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Economics in One Lesson Part 1

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 I actually read another book since finishing the Bitcoin Standard. I didn't feel like writing about it here, since it was a different kind of non-fiction. It is by my friend Ben Schilaty and it's called A Walk in My Shoes, about his experiences as a gay Latter-Day Saint. Some of it I'd already read from his blog, and some of the things I "learned" were spiritual and personal, meaningful to me because my testimony needed his testimony to buoy it up. Not exactly what this blog is for. But if anyone actually ever reads this, I do recommend Ben's book. I offered it up on my local Buy Nothing FB page when I was done and there are several going to pass the book around, so that was fun.  So now I'm onto Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. The Mises Institute was shipping them to people for free, so I said, "Why not?"  The "one lesson" is taught right at the beginning, all other chapters offering different ways this lesson is forgotten o