anemoiac

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by anemoiac 5y ago
I can see what you've written, but I'm having trouble with the level of certainty you ascribe to what is surely a highly-subjective claim. It's not at all clear that Malthus is not (or hasn't been), at least partially, a
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by anemoiac 5y ago
> No, I meant exactly what I said. Ah, well then I will continue to be puzzled by your response - i.e. why you think any of the classical "economists" you've named are so much better qualified than Marx to critique Malthus
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by anemoiac 5y ago
It sounds like you mean to say that Smith, Ricardo, and Bastiat are more popular in casual online discussions of economics or economic history, because they aren't any more relevant to contemporary academic economics than Marx is. In f
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by anemoiac 5y ago
> Marx’s “Capital” is the bullshit kind of economics. If anything, it is the butt joke of economists today. Compared to what? Not other mid-19th century economic works... Marx published Capital prior to the so-called "Marginal Revol
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by anemoiac 5y ago
> That this was written by "Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor", is worrying. This isn't coincidental, FWIW. Our political and economic systems self-perpetuate by encouraging the
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by anemoiac 5y ago
Are these assumptions based on your personal experience? I ask because mine has been completely different than what you describe.
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by anemoiac 5y ago
This comment will add zero value to this discussion, but I feel compelled to mention that I always seem to mix this guy up with Jeremy Bentham for a minute or two before realizing why I'm confused.
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by anemoiac 5y ago
Is this what being good at writing is - stringing together paragraphs and paragraphs of words that don't end up saying anything?
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by anemoiac 5y ago
MXroute is an option. I've used the service minimally, but haven't had any issues within that limited context.
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by anemoiac 5y ago
Are you ever tempted to blatantly acknowledge the attention-seeking nature of these displays? *Setting: A handful of executives gather around an oblong conference table on a quiet Tuesday afternoon* tluyben2 : Gee, Big-Watch, is everything
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by anemoiac 5y ago
^Whatever this is... not that.
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> when I realized this thing is definitely for sheltered rich people. Isn't that a basic requirement of a luxury vacation?
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by anemoiac 5y ago
I hope you’re right. I’ve been driving wagons for years, but the US market for them has been shrinking consistently since crossovers became a thing. Europeans seemingly have oodles of options, but God forbid automakers allow Americans a spo
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by anemoiac 5y ago
Sounds like he may have had ADHD. I wonder how being medicated with stimulants might have impacted him.
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What’s extreme about them? Does being outside the American Overton Window automatically make one an extremist?
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Wouldn’t it make more sense to build the “City of the Future” in a place with more of a future, I.e. not in the middle of a desert?
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by anemoiac 5y ago
Not the OP here, but the answer seems like an obvious “yes” to me.
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by anemoiac 5y ago
It sounds to me like you're unaware of (or dismissive toward) the existing discourse around the topic of neoliberalism. Mises.org may view the term as a meaningless epithet leveled against their ideological kin by ignorant or irrelevan
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by anemoiac 5y ago
> Next, she labels Hayek as neoliberal. It is hard to take an article seriously if it cannot distinguish between laissez-faire capitalism and neoliberalism. This is a surprisingly common inaccurate generalization. I cannot help but wonde
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by anemoiac 5y ago
Some may be, but others are realizing the opposite.
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>> Sanders accused companies such as Walmart and McDonald’s of relying on “corporate welfare from the federal government by paying their workers starvation wages.” >This relies on a mistaken theory on how wages get set. No one gets
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by anemoiac 5y ago
> It is kind of selfish to be raised by past generation but not paying it back by raising the next generation. What would you say to those who consider having children the selfish decision?
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by anemoiac 5y ago
The article doesn't explain how this woman supposedly became homeless. Was she evicted from a property she was renting to live in? Did her bank foreclose on her residence? Given the moratorium on foreclosures and evictions, I'm no
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by anemoiac 5y ago
For the collapse community, that complexity is viewed as a major vulnerability. A classic text in their lexicon is anthropologist Joseph Tainter’s “The Collapse of Complex Societies,” which discusses complexity’s role in collapse (the TL;DR
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by anemoiac 5y ago
If I only had a downvote button… [sung to the tune of the scarecrow’s “If I Only Had a Brain,” from The Wizard of Oz]
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Of course, but that’s a simplistic perspective. Economics textbooks may presume that growth is always good, but growth must be balanced with its social and environmental impacts in the real world.
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I think the controversy here lies in assuming that "the economy" == society and that, therefore, anything that is "bad for the economy" is also bad for society. I'm not claiming this is your perspective, but the quo
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You’re not referring to North America, which has spent the past century propagandizing against socialism, I presume?
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by anemoiac 5y ago
The comment you’re responding to suggests that implementing certain societal changes would dramatically reduce crime. Your reply completely ignores their considerations and offers the status quo, I.e. a world completely lacking the changes
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Concentration of power wasn’t really possible when human nature, rather than technology (I.e. culture, civilization, the steam engine, etc.), was the primary determinant of human behavior. Anecdotally, most people’s perspectives on “human n

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