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How to Destroy Civilization

An idea so idiotic I assumed it'd never need to be refuted.

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JD Breen
Aug 16, 2024
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Atlanta, GA

August 16, 2024

What causes poverty? 

That seems like a good question. But it’s the wrong one to ask. 

Poverty, as Tom Woods put it, is the natural condition of mankind. Like humidity in Houston or insects in the Amazon, we needn’t do anything to bring it about. We’ll suffer the affliction unless we shield ourselves from it.

Rather than inquire i…

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