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Then shouldn't countries with the least regulations have the highest QoL? Then why does it seem to be the exact opposite?
by DropInIn 3y ago
Then shouldn't countries with the least regulations have the highest QoL?
Then why does it seem to be the exact opposite?
- ETH_start 3y agoSome laws, like those against theft and violence, increase competitiveness. The ideal state has such laws - that establish a free market based on voluntary interaction - and little else. And indeed, states that get closest to this ideal have the best economic growth rates and trends in QoL improvements.
- DropInIn 3y agoNice handwaving....
- BoiledCabbage 3y agoCompetitiveness != Free Market If fact, if you want competitiveness you need to prevent a fully free market. No matter how many times this is explained, people still continue to make this incredibly simple and enormously consequential mistake. If we're taking the reductionist view that economic output is the only important measure of society, then people need to understand that means maximizing competition not maximizing a free market.
- ETH_start 3y ago>>If fact, if you want competitiveness you need to prevent a fully free market. I've seen no indication of that.
- antisthenes 3y ago> And indeed, states that get closest to this ideal have the best economic growth rates and trends in QoL improvements. Isn't this just a cleverly worded tautology? It's like saying healthy people tend to live longer and happier lives. But is it actionable information? Not really.
- ETH_start 3y agoHow is that a tautology?
- DropInIn 3y agoAnd Sealioning is in action, and thus so is Poe's law. No reasonable person could believe you're acting in good faith, right? Really...
- ETH_start 3y agoI don't see any tautology in my statement so I asked for an elaboration, in good faith. But your caustic response is anything but, so you've become the very thing you imagine me to be: a bad faith interlocutor.
- DropInIn 3y agoYour action is definitional Sealioning from my perspective. If you can't see it then take a step back and analyze the thread until you can see how others would perceive your reply as such.
- ETH_start 3y agoAgain, I don't see the tautology in my statement, and I know I'm asking for elaboration in good faith, so there's no way I could see it from your perspective.
- DropInIn 3y agoIf you can't see it from my perspective despite other readers clearly having been able (upvotes) then the problem is You, isn't it?