I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.

Is the economy something organic or is it something engineered? I think it's closer to the organic. You harm it by artificially suppressing volatility in it.

An elephant is vastly more efficient, metabolically, than a mouse. It's the same for a megacity as opposed to a village. But an elephant can break a leg very easily, whereas you can toss a mouse out of a window and it'll be fine. Size makes you fragile.

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.