I know the word doesn't mean anything anymore but is that "real"? Or is it generated?

Well, the opponents of capitalism are usually the kind of people who can only acquire wealth at gunpoint, rather than through production and trade.

Ha, that we did, God now it feels really long ago 😄

I think you really failed the whole state and propaganda game if it becomes controversial or even criminal to sing a government's "national anthem". Of course I'm thinking of former East Germany and the People's State of Canada.

I will eat all the bacon.

Thanks to excessive government intervention, we have evolved into an entirely new species - the Homo Restrictus

Can't say I prefer today's state of the world compared to, say, '99 - Sure there's been a few medical advances and computers are faster now - but for what? Cars cost an arm and a leg now but aren't really any better, just loaded with useless technology, everything else is cheap crap from China because the west has taxed most industries to death, standards of living sure as hell have gone down, young people leave school having learnt nothing except how to obey state media, almost nobody can afford children or a home anymore, and most food is poison, as is medicine. But hey, at least we have TikTok and 24/7 AI-powered surveillance of everyone and everything. So if anyone finds a way to go back to the 90s - please take me with you, I'll bring a bunch of PS1 games 😄

Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson, latest edition

"Inflation is the opium of the people" - Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson, 1946, 1962, 1979, 1988

That's really all there's to it.