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Note that 'pro-business' is a politically empty phrase. After all, no candidate in any election would claim to be 'anti-business'. If the opposite to any given
by joosters 13y ago
Note that 'pro-business' is a politically empty phrase. After all, no candidate in any election would claim to be 'anti-business'.
If the opposite to any given political standpoint is completely unacceptable, then IMO that makes the original viewpoint empty and meaningless.
- icebraining 13y ago"No candidate" is too strong a word; around here we have a few that are certainly anti-business. (EDIT: Note that I'm not an US citizen, and this is not a jab at anyone, it's a statement of fact. I can assure you that the candidate of the Reorganized Movement of the Party of the Proletariat is indeed anti-business)
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- icebraining 13y agoAnother alternative is how Luis Zingales puts it: "Pro-market, not necessarily pro-business". Though to some this might be a distinction without a difference, I prefer this viewpoint.
- Brakenshire 13y ago> Note that 'pro-business' is a politically empty phrase. After all, no candidate in any election would claim to be 'anti-business'. Not sure I agree, for instance no candidate would claim to be 'anti-life', but that doesn't make 'pro-life' a politically empty phrase. In that case, you know exactly what someone means by it. But pro-business is definitely vague. It might just as well mean 'friendly with industrialists' as wanting to spark wide-based growth.
- joosters 13y agoTrue, a good counterexample! I think in general it is a good rule of thumb to evaluate political statements by. There are elections coming up near me soon and several candidates like to claim that they will 'support the local community'. Strangely no-one is against that!