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 …
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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No argument I guess what I’m interested in is how best to address Bernie’s point politically, granting the childlike-economics he phrases it in The principle is, ‘education is an important thing, society should do it right’ What’s a righty implementation of this? not clear
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Looking at education is falling for the trick - the thing Sanders is using to assuage the guilt in his audience over making a naked appeal to envy - which is very ugly. There'll always *something* for those people to point to assuage the audience
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