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Ahh ha, this is like when I say a Scotsman was rude to me and someone else informs me that it must not have been a true Scotsman, then
by royaltheartist 5y ago
Ahh ha, this is like when I say a Scotsman was rude to me and someone else informs me that it must not have been a true Scotsman, then
- WillPostForFood 5y agoAhh ha, this is like when I say a Frenchman was rude to me and someone else informs me that it must not have been a true Scotsman, then
- Sophistifunk 5y agoIt's the exact same as when some pimply-faced first year uni student tells you "nobody's really tried proper communism"
- munk-a 5y agoI guess it's also the same as when some CEO of a multi-national corporation says "nobody's really tried proper communism" but I'm failing to see what the pimply faced first year uni student really yields to this argument - since both of those theoretical people definitely exist. Some people do use really bad arguments - people who bring random unrelated characteristics in to color an attack are definitely in that crowd.
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoIt's more similar to someone saying "That behaviour isn't rude in Scotland". The store isn't running out of bread, bread-eaters are running out of money.
- roenxi 5y agoIf someone lives in Brazil, was born in Brazil and speaks Spanish though there is a reasonable chance that they are in fact not a Scotsman. If there are consistent breadlines, that means someone is giving away a resource at below its value - free markets sort that out very quickly. They turn up for a few days then go away as prices adjust. Persistent problems only crop up when something regulatory is keeping prices down because the seller has huge incentives to raise them until people go away. I'm not arguing the situation would be rosy, but breadlines just are not how free markets deal with the situation. Markets use price signals to allocate, not long queues. Not a controversial fact, although people do sometimes get very unhappy about it.