Reading silliness like this is useful as an object-lesson. It reminds me just how awful people are at summarising their opponents' position. The enforced discipline of a charity norm, as in analytic philosophy, would be good for discourse more generally.https://quillette.com/2018/07/17/the-inequality-demagogues/ …
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Replying to @lastpositivist
I don’t know anything about economics - can you recommend a source that you think gets this discussion right? (And maybe say more about what you see as the silliness in this one?)
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The deep law of twitter that there’s always someone defending anything (intro logic exercises to formalise that sentence!) and I’m sure the ideas here are no different. But I’m reasonably tapped into left culture and I’ve literally never heard of ‘Boost, Protect, and Generate’...
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Replying to @lastpositivist
I’d never heard of it either!
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