• axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    Liberal economics responding to Marxism is always some hypothetical like "Ok imagine you're thirsty in the desert, but you only have two cows and your neighbor opens a flower shop."

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      9 months ago

      "Enough with your real world evidence. Let's try a hypothetical I made up whole-cloth" isn't really the intellectual zinger they think it is.

    • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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      8 months ago

      "How am I raising cows in the desert?"

      "What? That's not important."

      "Couldn't I just ask the flower shop owner for water? You kinda need an excess of water to run a flower shop... Also how are they running a flower shop in the des..."

      "SHUT UP!"

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        "That's not relevant."

        "So wait, what parts ARE relevant? Only the parts which, devoid of any context or any prior material condition, support your world view, but any reasonable outside conditions which would cause your point to collapse are irrelevant?"

        "Yes, exactly. Now you're getting it."