Timely Aphorisms
“Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and no body to be kicked? And, by God, it ought to have both.”— Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow, Lord Chancellor of England (1731–1806)
“In my little group chat with my tech CEO friends, there’s this betting pool for the first year that there is a one-person billion-dollar company.”— Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, interview with Alexis Ohanian (2024)
Peace is possible.
War is too expensive, too dangerous, too wasteful, too destructive.
“Truth and love must triumph over lies and hatred!” – Vaclav Havel
Everybody is entitled to hanen unique reality — but there is an objective reality.
True religion nourishes love, tolerance, empathy, altruism.
The US is a very rich nation with a poverty problem.
“Asked a German woman why Germany produced so many legendary physicists / mathematicians and her response was basically ” ‘have you considered educating people who aren’t rich? ‘” – Ken Klippenstein
We’ve been taught that people are inherently bad, but it’s just not true.
Beliefs are not created equal: “government and taxes should be minimized” is flat out wrong.
Cooperation is far better than confrontation.
We’re borrowing tons of money to paythe billionaires’ taxes
Hate is too great a burden to bear. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Hate makes hate (and ulcers). Respect and cooperation solves problems.
Tariffs are inherently unfair.
Standard of living is a logarithmic function of wealth.
Prices aren’t the problem. It’s who’s got the bread.
Dark money, propaganda, fake news and disinformation are hazardous to democracy.
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