Is it worth the read?

Fucking exhausting read desu. There are several guys who give a quick rundown and can save you a lot of time.

While we're on the topic of brain breaking reads, have any of you niggers read Critique of Pure Reason? Shit is like almost unreadable without drifting off and just mindlessly skimming the words.

> But not many people get to the point hundreds of pages later, where he says that division of labor will destroy human beings and turn people into creatures as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to be. And therefore in any civilized society the government is going to have to take some measures to prevent division of labor from proceeding to its limits.
Adam Smith knew wagies would be the death of the human spirit
chomsky.info/warfare02/

Is it worse than Kant?

>This is true of classical liberalism in general. The founders of classical liberalism, people like Adam Smith and Wilhelm von Humboldt, who is one of the great exponents of classical liberalism, and who inspired John Stuart Mill — they were what we would call libertarian socialists, at least that ïs the way I read them. For example, Humboldt, like Smith, says, Consider a craftsman who builds some beautiful thing. Humboldt says if he does it under external coercion, like pay, for wages, we may admire what he does but we despise what he is. On the other hand, if he does it out of his own free, creative expression of himself, under free will, not under external coercion of wage labor, then we also admire what he is because he’s a human being. He said any decent socioeconomic system will be based on the assumption that people have the freedom to inquire and create — since that’s the fundamental nature of humans — in free association with others, but certainly not under the kinds of external constraints that came to be called capitalism.
>It’s the same when you read Jefferson. He lived a half century later, so he saw state capitalism developing, and he despised it, of course. He said it’s going to lead to a form of absolutism worse than the one we defended ourselves against. In fact, if you run through this whole period you see a very clear, sharp critique of what we would later call capitalism and certainly of the twentieth century version of it, which is designed to destroy individual, even entrepreneurial capitalism.

i could not read this book. Every sentence is like 100 words long and has tonnes of filler words. Had to reread each sentence like twice just to take in what was actually being said.

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Nothing is worse than Kant. Took me a year and a half to read that fucking book.

I agree it’s the single most difficult read I’ve ever experienced and I’m an attorney.

Mentioning it in passing isn't the same as making people read it and discuss it.

Kant is rationalist trash. Adam Smith uses intuition and accepts human nature as it is.

Any of you guys ever read this one?

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I've found that most philosophy is like this, and I'm starting to believe less and less that I only feel this way because I'm a brainlet.

This is now a Land Value Tax thread.

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ayo fuck the land owners

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Quite literally how to trade goods and services: The Book. A lot of information we have on economics and commerce we take for granted because we're exposed to so much of it, and this book essentially just explains a lot of what we know in detail. If you want to understand the base line of how wealth is created in the world, you should read it, which could be helpful as much of how we run markets today are on autopilot that came from the concepts put into place from people of Adam Smith's day. This book answers more of the why do we as a society function with economies, markets, and trading rather than how to get rich quick.

TL;DR: It's like reading a Morrowind guide on how to generate wealth.