The Embittered Economist

I search for an anti-socialist who understands economics, but only find echoes pretending to be minds.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

Understanding Market Socialism 101...

My experience is that anti-socialists are stuck in the 1970s: arguing against rationing bread & nationalisation. None of this is proposed, but the caricature is far easier than engaging with contemporary debates over ownership.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@kein_unfug @brushmastery2 You don't know what socialism is, do you?

Waste of space.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@ArchieHall @TheEconomist You'd have thought a writer for the Economist would know how to bleedin define socialism...

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@DAlanBaker Thomas, mind you, has no economic means to reject the feasibility of socialism.

That's rather revealing...

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@MDGreekGirl1 @HelenM17813215 @itsryanrandall @thedailybeast @Furbeti Already encountered Helen. They have no understanding of economics and just spread misinformation.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@reformparty_uk's patriotism is all bunting and no belonging: a Union Jack suit shouting "take back Britain" while the landowning class keeps the gates locked.

They wrap themselves in the flag, then tell you 92% of the country beneath it is none of your business. Mugs.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@OrealistMarcus @TurnSeattleRed @MayraFlores4TX You're offering misinformation by deliberating restricting comment to a static redistribution. That's not where the economic gain comes from: it's through a dynamic reduction in rent-seeking power: from reducing corruption of markets to government policy itself.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@Defederate Anti-socialism is largely the means to push false class consciousness through crass definition failure.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@SwissLiberty @MocklerHQ What gutrot! Roosevelt's conservatism meant Keynesianism can only be applied from WW2...

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@MrStakamoto Anti-socialism is a means to practice inane cliché.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@OrealistMarcus @TurnSeattleRed @MayraFlores4TX Never met an anti-socialist who understands socialism...

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@gprabaka @omgsidewalks Ramble as economic rent is the norm. This is necessarily inefficient profit through underpayment.

And that's accepted by economic orthodoxy...

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@4PrivateCitizen @ChristineKayNow That was your last chance. I hate pig ignorance.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@4PrivateCitizen @ChristineKayNow Another stupid comment. It's not my fault that I'm educated in economics and you're not.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@4PrivateCitizen @ChristineKayNow More tiresome guff. No credible economist would state free markets are possible. You'd have to ignore all of modern economics.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@4PrivateCitizen @ChristineKayNow More misinformation. First, we know that it's social democratic countries which max self-employment rates. Second, 'govt=socialism' is a basic error. See state capitalism Vs market socialism.

You're boring me.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@4PrivateCitizen @ChristineKayNow There's no opposite to free markets (except in textbooks). Free markets aren't possible and pursuing them is just cretinous.

Not sure why you insist on pursuing nonsensical argument.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@gprabaka @omgsidewalks It's maximising profit through economic rent...

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@4PrivateCitizen @ChristineKayNow Repetition of drivel. For a start you're not referring to economic freedom. Note that neoliberal countries have low self-employment rates. There's no freedom, guaranteeing wage underpayment.

[The Embittered Economist @EmbitteredThe]

@4PrivateCitizen @ChristineKayNow Of course market fundamentalism is nonsense. And of course they know it leads to cronyism. Market fundamentalist organisations, after all, are funded by big business.