Pinned
Buy my new *You Have No Right to Your Culture*, now on sale!
Order here: amzn.to/3L6Ff6s
Bryan Caplan
@bryan_caplan
GMU econ prof, NYT bestseller, father of 4, author of Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, Case Against Education, Open Borders, & BBB
- "'Raising the minimum wage makes the poor richer, end of story' and 'Stricter drug safety regulation makes everyone healthier, end of story' weren’t straw men. They were the only men in sight."
- To be fair, a sizable minority of UK college grads are probably functionally illiterate, too. The dumbing down of higher ed is a global ill.New from me: Young people in Britain are some of the most well-educated in the rich world, but economic stagnation means that breeds not growth but frustration. In fact, US workers who are functionally illiterate now earn roughly the same per hour as the average British worker.
- "Why not be the change you want to see in the world? You can live a socialist lifestyle and promote broad social change at the same time. The key difference is simply that you don’t have to convince the world to build your socialist Bubble. So why wait?"
