Tony Morley
@tonymmorley.bsky.social
Progress studies, trade, free markets, economic and technological growth, writer and communicator. Classical liberal. Fellow Fellow, O'Shaughnessy Ventures: Founder: The Up Wing Links: lnk.bio/tonymmorley
"So, if you’re willing to make exceptions to free speech for people you don’t like … well, that’s no longer free speech." — The First Amendment is More Radical Than You May Think youtu.be/SwZdPN83fsE?...
The First Amendment is More Radical Than You May Think
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September 25, 2025 at 11:31 PM
"So, if you’re willing to make exceptions to free speech for people you don’t like … well, that’s no longer free speech." — The First Amendment is More Radical Than You May Think youtu.be/SwZdPN83fsE?...
“The entire procedure takes 12 to 18 hours. One injection seems to be enough to permanently lower levels of mutant huntingtin in the brain.” “This could be a major breakthrough,”
September 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“The entire procedure takes 12 to 18 hours. One injection seems to be enough to permanently lower levels of mutant huntingtin in the brain.” “This could be a major breakthrough,”
Pew estimates a total of 47,000 gun-related deaths in the United States in 2023. By contrast, the 2022 heatwave in Europe resulted in 61,000 heat-related deaths. If you care about life, air conditioners are more effective at saving lives than almost anyone realises.
September 25, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Pew estimates a total of 47,000 gun-related deaths in the United States in 2023. By contrast, the 2022 heatwave in Europe resulted in 61,000 heat-related deaths. If you care about life, air conditioners are more effective at saving lives than almost anyone realises.
“The higher estimates of extreme poverty reflect a higher poverty threshold, not that the world is poorer. In fact, the latest data shows that incomes among the world’s poorest are actually higher than previously estimated.” ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
The latest World Bank data counts 125 million more people as living in extreme poverty — but the world has not gotten poorer
To track progress towards ending extreme poverty, the United Nations relies on World Bank estimates of the number of people living below a poverty threshold called the “International Poverty Line” (IP...
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September 24, 2025 at 4:27 AM
“The higher estimates of extreme poverty reflect a higher poverty threshold, not that the world is poorer. In fact, the latest data shows that incomes among the world’s poorest are actually higher than previously estimated.” ourworldindata.org/data-insight...
“Yes, there are lives that we all should work to improve. But the chances for a good life for a child are at least as high now as they have ever been, in all of human history.” afterthespike.com
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
An eye-opening exploration of humanity’s unprecedented path to global depopulation and its significance from economists Dean Spears and Michael Geruso.
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September 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
“Yes, there are lives that we all should work to improve. But the chances for a good life for a child are at least as high now as they have ever been, in all of human history.” afterthespike.com
“The gloomy view that most lives in the future won’t be worth living. That gloomy view about the prospects for humanity’s future relative to humanity’s present is often rooted in a misunderstanding of wellbeing in humanity’s present relative to humanity’s past.”
September 24, 2025 at 3:40 AM
“The gloomy view that most lives in the future won’t be worth living. That gloomy view about the prospects for humanity’s future relative to humanity’s present is often rooted in a misunderstanding of wellbeing in humanity’s present relative to humanity’s past.”
“We're going to pander to the evil? No. What makes the West great is that we do good after evil, not evil after evil.” — Charlie Kirk www.theupwing.com/edition20/
E20: “Good vs Evil” — the best podcast episode of the year, declining global poverty, crop yields continue to increase through 2025 and more.
Tony Morley, September 23rd, 2025
“We're going to pander to the evil? No. What makes the West great is that we do good after evil, not evil after evil.” — Charlie Kirk
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September 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“We're going to pander to the evil? No. What makes the West great is that we do good after evil, not evil after evil.” — Charlie Kirk www.theupwing.com/edition20/
“It’s not uncommon for people to tell me that global food production is already collapsing due to climate change. They are then surprised to hear that we typically hit record harvests year after year (even as things get hotter).” www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/food-proje...
The world is on track for record harvests this year
What do the latest projections expect for global food production and yields of different crops?
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com
September 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“It’s not uncommon for people to tell me that global food production is already collapsing due to climate change. They are then surprised to hear that we typically hit record harvests year after year (even as things get hotter).” www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/food-proje...
It turns out, he's not wrong. Between 1800 and 2025, global extreme poverty decreased from 90% to approximately 9%. See, The Capitalist Manifesto by Johan Norberg atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-cap...
The Capitalist Manifesto – Atlantic Books
‘This book is an excellent explanation of why capitalism is not just successful, but morally right‘ Elon Musk ‘A joyful counterblast… packed with vivid examples… decisive’ The Economist ‘Compelling… M...
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September 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It turns out, he's not wrong. Between 1800 and 2025, global extreme poverty decreased from 90% to approximately 9%. See, The Capitalist Manifesto by Johan Norberg atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-cap...
E19: Poverty is declining, the benefits of freer trade, Ireland’s escape from poverty and more: The Up Wing www.theupwing.com/edition19/
E19: Poverty is declining, the benefits of freer trade, Ireland’s escape from poverty and more:
Tony Morley, September 10th, 2025
“While freer trade—in both exports and imports—makes us better off, the opposite is also true. Barriers to free trade, such as tariffs, have a negative impact on our...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
E19: Poverty is declining, the benefits of freer trade, Ireland’s escape from poverty and more: The Up Wing www.theupwing.com/edition19/
“While I knew that Ireland had up until quite recently been a poor place by European standards, I hadn’t realized just how poor.” www.vox.com/future-perfe... Bryan Walsh Root Source: Our World In Data, Gapminder, GPD per capita, PPP$2017
How Ireland wrote the modern story of progress
Few countries better exemplify how life has actually improved.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
“While I knew that Ireland had up until quite recently been a poor place by European standards, I hadn’t realized just how poor.” www.vox.com/future-perfe... Bryan Walsh Root Source: Our World In Data, Gapminder, GPD per capita, PPP$2017
Visualization from Sketchplanations: “The magic of trade is that both sides are better off when it works well—a genuine win-win.” sketchplanations.com/the-butcher-... 🍞
The Butcher, the Brewer, the Baker — Adam Smith quote
One of the most famous lines from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations is: "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to ...
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September 5, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Visualization from Sketchplanations: “The magic of trade is that both sides are better off when it works well—a genuine win-win.” sketchplanations.com/the-butcher-... 🍞