A lesson from the Silk Road.
The only time people try to understand other minds and tribes is when they’re trying to sell them something.
The only time people try to understand other minds and tribes is when they’re trying to sell them something.
Christianity, spices, Nike.
Sounds bad? At least it’s a powerful and persistent incentive to learn other languages (be “anti-racist”).
Sounds bad? At least it’s a powerful and persistent incentive to learn other languages (be “anti-racist”).
We don’t progress by moral commitments.
We progress because markets are marginally better than war.
We progress because markets are marginally better than war.
To me the greatest anti-tyranny development of the last few weeks is Ted Cruz dubbing Coke “woke”—and refusing its money.
Now Coke is free(r) from government and can play the pro-democracy role it played in the former Soviet states.
Put a Coke up against Cruz or the Kremlin and ask the people what they choose.
Put a Coke up against Cruz or the Kremlin and ask the people what they choose.
“Better for a man to tyrannize over his own wallet than over the bodies of other men.”
Hirschman on the “sweetening” effect of capitalism.
Hirschman on the “sweetening” effect of capitalism.
Coca-Colonization is terrible. But perhaps better than Stalin.
This is meant to be speculative. Not a QED.
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