Jean-Baptiste Say

I contain platitudes.

[Jean-Baptiste Say @JeanBapSay]

Book Recommendations:

We The Living:

https://t.co/KJo14DtxbB

Economics in One Lesson:

https://t.co/yhBHTj3qBV

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@MentisWave Virtually no one actually staves to death in the developed world. People pretetend this is a real thing that happens because they want to hate rich people.

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@dyingscribe "I love you"

"You are a terrible judge of character"

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@iyaelsorai @Aella_Girl It's short for "chicken and curry." All the slutty rationalist girls eat it for some reason.

No need to look it up.

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@dannycantalk "Failure is not un-Russian"

- Ayn Rand

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@dannycantalk If God is omnipotent he can just will his subjective preferences into being objective truths.

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@PunishedErik "BILLIONS MUST HIDE"

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@DanielJHannan See all the late night comedians that consistently trend with 20k views per video.

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@DanielJHannan The sentiment expressed by the government is very bad, but this is not going to achieve anything. Youtube already does this and it turns out puting something on the front page does not magically make people want to watch it.

[Aella @Aella_Girl]

the more i learn about history, the more I appreciate America. America is actually an extremely cool and special anomaly in the timeline of civilizations. It's so successful that it's allowed the people inside it to lose touch with how bad things can truly be

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I think I just had my first hot-dog in three years.

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@dannycantalk Also under socialist systems all of these people more or less have the same relative place in the pecking order they do under capitalism. All the rungs are just lower in absolute terms.

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

An interesting counterfactual. Coolidge believed the market was overpriced but he wouldn’t have been able to prevent the October 1929 crash had he still be president.

But, he wouldn’t have pursued Hoover/FDR-style policies that prolonged the downturn. It’s possible that with Coolidge at the helm it would have been a deep recession followed by a strong recovery.

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@Aella_Girl I don't know if any of them will be able to stop dissociating long enough to do that.

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@deathmetalv10 @xwanyex Yes.

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I have the ominous feeling that the median human being on Earth is basically just an LLM programmed to generate lazy rationalizations for stealing shit.

[Void @ImaginaryVoid]

The better question is how to combat it

“We just have to show them more statistics and studies” is very clearly not an effective strategy for the average voter, so… what is?

Massive pro-land chad propaganda?

There’s just no real breaking through this guttural “this person has more than me, and is making money off my existence, I despise them and don’t care if I make their life harder if it makes mine easier” because they won’t feel the second order effects anytime soon or they’ll just jump ship somewhere else

It’s very parasitic and a problem of one man one vote

[DannyCanTalk 🌈 @dannycantalk]

People often say that socialists are economically illiterate, but that suggests they just lack education.

The things they say make no economic sense even if you have zero economic education.

When someone points out that under rent control, landlords will have less money with which to upkeep their properties, how could someone unironically think that "but they're legally required to do it anyway" is a legitimate response? How could he reply to "they can't" with "but they have to"?

They're not just uneducated about economics. They are actively resistant to engaging in any economic thought. They selectively pretend that scarcity doesn't exist in order to maintain their preferred political stances.

You can't fix that with education.

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"I can't believe Cuba whored itself out to America just for electricity and penicillin"

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@MentisWave I think they will just experience no good feeling at the improvement of Cuban living conditions and just decide they hate Cuba now.

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@MentisWave I think they will just experience no good feeling at the improvement of Cuban living conditions and just decide they hate Cuba now.

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@ChrisWillx "Gross" is kind of ambiguous.