Ridiculous libertarian "thinking" at @reason: "Americans now are told that "the poor get poorer," but it's not true. Americans are 30 times richer than we were 200 years ago. When America began, rich people were poorer than poor people are today."https://reason.com/2021/04/28/society-is-richer-and-more-accepting-thanks-to-libertarian-ideas/ …
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Did Benjamin Franklin have an iPhone 12? Could he Skype with his friends in France? didn't think so. Checkmate, libruls.
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Excellent point.
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"Tommy can't access healthcare, has inadequate shelter, and often goes hungry, but it's okay because he has an MP3 player. Did you know that 200 years ago even the very wealthy didn't have MP3 players???"
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And Tommy will live to 85. Did you know that 200 years ago even the very rich we’re lucky to make it to 40.
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There's so much wrong with this, but let's start with pretending to be some kind of intellectual magazine and publishing John Stossel in the first place.
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There are far fewer people living in poverty today than at any time in history. You might want to stick to your areas of expertise. Just as law profs and economists shouldn’t make uninformed statements about medical issues, neither should physicians about about economic data.
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None of this is a good argument that libertarian ideas are responsible for this.

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And I say this as a long time reader of Respectful Insolence. I have a lot of respect for your medical opinions. Your pronouncements in my area of expertise (I teach Development Economics)? Not so much.
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Er...I’m relatively poor and I sure as hell would choose it over being rich in 1820.
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i would prefer my life over lots of others throughout history does that mean everything is fine and i am not allowed to want something better?
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