Does your system of knowledge contain the concept of a “better catastrophe?” Well apparently POTUS’s does.
Tag: government
Cognitive Bias #4 — Overconfidence
Self-appointed experts, aka politicians, seem to be the worst. Here’s an example: Everybody I talk to, and I talk to a lot of people, say that there is climate change. So, I have educated myself about it.
Episode 078 – Mish’s Journey (1h43m)
Episode 078 welcomes Mish Ochu to the podcast to chat with Skyler about his journey to voluntaryism. Topics include: Being born and partially raised in Nigeria, the entrepreneurship of his parents, immigrating to London, his parents being pursued by the Nigerian government solely because of their wealth, immigrating to the United States and landing in Austin, Texas, private to public schools, libertarian/anarchist seeds, college years, starting a professional essay writer business to help other college students, moving to Houston, Texas, teaching himself to code, being apolitical, jury nullification, deer ass slapping, active listening, playful parenting, Stefan Molyneux, meeting his wife, getting married, having kids, and circumcision.
Libertarian Solutions: How to Keep Americans Safe From The Next Big Hurricane
When it comes down to it, it’s a matter of voluntary choices vs. coercion. If no one would voluntarily insure a building in a flood plain for a low premium, then forcing us to do it is always going to lead to a perverse, wasteful, and in this case, even potentially deadly result.
Jealous of Cops?
Some of my detractors are right: I’m jealous of cops. Yes, I am. I admit it.
Preparedness versus “Price-Gouging”: Don’t Hold Out for a Hero
Living as I do in another hurricane-prone area (Florida) where I got a small taste of the phenomenon from Hermine last year, and having seen my share of tornadoes, blizzards, floods, earthquakes, etc. in other places, it seems to me that hoping for such heroics should be the last rather than the first resort.
Houston, TX (Continuing)
This is a catastrophe. This is a disaster. This is the greatest amount of rain ever recorded in a locale in the history of meteorology. How can POTUS say, “We want to do it better than ever before”?
Houston, TX (Continued)
Is citing disasters as a justification for the state kind of ghoulish, or is it just me? Is this a really-in-poor-taste instance of the broken window fallacy?
Editor’s Break 029 – Why “Price Gouging” is Not Evil (12m)
Editor’s Break 029 looks at the practice of raising prices of important goods and services during a disaster, popular decried as “price gouging.”
“Price-Gouging” is Necessary, and Noble
This article by Thomas Sowell from 2004 remains strikingly wise, lucid and elegant, so much so that I always remember it when reading of “price-gouging” accusations.