if confiscating 100 percent of your economic output constitutes slavery, at which point does it cease to be slavery? 80 percent? 50 percent? 39.6 per… - M.J. DeMarco

If your monthly income exceeds your lifestyle expenses including taxes, guess what? You’re retired!

In school, failure is a bad thing. Marked by a bloody F and a parental beatdown, failure is admonished. Fail and you’re grounded! No TV, no iPad! Is it any shock that straight-A students make great employees while the C-students are the guys hiring them? The A-students do as they’re told, follow rules unquestioningly and stay within the lines. Meanwhile, C-student and future billionaire Johnny is a ninth grader’s newest BFF — he’s underneath the bleachers selling his older brother’s Playboys at twenty-five dollars a pop.

Tu situación económica actual es el producto del itinerario por el que te estás rigiendo actualmente, tanto si lo has elegido tú como si no.