Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 23d “What would Adam Smith think of Modern Australia? Would David Hume like Vegemite? How would Robert Burns do on The Block? Which Hemsworth are Burke and Hare, respectively? Why is our primary vote so low?”
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And only one week later we can discuss the decline of western civilisation
I will bet that $50 that Joseph Healy asked AI
‘Enlightenment Awaits’ Colour me skeptical that international banker and author Joseph Healy will help me escape samsara
How dare you scoff, 18th century Scotland is where the action is
Melbourne Tartan Festival. Georgina really got her finger on the pulse there. (I would absolutely go to this festival.)
Hume might be a bit of a curmudgeon about the whole Happy Little Vegemite thing, too?
Complaining about the weather?
I actually want to know what Thomas Robert Malthus would think about Aldi’s role in interrupting the Coles Woolworths duopoly
Putting ‘Enlightenment awaits!’ At the bottom of all my promotional material from now, as well as my dating app profile
“International Banker & Author”. Worst dual-class ever.
The invisible hand of the market www.investopedia.com/terms/i/invi...
"You just get on the pundit circuit. You all go on the chat shows and the colour supplements and violently disagree with each other about what answer I’m eventually going to produce. And if you get yourselves clever agents, you’ll be on the gravy train for life."
He already wrote about contemporary landlords, quite negatively. David Graeber's debt book also spoke of Smith's ease at lying about American Indigenous trade as a form of capitalism also, so, you know, swings and roundabouts.
The Adam Smith invisible hand LLM
What do you get for fifty dollars? Tea and coffee and a couple scones?
I’m more interested in the Melbourne Tartan Festival.