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"Government -- including all those public goods such as roads, airports, schools, fire and police departments -- is instituted to facilitate individual striving, aka the pursuit of happiness. The fact that collective choices, resulting in public goods, facilitate this striving does not compel the conclusion that the collectivity is entitled to take as much of the results of the striving as the collectivity decides that it made possible." - George Will

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Gongol.com Archives: November 2013
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November 27, 2013

Illinois may at last have a fix for its huge state-pension crisis
Higher retirement ages, smaller COLAs, and more room for individual success or failure all look to play a part

Science and Technology

Can species extinction be undone?

Business and Finance

Silicon Valley is more old boys' club than real meritocracy

News

Letting ideas mix freely in the brain is how we evolve

Computers and the Internet

Using games to recruit better workers

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