On the sweet stink of selfishness.

How in some circumstances selfishness benefits society.

It isn’t always about being good.

Adam Smith accepted that people are motivated by self-interest, and acknowledging that reality and adapting to market incentives is better than the alternative, creating tyranny through the delusion that a few enlightened mandarins - uncorrupted by any taint of sin - can create broad dictates that create a precise cleave between the wants and need of the multitudes. And it works for everyone because we all have the same basic drives for self-enrichment.

A friend commented on my Substack, asking if I could write something a little happier.

I've always been a big fan of negativity; positivity is the idiot child watching TikTok as he is about to be hit by a bus.

Overall, overly optimistic people have something to hide; they are like people who don't drink; you can't trust them, and there is always a lot of ugly stuff bubbling under their bubbliness.