Sunday Reads...
- Greg McNeilly
- Oct 7, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 19
An irregular round-up of interesting reads. Most of these made me go "hmmmmm," none of them imply concurrence:
QUOTE OF THE DAY:
The Antitrust laws—an unenforceable, uncompliable, unjudicable mess of contradictions—have for decades kept American businessmen under a silent, growing reign of terror. Yet these laws were created and, to this day, are upheld by the “conservatives,” as a grim monument to their lack of political philosophy, of economic knowledge and of any concern with principles. Under the Antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful “intent to monopolize”; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for “unfair competition” or “restraint of trade”; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for “collusion” or “conspiracy.” There is only one difference in the legal treatment accorded to a criminal or to a businessman: the criminal’s rights are protected much more securely and objectively than the businessman’s. - Ayn Rand
Today's quote concerns the nutty FTC-led "anti-trust" charges in the headlines.
A new study suggests a cause (and hints at a therapy) for ADHD and autism.
Charting the internet-addiction spectrum.
A round-up of work-from-home trends, data, and impact. Most of the data is essentially polling, not empirical evidence; nevertheless, that team members report the value of WFM as equivalent to 8% of their income is of note.
A good reminder when reading social “science” studies: 60% cannot be replicated. Meaning they're informative, not definitive.
For those who believe that disparate impacts (correlation = causation) are dispositive, then the evidence is now clear that the IRS is a racist government agency.
The evidence continues to demonstrate that liberals are challenged at being “good” or empathic people.
However, the troubling signal is that partisan schadenfreude is rising. Abuse of power is directly correlated to the availability of power.
Two-parent families provide higher income mobility probability to children.
Ditch the phone. Evidence that even in social situations, it distracts and retards the benefits of prosocial interactions.
The Law of Attraction or value of anti-diverse social interaction remains true.
Fiscal hypocrites are a bipartisan problem “we the people” created.
Critical review of Ibram X. Kendi’s reductionist racism mounts.
Shocker. When you pay people not to work – they don’t.
Three questions for the man who lied to Congress, commonly called Dr. Fauci.
The corruption of “science” and “medicine.”
