Well, I'm a third through Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. I wanted to read it for decades but it intimidated me. It is huge - more than a thousand pages - but it reads fast, and it leaves me w/a sense of optimism: no matter what radical right/left freaks say or do, people have an incentive to get rich by making better goods and services for lower prices, which is the same thing as increasing the standard of living for people. Some folx will say that the "global warming" "problem" disproves this, but the incentive is for someone to design and sell a cost-effective alternative energy, because this would be worth trillions.
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Well, I'm a third through Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. I wanted to read it for decades but it intimidated me. It is huge - more than a thousand pages - but it reads fast, and it leaves me w/a sense of optimism: no matter what radical right/left freaks say or do, people have an incentive to get rich by making better goods and services for lower prices, which is the same thing as increasing the standard of living for people. Some folx will say that the "global warming" "problem" disproves this, but the incentive is for someone to design and sell a cost-effective alternative energy, because this would be worth trillions.