs in order to exist in the long term. A business that covers...
And those incentives to choose to form a company, a corporation, are things like the limited liability of a corporation, the tax incentives, the ease ...
Seems like you are referring to two different articles or? But in any case, some questions for you, Banno: 1) What is the incentive for the owners of ...
Hi Tiff! Oh I was talking about the Finns. In fact it's very American to believe in self regulation. We Finns on the other hand are a very small count...
Umm... let's be honest: any Republican President will whup up hostile press. Yet just what this criticism is really makes the difference. With a more ...
There a huge discussion here if masks should be obligatory or not. Using a mask is quite rare here. People don't use them. I think this is it's unders...
Completely incompetent at leadership. Talking to his supporters he is good, but that simply isn't leadership. The thing is, if you raise the anchor an...
Yeah, he could also tweet out that he's thinking about a pre-emptive nuclear attack on North Korea. I promise that would also push aside the bad econo...
If you didn't notice it, the specific question was about what a private corporation/company can do about inflation. No. Friedman actually makes the po...
What is that degeneration of discourse here on PF? That's a good question. I give an example how I think of it. From time to time someone asks somethi...
More like the non sequitur criticism hurled at Friedman/economics: "You mean that economic theory assumes businessmen doing business? What about the g...
Re-tweeted by Trump??? Had to check, yeah, it's true. Quite confused old man, have to say. Or perhaps Germany simply is now surrounded by NATO countri...
I'm not accusing you, an administrator here, of having knee jerk reactions or I'm not declaring myself to be a paragon of courtly reason. I think that...
Critique how? Which side should I criticize? If I do them both, Americans will be just confused just where I stand. (That's the basic problem, because...
Blacks have been in the US for four hundred years and you have had slavery, so it's a bit different. Sweden hasn't had slavery (even if Swedish ships ...
Fdrake, for Americans their biggest threat is their antagonistic partisan ideologues dominating every sphere of policy discussion and hence crippling ...
I think that many refer also to the economic environment, or with minorities incarceration rates etc. Marriage and getting children is a financial iss...
First issue is naturally having an economy where people can get jobs and prosper themselves, that gives also the government that ability to have progr...
Unfortunately, few families voluntarily can choose that one stays home raises the children. At worst this view is depicted as being against women bein...
Sure. And in the way you describe it: Kindergartens, schools, grandparents and the extended family is of course very typical. And in many parts of the...
If Friedman is talking about the corporations role or social responsibility of countering inflation, that indeed is questionable. Do you really think ...
That wasn't my intention to say, so sorry if I made myself unclear. In this case there obviously is a clear case, the case of George Floyd and also mo...
Examples like both parents usually have to work are not arguments against the nuclear family in my view. Usually the argument is made for the nuclear ...
I think Friedman was very well informed about there being a public sector. For him the important role of the government was the following: Enforcing c...
I wonder why it is so difficult to report that there are a) peaceful protesters, those especially during the day who do follow curfews etc. b) protest...
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