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"Let them eat growth!"
by smallmancontrov 4mo ago
"Let them eat growth!"
- parineum 4mo agoYou say that like economic growth hasn't led to cheaper food. We used to actually have starving people in this country, now we talk about "food insecurity".
- smallmancontrov 4mo agoAh, so now the bar has fallen to "people aren't literally starving (yet)." Amazing.
- parineum 4mo agoYes, "People aren't literally starving" is incredible progress for humanity. Progress which has coincided with the incredible wealth creation (not transfer, those things are different) of modern times. Would you prefer to go back to a time were people were literally starving?
- smallmancontrov 3mo agoThis argument, better articulated by Thomas Hobbes, would be right at home in 1651 were it was busy justifying the economic mismanagement of that time as well.
- parineum 3mo agoAnd what argument are you making? That starving is good?
- smallmancontrov 3mo agoNo, that you should advance your thinking past the 17th century.
- ChadNauseam 4mo agoNo, the bar has risen to "people aren't literally starving (anymore)." Amazing.
- wat10000 4mo agoPretty sure that's a rise of the bar, not a fall.