Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/r8qgrq/eat_the_rich/hn9158u/

THE FORCE OF COMPETITION, BABY holy fucking shit these people are out here comparing gravity to some economist masturbation fantasy bullshit

  • ferristriangle [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    It's also just stupid because his claims are unrelated to the data.

    The argument is basically "If you do thing to data, a pattern emerges."

    And then, "This value we've created we've created is what creates economic growth."

    With absolutely no rationale for how you get from point A to point B. All he did was provide a conjecture. He doesn't reference any data or research that shows a bigger wealth gap being correlated with higher net productivity. He's just assuming that it's true.

    • AncomCosmonaut [he/him,any]
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      3 years ago

      Yes, well said. And some of that is what I was trying to get at in my weird long-winded way.

      Also, I just really really hate what Malthusian economics did to so many people and the suffering it caused (and is causing) because of a bourgsie stemlord who thought he had all the answers to human population and everyone believed his utter, cruel, nihilistic and flat wrong bullshit for a couple hundred years. And this nonsense really does just reek of that specific kind of faulty thinking imo.

      • JuneFall [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Mathus was a desaster for the human race.

        Also malthus was used for centuries by :TERF-island: to justify purging people the rulers didn't like.