One of the things that really got me thinking about how liberal solutions are inadequate was a public finance course at uni that laid out all the ways regulations fail, get captured, and increase barriers to entry for new firms; how large firms have a concentrated interest in not accounting for their externalities while everyone affected by them has a very small interest with significant opportunity costs to trying to correct them; and other honestly difficult problems for the efficient functioning of a market and society. I'd really recommend looking into some of that stuff because it engages with the sort of evidence and numbers based evaluations of policy that libs love while making it pretty clear that there are fundamental problems with how we try to address them.
Absolutely. That's why I think explaining how distributing externality costs across a large number of people affects the incentive structure is so important to do at the same time.
Truth, in any setting either with or without a legal structure in place large corporate interests would always have an interest in creating stopping blocks to capital accumulation for others and that there is no gary stu-esque Howard Roark (who is a hyper capitalist superman yet also charitable? fuck Rand is such a shit writer...) that could ever overcome such realities. Only via organized suppression and dismantling of these systems that allow such wealth accumulation can this perpetual game of capital/power dominance be stopped.
One of my close friends is like that, but they’re more “vote blue no matter who” Obama lib. Love to finger wag whenever I like, add a pint of ice cream to the grocery list or replace my old phone because it’s bougie to own luxury goods and you can’t have luxury goods in communism or whatever.
Infuriating to talk to sometimes, but I’m hoping to drag them further left. They keep hoping I’ll deradicalize but that train has left the station.
he imagines himself to be the true adult in the room when we talk and will inundate me with centrist cliches
Just spam a clip of the movie They Live where the protagonist beats the hell out of his smart friend to make him see reality, Zizek on pure ideology etc
dunno man part of it is explaining how crony capitalism ect aren’t simply the excesses of a fine system but are inherent to our mode of production
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Imo I had success with pointing to inevitability of crony capitalism and how regulatory solutions fail because of the profit motives/lobbying etc
One of the things that really got me thinking about how liberal solutions are inadequate was a public finance course at uni that laid out all the ways regulations fail, get captured, and increase barriers to entry for new firms; how large firms have a concentrated interest in not accounting for their externalities while everyone affected by them has a very small interest with significant opportunity costs to trying to correct them; and other honestly difficult problems for the efficient functioning of a market and society. I'd really recommend looking into some of that stuff because it engages with the sort of evidence and numbers based evaluations of policy that libs love while making it pretty clear that there are fundamental problems with how we try to address them.
Watch out though, just going down the regulatory capture route could led to a lib becoming a libertarian (or as I call it a TBI).
Absolutely. That's why I think explaining how distributing externality costs across a large number of people affects the incentive structure is so important to do at the same time.
Truth, in any setting either with or without a legal structure in place large corporate interests would always have an interest in creating stopping blocks to capital accumulation for others and that there is no gary stu-esque Howard Roark (who is a hyper capitalist superman yet also charitable? fuck Rand is such a shit writer...) that could ever overcome such realities. Only via organized suppression and dismantling of these systems that allow such wealth accumulation can this perpetual game of capital/power dominance be stopped.
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One of my close friends is like that, but they’re more “vote blue no matter who” Obama lib. Love to finger wag whenever I like, add a pint of ice cream to the grocery list or replace my old phone because it’s bougie to own luxury goods and you can’t have luxury goods in communism or whatever.
Infuriating to talk to sometimes, but I’m hoping to drag them further left. They keep hoping I’ll deradicalize but that train has left the station.
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Just spam a clip of the movie They Live where the protagonist beats the hell out of his smart friend to make him see reality, Zizek on pure ideology etc
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