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Only Individuals Engage in Action | The Twilight of Gold Series | Episode 9 (WiM174)

The "What is Money?" Show

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The Left Right Political Spectrum Is a False Economy

i've come to view that left right political spectrum is kind of a false economy. Ultimately, what i think is beneath it is there's only one elementary particle, if you will, to any economy, and that is the individual. Only individuals exist and only individuals acth is no society acting. There is no societies good and societi’s bad. And so i think the actual axis is individualism v collectivism. I think selfishness is, you know, selfishness. By the way, altruism is selfish. You can do an altru thing for selfish reasons, because it feels really good to help someone. So i think im i want to know why someone's

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