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Idk how we're so sensitive to sexual consent as a culture but seem to completely lack the concept of economic consent

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Aug 27, 2020

There is a looting in downtown Minneapolis every single day. Downtown is, in fact, a monument to looting. It doesn’t look like broken glass and missing mannequins. It looks like US Bank Stadium & the Wells Fargo Center & the high rises & city hall.

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5:45 PM · Aug 30, 2020

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To clarify - the very important distinction between looting and businesses is that one operates on consent of the customers, the other does not. But it's like people aren't even aware that the difference in consent is important here??

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In economics, almost everyone agrees with "Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?".

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Robin Hanson made a similar point about redistribution lol

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I don't think anyone consented to have their livelihood burned down. No, insurance isn't a get out of crime free card.

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It's hard to reason clearly about economic consent when your whole society depends on its violation. If the government collected sexual taxes there might be similar confusion about the importance of sexual consent.

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Isnt that true of taxes too? I'm sure a lot of people dont like the government forces them to give up 30 percent of their paychecks by force.

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Property is theft.* On the other hand rioting gets Trump reelected. Quite the problem. *May require one or more post-graduate degrees to really put this one over.

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It's almost like nobody has ptsd because someone took a percentage of their paycheck.