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Yeah, but going from "This seems like an anti-competitive intervention without much justification" to "If we are all about efficiency, let's kill old people" is

by mnx 10y ago

Yeah, but going from "This seems like an anti-competitive intervention without much justification" to "If we are all about efficiency, let's kill old people" is an example of slippery slope fallacy, if I've ever seen one. It's unreasonable to assume I see economic efficiency as the only value. So it would be a better argument to point to what important benefits (not in an economical or easily measured sense) are gained from forbidding people to choose how they want to obtain groceries. Instead I feel like you are trying to attack me, and paint me as a ruthless homo-economicus, who eats babies, because they are nutritious.

toyg 10y ago
> It's unreasonable to assume I see economic efficiency as the only value Then it's unreasonable for you to assume any intervention to stop Amazon is unwarranted. You've already read the motivations, so there is no point in me re-stating them; but you prefer efficiency above Parisians' quality of life and economic stability. So I say fine, let's prefer efficiency above everything. I've not attacked anybody, I've just shown you the limits of a system of thought based on economic efficiency. It's not my fault if they look bad.
- mnx 10y ago
  >Then it's unreasonable for you to assume any intervention to stop Amazon is unwarranted I do not assume that. Maybe they can figure out a reasonable intervention. But the reasons in the article just don't sound honest or strong to me. >but you prefer efficiency above Parisians' quality of life and economic stability. I don't. I think that giving Parisians the option to buy their groceries in more ways, should increase their QOL. And I don't see how it could significantly threaten economic stability. I would love to hear a real argument to the contrary. But it's also fine for me not be convinced, and for you to be. >I've not attacked anybody, I've just shown you the limits of a system of thought based on economic efficiency. Yeah, which no one in their right mind proposes, I certainly did not, and is therefore irrelevant, and an utter strawman. And, as I said before, a classic slippery slope fallacy.

by mnx 10y ago

toyg 10y ago

> It's unreasonable to assume I see economic efficiency as the only value Then it's unreasonable for you to assume any intervention to stop Amazon is unwarranted. You've already read the motivations, so there is no point in me re-stating them; but you prefer efficiency above Parisians' quality of life and economic stability. So I say fine, let's prefer efficiency above everything. I've not attacked anybody, I've just shown you the limits of a system of thought based on economic efficiency. It's not my fault if they look bad.

mnx 10y ago
>Then it's unreasonable for you to assume any intervention to stop Amazon is unwarranted I do not assume that. Maybe they can figure out a reasonable intervention. But the reasons in the article just don't sound honest or strong to me. >but you prefer efficiency above Parisians' quality of life and economic stability. I don't. I think that giving Parisians the option to buy their groceries in more ways, should increase their QOL. And I don't see how it could significantly threaten economic stability. I would love to hear a real argument to the contrary. But it's also fine for me not be convinced, and for you to be. >I've not attacked anybody, I've just shown you the limits of a system of thought based on economic efficiency. Yeah, which no one in their right mind proposes, I certainly did not, and is therefore irrelevant, and an utter strawman. And, as I said before, a classic slippery slope fallacy.