Not long ago my two eldest daughters (Veronica and Regina) and I watched a documentary on the Russian Revolution.
Our middle daughter had gone out for a couple of hours.
When she got back, Veronica told her (jokingly, of course): "We learned about communism. And you don't know anything about it!"
I got a kick out of that.
Since the documentary focused primarily on the revolution itself, I filled in the blanks for them about what life was like under the Bolsheviks during the early years. My girls were riveted, and horrified.
But I don't just teach them about the wickedness of communism. I teach them the other side of the coin, too: the nobility of commerce, on no matter how modest a scale.
Uncoerced, mutually advantageous trade is central to civilization itself.
I celebrate it on my podcast, in my business, and in the suggestions I make to you in these emails.
You would like to be a part of this, dear reader, and be a capitalist yourself. Else you wouldn't be reading me.
But:
You don't have the time.
Fair enough.
But, part II:
If you could cut out 29 of the 30 things you'd normally have to do to start your little side business, would you still think you were too busy?
What if ol' Woods here arranged it so those 29 things were done?
Would you be curious?
If only there were a way to satisfy that curiosity.
If only...
Tom Woods