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The state is not society.
Socialist experiments consider the state as community and they’re not the same thing. Communal ownership is the same as state ownership. The state is a monarchy.
“Los discípulos de Rousseau, que hablan tanto acerca de la naturaleza y la feliz condición del hombre en el estado natural, no se percataron que los medios de subsistencia son escasos y de que el estado natural del hombre es la pobreza extrema y la inseguridad. —Mientras los industriales mejoraban los métodos de producción para proveer un mejoramie
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It is primarily we intellectuals and elites who culture shop, picking and choosing what works best for us. That's true in Europe and the US, where each group of elites is inoculated from the least admirable qualities. Well-to-do Americans can escape the banal landscapes, either through travel or by living in the exclusive US neighborhoods that shar... See more
Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor?
These small businesses, which are often run out of someone's home, owned by a family who are also the only employees, are what distinguishes Japan from all other developed nations, making life in it a notch above the rest. While the most obvious of these are restaurants (izakayas, monjayaki-yas, soba-yas, etc.), others are focused on specialized cr... See more
Chris Arnade • In praise of Japanese small, Hokkaido as Wisconsin, and pachinko memories
How good we can transform and re-use buildings and areas that no longer fit our needs is a good criteria for future cities. Cities have been in constant evolution since Uruk became a city over five thousand years ago. There are walls in Lebanon that were built using Roman marble columns.
Craft as a new type of knowledge: wisdom. Implicit knowledge learned through the constant repetition of a task.
Having a narrow idea of what a successful career look like constrains our curiosity and limits our ambition to pursue the work we actually want to do.