Why Xvi

By John Weyland

This book contains 59 essays. They are all meant to say something new about the subject dealt with.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Oct 18, 2020
• ISBN: 9781665504911

John Weyland

(Author did not want to provide. All his other books for this series did not have ATA)

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Published by AuthorHouse 12/10/2020

ISBN: 978-1-6655-0481-2 (sc)

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Contents

1. Why Corporations Are Not Appreciated

2. Why Do Juries Not Have To Obey The Law

3. Why Don’t The Courts Punish The Perjury

4. Why Doesn’t The Government Admit How It Is Going To Pay Off The National Debt

5. Why Women Owe Their Independence To The Industrial Revolution

6. Why People Are Bewildered By War

7. Why Afterlife In the Mediterranean World Was A Dismal Place

8. Why The Time Has Come To Outlaw Lying by. U.S. Representatives And Senators

9. Why The United States Came Up With The Ideal Solution To The Coronavirus Problem

10. Why People Do Not Want To Be Penalized For Being Mediocre

11. Why Greedy Can Be Good

12. Why The Democrats’ Plan is Clever

13. Why Americans Covered Up The Atrocities Of The Japanese

14. Why Japan Never Had Any Intention Of Trying To Conquer The United States

15. Why The African Colonies Lost Out From The End Of Colonies

16. Why China Cannot Be Punished For Loosing A Plague On The World

17. Why A Problem With The Western World Is That There Is No Religion That Has To Be Believed In

18. Why The Afterlife People Got Was Not The One They Wanted

19. Why Psychology Has Replaced Religion

20. Why People Used To Be Puzzled by Death

21. Why The Couple Was Essential For The Human Species

22. Why One Of The Mysteries Of Human Sex Is Why Women Can Conceive Every Month Of The Year

23. Why The High Cost Of College Is A Mistake

24. Why Since The End Of Estrus Women Have Used Their Looks To Make Themselves Better Off

25. Why Psychology Aggravates Mental Problems

26. Why The Labor Movement Has Always Had A Terrible Secret

27. Why Old People Should Be Discriminated Against

28. Why The United States Has A Great Mass Of Young People Who Won’t Do What They Have To Do

29. Why The United States Ran Out Of Free Land Too Soon

30. Why We Have Been Saying We Have Rights We Don’t

31. Why Pro-labor People Love Lobbying

32. Why The United States Is Becoming A Sometimes Real Democracy

33. Why Force Does Not Work Unless You Are Ready To Use It

34. Why Everybody Is Un Favor Of Social Justice But Nobody Knows What Social Justice Is

35. What Happened To The Monopolies

36. Why Once You Have Called Somebody A Liar Often Enough You Don’t Have To Prove He Is A Liar

37. Why People Learn Not To Think For Themselves

38. Can The Quota System Be Applied To Blacks

39. Why The United States Should Have Gotten Rid Of The Welfare System At The End Of World War II

40. Why Life Decided To Try Something New With Human Beings

41. Why Is Criticizing Majorities Not Illegal

42. Why Liberals Have Given Up On Their Public Belief That All Men Are Created Equal

43. Why Women Cannot Stop Being Women

44. Why Women Have a Great Advantage In A Democracy

45. Why The Europeans Left Africa

46. Why Women Should Never Have Been Given The Vote

47. Why Execution Or Prison

48. Why If You Think Our Morals Should Be Everybody’s Morals You Are A Fool

49. Why Big Disappeared

50. So How Would You Have Done It

51. Why People Started Having Conflicts 10, 000 Years Ago

52. Why Imagination Caused Further Problems For Human Beings

53. Why The Chinese Don’t Go To Heaven

54. Why Communist Governments Have An Advantage With Demonstrations

55. Why People Have So Many False Beliefs

56. Why Didn’t Churchill Foresee That World War II Would Ruin Great Britain

57. Why Capitalism And Democracies Are Enemies

58. Why Rape Is No Longer A Serious Crime

59. Why History Allows The View That All Men Can Become Equal

Chapter 1

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Corporations have brought wealth to the world. And what thanks do they get? The public has a low opinion of them. It is usually hostile.

The Industrial Revolution could not have happened without corporations.

The machines and factories, and all that with them, cost a lot of money.

Where was that money supposed to come from?

One of the oddities of capitalism is that this question is pretty much ignored. It is as if the economists and other supposed experts just assumed that the necessary capital was somehow going to appear. They did not seem to see the problem, so how could they find a solution to it?

The world had had 10,000 years of agriculture. Which is land. So people were not used to dealing with this problem. Agriculture needs relatively little capital. That is because nature supplies most of the capital of agriculture. So people were not used to dealing with this problem. You would think that because it was so obvious that it would have gotten more attention than anything else. But that did not happen.

Economics did not exist until the Industrial Revolution. So you would have thought it would have felt compelled to explain everything about the new subject. Instead it became obsessed with competition in agriculture, where the products in competition are alike. This would have been what you would have expected when the Industrial Revolution began, but it continued for 100 years, though competition became more and more between products that were different.

So where was the money for