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There are two economies: a fake one consisting of fake jobs that are being automated away and only exist because of the usual bureaucratic malfeasance; and a real economy consisting of robots and the entrepreneurs who are deploying them. What economists are doing is hewed to a type of economy that ceased to exist 150 years ago. All it's about now is letting AI take its course and figuring out how to provide welfare to the already useless 90% of the population that is now given crypto-welfare in the form of expensive and destructive jobs as professors, lawyers, law enforcement, etc.

A distinction is made between two kinds of mental impairments and, on the basis, between genuine psychosis and pseudo-psychosis.

Religion is about doubt; it is about the doubt that the spiritual person has when he is rational enough to question his spirituality but not rational enough to jettison it.

Vegans self-identify as animals. So for them, consuming animal products is cannibalism, and that is why they don't consume such products.

Politics is about compromise. Submission is not compromise. Academia is about submission, not compromise, and there are therefore no academic politics.

To learn about sociology - in other words, to learn about the forces that govern society - don't study sociology; study the way in which sociology is studied. If, instead of studying within sociology departments, you take such departments as the veritable object of your study, you will discover a fraud far greater than anything exposed by any sociologist, and the depth of your subsequent understanding of human nature will extend as far as that fraud runs deep.

An explanation of the psychology of the bureaucrat and of bureaucratic institutions.

It is proved that, even though the universe is predictable only to the extent that it is deterministic, a completely deterministic universe is nonetheless not completely predictable, even in principle.

A description of the relationship between deductive thought and artistic creation.

A compendium of some of Kuczynski's more readable work on philosophy, scientific methodology, and the theory of knowledge.

Various thoughts are stated and developed as to how to improve oneself and as to the nature of the forces, both internal and external, that prevent one from doing so.

Academic journals are clogged with gratuitous scholarship. This prevents the advancement of the corresponding disciplines in many ways, five of which are identified in this short work.

Don't fight your pychopathologies. Get them to work for you. Identify a course of action in which your psychopathologies are an asset, not a liability. In this way, you will get them to work for you and against themselves.

If you speak the truth, you are hated. If you write the truth, you are loved.

It is concisely proved that time travel is not possible.

In order to acquire wisdom, one must confront the world and keep one's identity. If one shrinks from the world, one may keep one's identity but not gain in wisdom. If one confronts the world but does not keep one's identity, one does gain in wisdom. Age does not guarantee wisdom: only those who both confront the world and stay true to themselves grow wiser with age.

This volume contains monologues and dialogues in which the most basic questions of psychoanalysis, philosophy, and logic are given clear and cogent answers.

One's intellect extends only as far as one's impotence. So when you bemoan your inability to destroy the forces that wronged you, remember that there but for your powerlessness go your intellectual acuity and artistic creativity.

This short work clearly states what a formal language is and it thereby answers questions of fundamental importance about language in general. It is established that the concept of a perfectly formal language is incoherent but that the concept of a relatively formal language is coherent.

A short piece about the psychology of non-buyers.