The Principle of Easy Business
Adam Smith writes in The Wealth of Nations: “Smiths, carpenters, wheelwrights, and ploughwrights, masons, and bricklayers, tanners, shoemakers, and tailors are people whose service the farmer has frequent occasion for.”
What Community? Smoking, Being Smoked in the Rap Game
Has the economic victory of capitalism overwhelmed the genuine bearers of culture? Hip-hop suffers from the general fate of the commodity-structure.
Nature's Captives: Say Goodbye, Semper Fi
Is money paradoxically the supreme good? Napoleon Bonaparte once famously said that "the French Republic is no more in need of recognition than the sun is."
Back to the Middle Ages
History has long since destroyed the small producer, but that doesn't mean that every worker nowadays eventually desires to become a factory owner. Why have instability and indefiniteness become such key characteristics of modern manufacture?
Don't You Dare Worship Satan's Industry
Rent is often confounded with profit. Sometimes the most violent methods are necessary to prevent the market from being overstocked in plentiful years.
