“The whole debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It’s based on a fallacy, & the fallacy is this: that somehow, in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow, when you trade with someone, there’s a loser & someone’s taking advantage of you, & China is ripping you off, or Japan is ripping you off. It’s absolutely a fallacy. Every trade that occurs in the marketplace is mutually beneficial,” - Rand Paul, today.
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Victor Frankl maintains that man’s greatest desires are not simply for a easy life with no struggle or tension, but for “worthy goals” and for a life of meaning and purpose where we forget ourselves in the service of others. Pleasure cannot make us happy. Joy cannot be grasped. It can only be received