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Things Thomas Sowell might have said. A meme odyssey.

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Collective action problems arise when individuals can enjoy the benefits of cooperation while allowing others to bear its costs. Economists have developed elaborate models
to explain this behavior.
Teachers call it a group project.
- Thomas Sowell

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The future remains difficult to predict primarily because most of it has not
happened yet.
- Thomas Sowell

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thomas Sowell on reparations

DEBTS DO NOT ORDINARILY DISAPPEAR WHEN EITHER THE DEBTOR
OR CREDITOR DIES. WE HAVE INSTITUTIONS
FOR PRECISELY THIS REASON. INTRODUCING HISTORY
INTO THE TRANSACTION COMPLICATES THE ACCOUNTING, BUT DOES NOT BY ITSELF
SETTLE IT.
- THOMAS SOWELL

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Civilizations rarely collapse while the conditions necessary for their continued existence remain sufficient to prevent
their collapse.
- Thomas Sowell

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Facts are
indispensable. This is why one must select the relevant ones
carefully.
- Thomas Sowell

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Free markets are called free because
they cost nothing. This is among capitalism's most
important advantages.
- Thomas Sowell

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

History contains remarkably few examples of events that
did not occur.
- Thomas Sowell

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Drake-format meme using a younger Thomas Sowell. Top panel: Sowell raises his hand dismissively beside the text “Serious academic writing.” Bottom panel: Sowell points approvingly beside the text “Make quotes for Internet.”

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

If one finds oneself debating whether to tattoo an economist's quotation upon one's body, it may be prudent to purchase another of his
books instead.
- Thomas Sowell

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The surest way to persuade people to realize capital gains is to make unrealized gains considerably
more expensive. Taxing them at 90%
would suffice.
- Thomas Sowell

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"No misfortune can be considered significant so long as a sufficiently unrelated larger misfortune can be located somewhere
in history. Thomas Sowell

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"No misfortune can be considered significant so long as a sufficiently unrelated larger misfortune can be located somewhere
in history. The arithmetic involved
remains obscure."
-THOMAS SOWELL
THOMAS SOWELL'S PRINCIPLE OF COMPARATIVE SUFFERING
A corollary to the economic principle of comparative advantage. More people have died from causes other than shark attacks than from
shark attacks. More buildings have been
destroyed by causes other
More empires have
More people have been
committed atrocities
punched by non-boxers
than arson than by arson.
than the Roman Empire. than by professional

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thomas Sowell on taxes

Confiscatory taxation
is ordinarily destructive. There are, however, circumstances in which 90 percent is simply the price required to restore
proper incentives. The inability to distinguish principles from percentages has caused considerable
confusion.
- Thomas Sowell

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

66 I have devoted many years to the study of economics, history, law, and political philosophy. I continue to regard Herman Melville's distinction between a Fast-Fish and a Loose-Fish as among the more useful
contributions to the subject. - Thomas Sowell

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

have been corrected by historians, sociologists, psychologists, and
political scientists.
It is gratifying to see such interdisciplinary
agreement."
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- Thomas Sowell

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"Economics concerns the allocation of scarce
resources. Where resources are not scarce, economics has considerably less
to allocate.
- THOMAS SOWELL

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

THOMAS SOWELL'S CONCISE GLOSSARY
Tradeoffs
(noun) Those costs incurred when alternatives are exchanged for other
alternatives.
- Thomas Sowell

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somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"Comparative advantage is most advantageous when it is comparatively
advantageous."
- THOMAS SOWELL

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Inflation affects prices primarily by increasing
prices."
- Thomas Sowell

somasthowell.bsky.social @somasthowell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"The principal weakness of every market is that it cannot participate in the market whose value it
is attempting to measure."
- THOMAS SOWELL