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Piquant excerpts lifted from Touchstone editors' own reading & listening.
Regardless of whether one thinks industrialization is fundamentally a good thing or not, it has certainly been a spectacular achievement of human ingenuity and energy, and most of us—most people who will read this—live in abundance and comfort because of it. And yet we have a tendency to treat the wealth it produces as something akin to a natural resource, something that just appeared spontaneously and requires no effort to preserve, leaving us only the question of how to distribute it. It’s worthwhile to be reminded that it was the product of intelligence and an enormous amount of hard work.
—Maclin Horton
“Ayn Rand, Crank,” from his blog, Light on Dark Water (Aug. 3, 2008)
— work — Commonplaces #225 — Mar/Apr 2025 —
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