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Everyone here seems to be criticizing Piketty for weird reasons. He is not saying post-war Germany's debt is the exact same thing as the current Greek crisis. P
by interesting_att 11y ago
Everyone here seems to be criticizing Piketty for weird reasons. He is not saying post-war Germany's debt is the exact same thing as the current Greek crisis. Pointing out parallels isn't same thing as saying two situations are equivalent.
His point is that this isn't a "moral" decision between two peoples. It's an economic decision between nations.
- csallen 11y agoThank you. When a specific comparison is made between two things, people are too quick to emotionally point out the obvious and irrelevant fact that some differences exist, too.
- shrikant 11y ago..especially when he's specifically expanded on that point in the same article. In a situation that certainly warrants more nuance than can be conveyed in a Tweet-sized headline, the supposedly "enlightened" HN crowd should really RTFA.