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The Unbelievable Truth about Sweatshops 

Starvation or sweatshop?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=O2sW2wt3nLU#!

How to control bitcoin (via reddit) View high resolution

How to control bitcoin (via reddit)

The Real and Simple Equation That Killed Wall Street

An interesting take on what happened in 2008. In the end it’s greed, pure greed.

Please don’t

Please don’t

Friedrich Hayek’s ‘The Road to Serfdom’ in 5 Minutes

How Do They Make Money?

Nice tool showing how companies make their money.

Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril

Watch this space. The world is slowly becoming less free everyday with stupid laws.

Discussion on HN

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The result has been growing pessimism about what Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology call “reluctant entrepreneurs”—poor people who run their own businesses only because they cannot find a job. “We are kidding ourselves if we think they can pave the way for a mass exit from poverty,” they wrote last year in a book called “Poor Economics”.
Small companies in poor countries

Oleg Andreev: Bitcoin Non-Technical FAQ

oleganza:

Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. It does not depend on any particular organization or a person and is not backed by any commodity like gold or silver. Bitcoin is a name for both the currency and for the protocol of storage and exchange. Just like any other money (dollars, gold or sea…

(Reblogged from oleganza)

Getting rich through special privilege

How to get rich (based on the article)

  1. Offering goods and services that others want at prices they are willing to pay.
  2. Steal things - Plunder.
  3. Elect someone to take some wealth (tax) from others - redistribution of wealth (by the government).
  4. Regulations.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2011/05/06/getting-rich-through-special-privilege/

This is why I don't give you a job

A Hungarian entrepreneur explains why he’s not hiring anyone. A good break down of cost of doing business and hiring workers in Hungary.

Textbooks in College

  • Me: Is it okay if I just buy the 7th edition instead of the 8th? It's over $100 cheaper and it would be great if I could save some money.
  • Professor: No. They added a comma in the new edition, which is utterly essential to your comprehension of the author's content.
(Reblogged from libertarians)
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We weren’t going to find a place where we could go for a month to be enlightened. It was one of the first times that I started to realize that maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Kairolie Baba put together.
Who were Steve Jobs’s heroes

Have You Noticed the Doers?

If you’ve been here more than once, you may have noticed a similarity in many stories, a large percentage are about someone taking action, they get an idea and rather than debate the issue endlessly, they try doing it. Drawing a new design, building a new motorcycle or modifying an existing bike, if it works for them, they accomplish their goal. They answer the “What if” questions with action. They are doers, the folks who think and do, the ones who accomplish something.

Career choice for future criminals. LOL

Career choice for future criminals. LOL