throwaway37585

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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Venezuela has a legitimate elected president You mean an illegitimate president: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuelan_presidential_electi... . > Brazil ousted a honest one You mean a corrupt one: https:&#x2
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Antimatter has opposite charge, not opposite mass. Antimatter is not antigravity.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Which comment do you consider incendiary? And two can play that game. Judging by your incendiary comment history on your account, why should I believe your question is in good faith? I love it when people comment on my account name as if
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> What entitles companies to hire cheap labor anyway? What entitles you to decide what labor companies hire?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Why do you think U.S. government healthcare spending would decrease if it had to cover more people?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> The US spends a disproportionate amount on healthcare because its system is privatized. Healthcare is cheaper relative to the degree of nationalization, as your own data shows. Switzerland and Germany are closed to the American model (
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> There isn't "still" slack, the slack is growing as the laborforce participation rate is lower today than it was in 2013. The labor force participation rate is currently about 62.8%. In 2013, it was at most about 63.8%, o
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> That’s the reality of privatized healthcare. What makes you say this a problem with "privatized healthcare" rather than a systemic problem with how it works in the U.S.?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
How is that an "indictment" of "the capitalist system"?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Interesting that you mention that. Relative to the size of its wealth, the U.S. spends a disproportionate amount on health care. Even as a high income country, the U.S. spends more per person on health than comparable countries. Total healt
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
The same article the GGP linked to explains why wages haven’t grown as quickly: Economists believe that the unemployment rate can dip even further because there's still slack in the job market. Productivity and inflation are lower tha
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Not the parent, but how about all of Western Europe? You're going to have to be more specific. What about "all of Western Europe"? > As much as economics wants to tout itself as a science Is this going to be a game
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Chavez and Maduro are not leftist. Are you serious? Do you know anything about the beloved "Bolivarian Revolution" and its policies?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> More than half of the country support the government Please provide a credible source for this claim.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Brazil is a real dictatorship, Venezuela isn't What's your evidence for this outrageous claim?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
One of the most important lessons of economics is that “good intent” does not always mean “good results”. Do you have any reason to believe that higher taxes and spending will lead to better outcomes, or higher net societal welfare? Conside
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> taxes and regulation are substantially lower than periods of broader prosperity Source?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> first thing that came to mind was how anti-communism played out in vietnam, chicago boys of chile, and the contras in nicaragua What does this have to do with the Chicago school or libertarianism? > you could also argue the underde
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> Lowest unemployment rate since 1969 > an indicator that our current ideology... is broken Read the very article you linked to: The jobless rate ticked down to 3.8% in May, another sign of the strong economy and tight labor market.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
How is this relevant to my question? This is a classic case of "I'm going to cite bad statistics and blame X without explaining its causal relevance or why not-X would be better."
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> I meant counting in the broadest sense, which is where numbers themselves emerge from. Are you asking how define quantity without quantity? Also, I think it's fair to say there are quantities that no human has ever "experienc
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Just wanted to say there's nothing wrong or embarrassing about sharing our mistakes. Take heart in the likelihood that, by sharing this, you've probably saved a reader from a similar injury.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
Why is this (or the demo I linked to earlier) not a satisfactory representation? https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-1ab704621d3c845630ab6f... .
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> is the idea of "quantity" anything more than a human abstraction? What, to you, would not qualify as a human abstraction? > How do you define quantity, and can you do it without the notion of counting and discrete object
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
What's the rest mass of a photon? What's the electric charge of a neutrino? What's the spin of a Higgs boson?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> If the universe is not truly quantized... mathematics is not related to physical reality How does that follow? Mathematics is perfectly capable of modeling continuous quantities.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
What makes you say the "chigago-libertarian ideology" is not credible, let alone "inflicted misery" on people?
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
1. Unfair according to whom? You're presenting your opinion as if it were fact. 2. To put it bluntly, the fact that you equate tax incentives with direct subsidies suggests you don't understand economics. https://mises.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
You don’t seem to know what the word “protectionism” means. Tax incentives are not protectionism.
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by throwaway37585 8y ago
> an abuse of privelege What privilege?

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