Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Elon Musk isn’t being offered enough money

On Friday, Tesla’s board of directors rolled out a pay package proposal for CEO Elon Musk that could, if he plays his cars* right, turn the billionaire into the world’s first trillionaire.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

State benefits come from nowhere

Many people receiving state benefits prefer to think of them as coming from ‘the universe,’ or some impersonal source rather than from taxpayers’ contributions.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Output versus input

There is a case for suggesting that people seek to gain the maximum output for the lowest possible input.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

The case for wine

Although the killjoys in the Department of Health and Social Care campaign against drinking and, indeed, everything else that we might enjoy (tobacco, sugar, fatty foods, etc.), there’s a strong case in favour of moderate wine drinking, based on what has been studied in nutrition, epidemiology, and cultural history.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

But why is fracking banned?

Fracking has been in effect banned in England since 2019, with the last remaining well in Lancashire sealed this year, and the Labour government said it had no plans to reinstate the practice.

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Madsen Pirie Madsen Pirie

Making things worse …

Many unfair critics of the present UK government say that it is leading us to ruin, and that things could not possibly be worse.

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Tim Worstall Tim Worstall

Don’t mess with prices

It is indeed true that some people do not have as much money as we’d like them to have in a country as rich as we are.

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