Causing Posperity

We live in strange times, times when seemingly we have forgotten the obvious things and are suffering decline as our just desserts.

Not long ago, this was “blatantly obvious civilizational bedrock about which the west broadly agreed.”

Now it seems almost revolutionary.

And i suspect it’s because we’re asking the wrong questions.

This is the correct question.

“Why are these people poor?” is a meaningless question. it’s the base state, nasty, brutish, and short.

Ask instead: “how did some few pe...