Newish video from Unlearning Economics: The Air We Breathe
Newish video from Unlearning Economics: The Air We Breathe
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This guy did an interview and said he lands to the right of where he used to be as far as economics toward a more centrist position.
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Five minutes in and all he's done is describe the events of Futurama at length.
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I kind of lost interest in him when he talked about the conversion problem and made it abundantly clear that he doesn't understand the distinction between value and cost
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check out his video titled 'Value'
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China’s Fight to Win its War Against Pollution, discussed from around 36:40 – https://web.archive.org/web/20220222125732/https://epic.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/China-Report_FEB2022.pdf
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1:11:00 is right, IMO: Biden has made some improvements in air pollution which are one of the little differences electoralism can make (because it's not true that elections have exactly zero effect)
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I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
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I'm still triggered by a number of things he said in the anti-Sowell video about how economic planning is evil and the democratic organization of the economy is a "tyranny of the majority" that can be ameliorated by the "democracy" of markets. He's just another fucking liberal reactionary.
yeah yeah he said ONE sentence in that video about how central planning is overrated. Lenin, China, everyone knows that central planning is overrated. So they must be cancelled too according to the iron law of leftist purity.
I'd like to see him do a full vid on central planning.
Did you watch that fucking video? He wouldn't shut up about how it's "bloody" and despicable and so on. He literally came down harder on central planning than he did on free markets
You also don't understand Lenin or even China's position on central planning if you think the statement "it's overrated" is compatible with their views. Their positions can be summarized as that central planning requires a degree of development of the MoP that their respective states did not have at the time, but that the ultimate trend of socialist production is in the direction of centralization over time. UE's position is market "socialism" in the proper sense, in which markets are to be kept as the primary organizing force of production into perpetuity. (That's contrasting the other way people use the term "market socialism" where markets are used as an intermediary stage in the development of the MoP, which I only have a limited problem with)
But the bulk of my comment represented the bulk of my concern, specifically that he is explicitly anti-democratic on nonsensical liberal grounds. That is fundamentally incompatible with anything that can reasonably called socialism.
Pretty sure it wasn't just one sentence, and he made similar remarks previously.
I wouldn't call the only system that has managed to provide people with guaranteed housing in the past few centuries 'overrated'. If anything, it is highly underrated.
I'm not sure why you are interested in the opinion of this person on the matter when he literally tries to paint an economic system that provided some of the best living conditions and most significant improvements in such in the world outside of the imperial core as awful and argues in favour of standard capitalism or a co-op version thereof.