An economist is someone who, when asked if the slaves should be freed, tells you whether freeing them will cause the GDP to go up or down.
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Probably true, but I'm willing to learn.
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sure. thumbnail: we do tend to separate normative ("is it good") questions from positive ("what will happen"), since we don't claim to have\
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any special knowledge of what's good. that said, we also tend to frame questions as "what will make people better-off", and for slavery to \
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be the answer to the question compared to "not slavery" generally requires a rotten definition of "people," in a GIGO sort of way.
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thanks for asking, and sorry to have been snippy :)
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Tnx, I already knew most of it, I guess. I was just playing the game. And I can bear Twitter snippiness. Bye
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