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The Morality of Profit: Why Being Pro-Business is Actually Pro-Human

Enlightenment, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Jean-Baptiste Say

There’s a peculiar shame attached to profit in modern discourse. We celebrate the entrepreneur who “gives back” but eye with suspicion the one who simply makes money. We applaud companies that announce charitable initiatives but question those that focus on doing one thing exceptionally well at a good price. This moral framework treats profit as […]

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The Intellectual Entrepreneur: Why Your Laptop Is the New Textile Mill (Jean-Baptiste Say)

Jean-Baptiste Say, Enlightenment, Entrepreneurship

Jean-Baptiste Say never owned a smartphone. He died in 1832, decades before the telegraph, let alone Twitter. Yet the French economist understood something fundamental about wealth creation that applies more today than it did in his era of steam engines and spinning jennies. Say argued that entrepreneurs don’t just shuffle resources around. They create value

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Why You’re Not an Entrepreneur Until You Combine Labor and Capital (and Risk it All) According to Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean-Baptiste Say, Economics, Enlightenment, Thinkers

Everyone who’s ever sold something on Etsy or posted a “CEO of myself” caption on LinkedIn thinks they’re an entrepreneur. We live in a time when the word has been stretched so thin it barely means anything anymore. Side hustles, passion projects, freelance gigs—we call all of it entrepreneurship. But if we transported a French

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