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In today’s Gilded Age with global warming, advocacy for socialism is on the rise, framed as a requirement to save our planet. But the idea that socialism can save us from ourselves has been tried before. It ended badly.
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Ayn Rand claimed to defend capitalism. So why were her heroes such terrible businesspeople with no idea how companies actually work and make money?
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Arguments against preventing another Great Recession by cracking down on banks' careless behavior are full of cherry-picking and bad faith.
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Capitalism will always be with us. We just need to learn how to use it, not serve it like an angry deity.
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Self-destructive greed is not good, especially self-destructive greed financed with public money.