There’s a difficulty, in cases where certain groups, with the backing of the a considerable minority of the population, are trying to destroy the government, as in Northern Ireland, or the industrial… (View Post)

Absolute poverty means $2.65 a day. I simply don’t know how anyone could survive on that. But, that was the lot of 89% of the world’s people, in 1820, compared to 8% today. In absolute terms, that’s … (View Post)

The Moving Hand Hath Writ, and Having Writ, Moves On. (View Post)

Without the Industrial Revolution, we’d still have 90% of the world’s population living in absolute poverty, slavery and conquest would be normative, and such wealth as there was would be in the hand… (View Post)

Being better than a slave taker or pirate is honestly, not much to congratulate oneself about. (View Post)