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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13, @01:52PM
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by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday March 13, @01:52PM (#1396242)
You are the user that argues about quality of life going down whenever people discuss moving away from oil and gas. Now suddenly it is fine no big deal.
What a ridiculous display of propaganda rhetoric from a super cereal non trumper.
You are the user that argues about quality of life going down whenever people discuss moving away from oil and gas. Now suddenly it is fine no big deal.
No. I argue that we have plenty of real world examples where quality of life went down because we moved away from oil and gas in an incompetent manner. That's the same problem here. I support systems that naturally generate better quality of life, not systems where you have to borrow ever increasing amounts to maintain a particular standard of quality of life.
Here's the takeaway that I want you to get. Economics is called the "dismal science" in large part because it's often about how you can't always get what you want, and sometimes the straightforward-appearing path doesn't go where you think it should. What other field has to repeatedly deal with people who say "I want X", try to force the economy to give them X, and then are surprised when the economy changes in a way that X doesn't happen? Physics doesn't have to deal with the inevitable treatises on why greed is bad either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13, @04:46PM
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by Anonymous Coward
on Thursday March 13, @04:46PM (#1396261)
You are slow on the uptake if you are just figuring out that economics is not real science. Physics sure does impact your Greed Is Good philosophy. Unless you are God, which often seems to be your position
Look up the definition of science. Economics as a typical empirical study checks off the boxes. Past that, there's nothing serious in your post. All I can say is that this is a really dumb excuse for being ignorant about economics. Given the sudden drop in the intelligence of the AC posts I I can only surmise that you're my stalker AC again. Ever thought about getting a life?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13, @01:52PM (4 children)
You are the user that argues about quality of life going down whenever people discuss moving away from oil and gas. Now suddenly it is fine no big deal.
What a ridiculous display of propaganda rhetoric from a super cereal non trumper.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 13, @02:55PM (3 children)
No. I argue that we have plenty of real world examples where quality of life went down because we moved away from oil and gas in an incompetent manner. That's the same problem here. I support systems that naturally generate better quality of life, not systems where you have to borrow ever increasing amounts to maintain a particular standard of quality of life.
Here's the takeaway that I want you to get. Economics is called the "dismal science" in large part because it's often about how you can't always get what you want, and sometimes the straightforward-appearing path doesn't go where you think it should. What other field has to repeatedly deal with people who say "I want X", try to force the economy to give them X, and then are surprised when the economy changes in a way that X doesn't happen? Physics doesn't have to deal with the inevitable treatises on why greed is bad either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 13, @04:46PM (2 children)
You are slow on the uptake if you are just figuring out that economics is not real science. Physics sure does impact your Greed Is Good philosophy. Unless you are God, which often seems to be your position
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 13, @06:29PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 20, @04:34PM
Science: magic word used by libertarians to confirm or deny their personal feelings