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Aella
@Aella_Girl
The kind of economic views that get heavily upvoted on Reddit really terrify me, because I view it as an indication of the future as our generations age. They don't even seem like economic views, but rather moral values wearing the clothes of economic opinions.
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@Aella_Girl
It's basically "rich=bad, poor=victims" and making policy moves based off of this extremely simplistic rule is going to fuck us so hard.
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@Aella_Girl
Our economic system is so delicate and so mindblowingly complex and trying to 'fix' things according to your personal simplistic and moralistic story is like clipping the toes off a cat or breeding pugs till they can't breathe because "I like it better that way"
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@DiracWinsAgain
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@Aella_Girl
Agree with that the system is complicated, and that interventions have been, on balance, harmful. But I reject that it is "delicate". It is extremely resilient and has routed around damage very effectively. If it wasn't it would have collapsed under our nonsense long ago.
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@Aella_Girl
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@DiracWinsAgain
Fair, tho tbf i don't know what the control is. It's possible that our economy would be so great we'd be colonizing other planets by this point and had eradicated all disease and poverty but it's so 'delicate' that our fuckups have kept us bumping around at this level.
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