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 …
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Replying to @soncharm
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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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @soncharm
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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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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Ultimately the only winning move is to make the audience seem like envy driven losers for hating baseball players for being successful and even that isn't going to work that well because people would rather not believe something bad about themselves if they can avoid it
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