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Why not extend this to everyone? When your projected costs to society exceed your projected benefit to society you get ground into food for the rest?
by nkrisc 4y ago
Why not extend this to everyone? When your projected costs to society exceed your projected benefit to society you get ground into food for the rest?
- the_only_law 4y ago> Why not extend this to everyone? They already implicitly did. Turns out the dysfunctional criminal justice and medical system the praise affect more than just addicts. Who would have thought.
- f38zf5vdt 4y agoThere is a reason economics is called "the dismal science". Most resources on the planet are finite and their consumption is a zero-sum game. If one less drug addict means having the public resources to supply one more diabetic child with life-saving insulin, which would you choose?
- mcguire 4y agoEssentially all choices real people make are not economically optimal.
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- moonchrome 4y ago> Most resources on the planet are finite and their consumption is a zero-sum game. This is such a ridiculous viewpoint on a hacker forum. There are no intrinsic resources - iron ore is just a bunch of rocks, crude oil is a toxic sludge, Uranium is a bunch of radioactive ore. Economy is not a zero sum game, it's about allocating current resources to expand future ones (AKA growth)
- f38zf5vdt 4y agoThere is only one hospitable planet. Observe how we have treated it.
- nkrisc 4y agoThat’s a false choice that doesn’t exist and nothing more than a thought experiment.