I can't even. I mean, @JohnStossel is basically arguing that the poor today should be happy because the poor 200 years ago were much worse off than they are now and that we should ignore the wealth gap because 200 years ago the rich couldn't get what the poor can now. 

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Replying to @gorskon @JohnStossel
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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Replying to @NitaGhei @JohnStossel
None of this is a good argument that libertarian ideas are responsible for this.
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Replying to @gorskon @JohnStossel
Libertarian ideas are what? There is a spectrum. And we might well be talking past each other. People often think AnCap when they say libertarian. Pretty sure that isn’t what Stossel means. He is not hard core. But increasing the space for peaceful and voluntary exchange is good.
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So we are to just ignore the American libertarian embrace of Mises (the crank of praxeology), Hayek & Rothbard ideology going for decades? FFS, Stossel is barking the same crap as the Mises foundation.
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For my part, libertarians lost me when they declared war on
@US_FDA and started making the BS argument that the FDA is "killing people" by being too slow to approve new drugs. And it IS a BS argument. From six years ago:https://respectfulinsolence.com/2014/10/28/ebola-right-to-try-laws-and-placebo-legislation/ …1 reply 3 retweets 12 likes -
Replying to @gorskon @Adrian7745 and
Then, of course, there's the way that, even before the pandemic, antivax views had found a cosy home among libertarians, such that libertarians who aren't antivaccine ended up getting attacked if they expressed support for vaccine mandates.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2013/12/18/why-are-antivaccinationists-so-at-home-with-libertarianism/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @Adrian7745 and
The vax question is a hard one, philosophically. It’s actually a big split in the movement. I am not a big L libertarian. I vax, and fully support vaccination. Forcibly vaxing someone is a violation of NAP; but so is that that person shedding virus. So, I don’t know ?
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Replying to @NitaGhei @Adrian7745 and
It's more than the vaccine question. Libertarians have gone so far as to claim that
@US_FDA is unnecessary and that drug safety and effectiveness can be evaluated using an@Uber or@Yelp for drugs.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/donald-trump-vs-the-fda-be-afraid-be-very-afraid-of-the-loosening-of-drug-approval-standards/ …3 replies 3 retweets 12 likes -
These would be the same libertarians that think that we do not need the FAA because if airliners crash then the public will determine which airlines to fly on in future.
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Yes, they would, and the same ones who claim that private certification agencies would pop up to replace the government ones.
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