Posted: Mar 20, 2010 12:07 am
Austrian School is the most appaling Psedoscience, even to the casual observer.
I had an argument with youtube user shanedk.
One of the positions he advanced was that Capitalism didnt cause slavery, I took issue with this.
He insisted that under capitalism everyone is free. Where people are forced, its corporatism.
I found this line pretty suspect. It was sounding deliberately unfalsifiable but I didnt have my bullshit detector that finely tuned. I pointed out that the term of Corporatism so broad to be effectively useless. My experience was full of Socialism being bandied about, it could refer to central planning & 5 year plans, or "Social Justice".
So I asked him where he got his definition from...
He got *really* shitty with me at that, insisted that he could define things however he wanted.
The real story is he is of the Austrian School persuasion. Not coming clean, about the origin shows he is embarrassed in some way or a plagiarist.
At some point I said Economics was a fundamentalist religion.
A specific point of objection I had to the obsession with Liberty based on property, was the phenomenon of SUVs/4wheeldrives. Basically, government regulation is totally necessary because the possession of over-sized vehicles is an imposition & safety issue & environmental problem on everyone else. His counter argument was private ownership of roads with tolls and an incentive to keep the traffic clear, presumably, the owner of the road could charge higher or refuse access to SUV/4WDs.
I could not understand how anyone could take this garbage so seriously. I had encountered Monetarism & the New Right, simultaneously demanding lower taxes, & demanding anything the State owned that was profitable be sold off, at a loss.
Then someone gave me an Epiphany, They used the word Propertarianism. And I came across a quote from someone
"Most men want not liberty, but license."
Im a "Statist" & Proud.
I had an argument with youtube user shanedk.
One of the positions he advanced was that Capitalism didnt cause slavery, I took issue with this.
He insisted that under capitalism everyone is free. Where people are forced, its corporatism.
I found this line pretty suspect. It was sounding deliberately unfalsifiable but I didnt have my bullshit detector that finely tuned. I pointed out that the term of Corporatism so broad to be effectively useless. My experience was full of Socialism being bandied about, it could refer to central planning & 5 year plans, or "Social Justice".
So I asked him where he got his definition from...
He got *really* shitty with me at that, insisted that he could define things however he wanted.
The real story is he is of the Austrian School persuasion. Not coming clean, about the origin shows he is embarrassed in some way or a plagiarist.
At some point I said Economics was a fundamentalist religion.
A specific point of objection I had to the obsession with Liberty based on property, was the phenomenon of SUVs/4wheeldrives. Basically, government regulation is totally necessary because the possession of over-sized vehicles is an imposition & safety issue & environmental problem on everyone else. His counter argument was private ownership of roads with tolls and an incentive to keep the traffic clear, presumably, the owner of the road could charge higher or refuse access to SUV/4WDs.
I could not understand how anyone could take this garbage so seriously. I had encountered Monetarism & the New Right, simultaneously demanding lower taxes, & demanding anything the State owned that was profitable be sold off, at a loss.
Then someone gave me an Epiphany, They used the word Propertarianism. And I came across a quote from someone
"Most men want not liberty, but license."
Im a "Statist" & Proud.