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There’s a lot of comments in here straw manning a book that I would guess very few have actually read. I don’t know if it’s a good argument or not but I’m sure
by helpcatscary 3y ago
There’s a lot of comments in here straw manning a book that I would guess very few have actually read. I don’t know if it’s a good argument or not but I’m sure the author is intelligent enough to have considered incentives and the case of central planning in the USSR and it’s not dunking on the author to just blindly bring these cases up as if they disqualify their whole argument. If this three paragraph summary of a 300 page book is so enraging then there’s maybe some deep seated biases to confront first.
- arp242 3y agoApproximately no one commenting here has read the book; it's only been out for a day, and while I'm a big fan of "actually read the fucking article before commenting", expecting people to purchase and read an entire book before commenting is a bit much. IMHO this is a bad submission; not because the book or the premise of it is good or bad, but because all most of us can do is discus the title and (very) brief premise.
- helpcatscary 3y agoYeah that’s a fair point. It would be much more valuable to at least wait until someone in the world has had a chance to read the book and post a more detailed review of it. As it stands right now there’s nothing to talk about now other than the boogeymen we invent in our mind of the people who have the opposite stance on this than us. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if someone involved with marketing the book posted this knowing that it would provoke some kind of response from the community.