• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    You guys are really bad at understanding basic economy theory.

    It works on supply and demand and assumes that everyone works rationally and with full knowledge.

    The invisible hand of the market finding the optimal solution is basically the 0th law of capitalism.

    Now economic policy, you’ll be amazed to understand is about fixing inefficiencies that do not allow for optimal conditions. Tonnes of people go learn about what are the issues with capitalism and how to make it better, that’s what economic testing is about. That’s why it’s better than socialism because it’s competitive and strives for change.

    If people are forced to work for poverty wages then they are losing their true value and capitalism would be about trying to fix that value. If everyone had UBI that would equate the negotiating position of workers and they wouldn’t have to take poverty wages. That’s why UBI is the capitalist solution to that problem in capitalism. It allows to market to work the way economists want it to work.

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      8 months ago

      Ah, so the economists you paid someone to tell you to read are better than the ones they read on their own.

      Hey, what’s your contribution to the field?

      I’m interested in reading a book of yours.

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        8 months ago

        Ah, so the economists you paid someone to tell you to read are better than the ones they read on their own.

        In short yes. There have been a 1000 years of development into the formal education system. That has lead to the industrial revolution and other other countless things.

        Youtube videos are great but it’s not quite the same.

        Hey, what’s your contribution to the field?

        Fuck all. But it doesn’t mean my knowledge of the field isn’t in the top 1% of the world.

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          8 months ago

          Bro, you’re out here saying Marx was a 1000 year old pre-industrial economist… Might want to reconsider your placement in the rankings.

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              8 months ago

              Oh, wow, your point was even worse then. At least there’s some validity to calling Marxist models outdated, but trying to pull an appeal to authority from the University of Bologna is a pretty big stretch.

              Idk man, maybe if you decide to continue your education so you can contribute to your field put a little more thought into the biases in your studies and reflect on the Socratic definition of wisdom?