This is peak Online Populist Right: * complete economic ignorance * incorrect assertion of motives * allegation of Godlessness 2021 is so stupid https://twitter.com/nordicwetback/status/1402851077817573384 …
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2/ I absolutely agree that free trade in X, for any X, undermines some other Y. e.g. trade in property means people move away from their relatives and neighbors, which hurts social cohesiveness OTOH...sometimes Y is itself good for some, bad for othershttps://twitter.com/nothinggate/status/1402974962084945930 …
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3/ lack of free trade in property would mean that I would still live near my parents, which might improve their happiness by 5% ...but being forced to live in suburban NJ would harm my happiness by 95%. So Polanyi may be correct, but ... !@#$ that guy.
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4/ I am, to some degree, an example of the "rootless cosmopolitan" that many fascist adjacent online trads hate. I live 300 miles / 5 hr drive from where I grew up, I have no family closer than that, I married a woman who grew up 800 miles from there, bought didn't inherit land
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5/ whenever you see a proposal to reduce market freedom, the motivation is almost always some sort of subsidy / transfer from party X to party Y ... with about 95% of the value being lit on fire in the process far better to just transfer the money directly
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