March 2026

Broken System: 97-year-old Woman Breaks Hip, Told of 10-day Ambulance Wait, Found Dying on Floor

bySelwyn DukeFebruary 25, 2026   Here’s a story for you from what could be called the Warmth of Collectivism Files. A 97-year-old woman in Britain is diagnosed by a paramedic as having a broken hip. A serious injury such as that means you’re going straight to the hospital, stat, right? Well, instead, the elderly woman

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Cruelty is Functional

FEB 19, 2026 https://alimcforever.substack.com/p/cruelty-is-functional You have to understand that for this class of modern billionaires, wealth is not the goal. Rank is the goal. And rank requires someone beneath you. Positional goods Wealth that only works if others lack it. In 1976, the economist Fred Hirsch coined the term “positional goods”. These are things whose

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Ignore the Rich, Don’t Loot Them

02/27/2026•Mises Wire•Gary Galles https://mises.org/mises-wire/ignore-rich-dont-loot-them   Apparently to illustrate that the state of California has little interest in controlling its fiscal profligacy or in protecting the property rights of anyone who can be demonized as rich, a union-backed state ballot initiative titled “The Billionaire Tax Act” has been proposed.   It would not only be punitive,

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