eschevarria

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by eschevarria 4y ago
Economic growth caused these things to go up; the governments (which also existed in past periods of human existence) caused growth to be much slower than it could have been. Don’t confuse government causing a increase in government spendi
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by eschevarria 8y ago
> There is no doubt about that Yes there is. Look up dominant assurance contracts. Why is it that people don't even think there could be doubt that the fundamental idea of copyright is sound? Why do they not look up if there have
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by eschevarria 8y ago
> A lot of people don't have a choice otherwise, except homelessness and poverty. Not exactly a 'free' system. Right. The system we are in is not a free system and those are indeed problems with this system. > Runaway f
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by eschevarria 8y ago
The states you mention are not socialist. They all rank high on the Economic Freedom of the World Index and on the Index of Economic Freedom . It is not even clear that they can be called social democracies.
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by eschevarria 8y ago
Capitalism gives people the full fruits of their labor except when they voluntarily decide to give the fruits of their labor to someone else, possibly in exchange for something. Why would anyone do this? Specialization and trade. Maybe they
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by eschevarria 8y ago
Capitalism is not compatible with forced labor. It may be compatible with slavery if you define slavery in a way that includes consensual labor. Systems that are partly capitalist may be compatible with forced labor, but in this case the
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by eschevarria 8y ago
> Specifically that the only manner in which lowering taxes is proven as a cause of economic growth is when economic growth is defined as growing individual bank accounts of an increasingly smaller proportion of the population? You say
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by eschevarria 8y ago
> Do you have any evidence for these simplistic Econ101 theories? Yes, deductive logic. Way better than empirical studies, if that's what you were looking for. You only need the assumption that demand curves in the labor market slo
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by eschevarria 8y ago
That the distribution of the benefits is done according to supply and demand has most certainly not been debunked either. Wages are decided by the labor market equilibrium, not individually by employers. And economic growth is not a matter
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by eschevarria 8y ago
Deadweight losses from taxes have most certainly not been debunked.
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by eschevarria 8y ago
That people who complain about taxes get some utility from the government activities funded by these taxes does not imply that they are better off with the combination of the services and the taxes than without. If this argument is meant to
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by eschevarria 9y ago
The New York Magazine is not research. Want to know what the actual research says? Look at figure 10.1 on page 690 of the IPCC’s AR5 WG II report. As it shows, most of the studies on the total impact of climate change for increases between
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by eschevarria 9y ago
“In February 2009, a Twitter user called @popelizbet issued an apparently historic challenge to someone called Colin: she asked if he could ‘mansplain’ a concept to her. History has not recorded if he did, indeed, proceed to mansplain. But