aljaz on Nostr: “[A successful society’s] wealth and power and greatness came not from ...

“[A successful society’s] wealth and power and greatness came not from governments or religions, but from business: From traders, from the financiers who make trade possible, from hustlers, inventors, entrepreneurs, and small business people of all sorts. Governments and religions generally just get in the way to a greater or lesser extent. Commerce frees people from poverty and grim lives of bare subsistence.” - A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, Paul Rosenberg