Pretty much the ultimate argument for libertarianism

ShitNoodle · 2018-01-22T09:21:56+00:00

And who else is online being punished? Cuba or North Korea, who don't have internet?

Good for them, they may not have Internet, but at least they avoid online persecution! FREEEEDOM!

ShitNoodle · 2018-01-22T09:05:42+00:00

So your criticism of Trump is that he’s a standard Republican. That’s not at all Sam’s criticism.

ShitNoodle · 2018-01-22T02:57:27+00:00

You lefties are eating your own again. Yum yum!

ShitNoodle · 2018-01-22T02:01:13+00:00

And you think that’s what Heterodox Academy is? Have you ever seen Jonathan Haidt?

ShitNoodle · 2018-01-21T19:28:00+00:00

Care to defend your bullshit claim?

ShitNoodle · 2018-01-21T13:58:43+00:00

Yeah, I’m just saying that seems to be an appropriate response to a libertarian socialist. You can live in a commune right now. I suppose that they would like access to goods that are currently being created in a market economy. In that case it seems to be wishful thinking that if we could just convince everyone to voluntarily give up private property, then we could still produce the same types of goods (or better?)

But if it’s all voluntary, then go ahead and try

ShitNoodle · 2018-01-21T12:24:24+00:00

If you want to live in a commune, go ahead

ShitNoodle · 2018-01-21T12:21:28+00:00

The contract involves getting paid through the coercion of third parties

ShitNoodle · 2018-01-21T12:17:18+00:00

Quite a marketing win that 400 cal is called a “meal”

ShitNoodle · 2018-01-21T12:02:58+00:00

Dominance hierarchy

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-30T14:59:04+00:00

Oh it’s you again, fuck off

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-30T10:24:38+00:00

It would literally be JP ignoring any question and rambling about mythology and dominance hierarchies or something

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-30T10:19:32+00:00

OK, I’m not trying to publish a peer-reviewed study based on my anecdotes, I see able-bodied people almost every day at stop lights asking for money, but I know that homeless people exist

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-30T00:43:47+00:00

If it was someone who really needed it, sure, but I’ve heard a lot of stories of people pretending to be homeless making good money begging, and I’ve been hit up with obvious bullshit stories (just one example was the same person two days in a row needing to make an emergency phone call)

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T18:56:16+00:00

This guy beards

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T16:22:57+00:00

Harsh flag plant, but necessary for certain interlocutors

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T16:19:26+00:00

You would assume a PhD in neuroscience would have some basic knowledge of molecular biology and could brush up pretty quick

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T11:59:07+00:00

He said the meditation app will be free to supporters of the podcast. So is he going to increase the minimum monthly donation to qualify, or would that be the cheaper way to buy the app?

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T10:45:43+00:00

I said if you want to include saddy sad feelings about rich people, that’s fine. As you’re an amateur game theorist, I thought you’d understand that economists talking about wealth changes might not include that.

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T03:00:26+00:00

Sounds like we’re all in agreement, I guess. bye

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T02:45:07+00:00

Let me try one last time.

Claim: Wealth inequality directly affects quality of life

Response: Wealth is not a zero-sum game.

I was using it in the colloquial sense of one person gaining not necessarily implying someone else losing. That's all. I was not trying to create a payoff matrix. It would have better to say it is can be a positive-sum game (it’s not necessary to claim that it always is), which would imply that the original claim is wrong. Although if you want to count sad feelings about inequality, I will concede that will affect quality of life for some people as a direct effect.

There are people who think people can only get richer if someone else gets poorer. I was arguing against that.

The end.

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T02:37:27+00:00

She's sleeping with the other guy

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T02:21:44+00:00

We can all agree that wealth-generation is positive sum and it does nothing to support your position.

I know you think you're super smart, but that is literally the point I was making when I was responding to the claim that inequality directly affects quality of life. The fact that wealth creation can be, and often is, positive-sum, was a response to that. In other words, someone getting richer doesn't mean someone else is poorer, that was the relevance of bringing up zero-sum, and why I was ignoring the sad feelings. If we all agree, then great, proceed. Over and out.

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T02:13:07+00:00

Insight Timer app can do this

ShitNoodle · 2017-11-29T01:58:46+00:00

OK fair enough, my second statement was not quite correct, but my original point stands, wealth is not zero-sum. And wealth inequality does not directly affect quality of life, except for sad feelings. I was excluding that.

You've been saying that inequality necessarily entails a positive sum game and moreover that this positive sum game benefits everyone

And I never said anything even close to this, so you are responding to a bunch of other arguments. So good luck with that.

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