The libertarian technical retort that ‘but The Nation doesn’t pay baseball players’ is leaving even me cold You guys know what he means, he’s talking about priorities and allocation, even I think he has a point as far as it goeshttps://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1129791583220588546 …
I've gotten a *lot* less sympathetic to it over time. It's purely an envy play and it's a non-sequitur. Arouse envy in the audience - "baseball players make millions playing a children's game" then justify it with something unrelated - teacher salaries
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Meanwhile this is what every public employee program looks like when examined https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/nyregion/mta-overtime.html …
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This is the same trick that communists used - "the rich stole from you, we'll take from them and make you well off" but it's washed for a rich society where a naked appeal to greed is unseemly so it's washed into some sainted object but the real impulse is the envy
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