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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Replying to @briandavidearp
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 @briandavidearp
...quote tweeting the phrase only returns me this article, in fact! ....
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Replying to @lastpositivist @briandavidearp
And then in the details it misrepresents concerns, e.g. the left concern with TPP really focussed on the idea (how accurate a characterisation of the TPP I can’t say) of companies being able to sue governments for harming their profit line, not generic opposition to free trade...
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Replying to @lastpositivist @briandavidearp
... so worry isn’t that it gets the econ wrong, so much as fails to address people’s positions. Sorry about the tweetstorm!
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No thank you for tweetstorm! That’s exactly the kind of perspective I was trying to get - really appreciate it
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