Three What I Like About Scrooge - More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg

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Three What I Like About ScroogeRead more at location 564

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Scrooge McDuck lowered prices. Each Scrooge enriched his neighbors as much as any Lord Mayor who invited the town in for a Christmas meal.Read more at location 584

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Was Scrooge unpalatable? Yes. He never cared a bit that his self-denial left more for others. But it did leave more for others, which is what matters after all.Read more at location 603

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Was Scrooge selfish? Surely not. He was miserly, which is a different thing altogether. Selfishness is all about claiming a bigger shareRead more at location 605

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There are two ways to get rich. You can create new wealth or you can take someone else’s. The miner who strikes gold creates (almost) no wealth, yet he ends up wealthy.Read more at location 618

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The unsuccessful miner gains nothing for himself and imposes no costs on his neighbors. The successful miner earns a fortune and costs his neighbors a collective fortune.Read more at location 622

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Mining is a lot like pollution—it takes harmless substances and transforms them into something harmful—harmful, that is, to everyone who suffers when prices rise.Read more at location 632

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Saving is philanthropy, and the tax system should recognize as much. If there’s a tax deduction for charitable giving, there should be a tax deduction for saving. What you earn and don’t spend is your contribution to the world, and it’s equally a contribution whether you give it away or squirrel it away.Read more at location 637

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the tax system should encourage saving (e.g., the salutary effects on economic growth). If Christmas is the season of selflessness, then surely one of the great symbols of Christmas should be Ebenezer Scrooge—the old Scrooge, not the reformed one. It’s taxes, not misers, that need reforming.Read more at location 645

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