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Newish video from Unlearning Economics: The Air We Breathe
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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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Please don't make me rewatch that stupid video when once was too much. I know for a fact he mentions it multiple times over the course of the video, and though obviously the total volume of words is much more devoted to attacking Sowell's politics, but what he actually says about central planning when he mentions it is significantly harsher, basically accusing it of being not just ineffective but depraved (I don't just mean the analogy about the absentee manager, that's just whatever). If you really insist, I will waste my time to dig up the full quotes from this bloated, rambling video of social chauvinism masked by attacking a worse chauvinist (also known as the Destiny Special), but I will first ask that you indicate that you really have such contempt for my time that you can't take my word on it when I've been pretty careful with how I've characterized his claims.
Also, again, I think it's much more damning that he's so explicitly anti-democratic, as he says in the same video, claiming that markets are like democracies that don't suffer from the same "tyranny of the majority" that actual voting does because, we can only conclude from what he says, some people are rich and can independently or collectively override the popular will wrt production. Literally anyone who appeals to the idea of a "tyranny of the majority" as a boogeyman is a reactionary with no further information being required.
you are so eager to find tiny flaws and cancel people
even if what you are saying is true, why would you dismiss clean air advocacy based on that?
You are so eager to stan reactionary liberals and use flimsy rhetoric to paper over their being aggressively anti-democratic. "Tiny flaws" my ass, this guy is a ghoul.
I don't see any special value in listening to a reactionary liberal say "clean air good" when they advocate for an ordering of society that is fundamentally opposed to human benefit and has historically failed to make gains in even the highly solvable issue in question.
Not even true. Evidence presented in the video we're discussing shows China has indeed made quick gains in solving it.
I have a very cynical view on China at this point, but even they are not the level of anti-marxist that would make them consistent with his "vote with your wallet" liberal ideology. China has a much greater capacity for dictating production as it sees fit, which is much more conducive to solving the clean air problem than market solutions and welfare capitalism.
If anyone else is still reading this thread, they probably have a much more positive view of China and the comparison will look many fold more ridiculous to them. I wish I had their optimism.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220222125732/https://epic.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/China-Report_FEB2022.pdf – page 9 is interesting
China has made gains in seven years that the USA made in forty...
"In Beijing, there is half as much pollution compared to both 2008 and 2013 levels." [writing in 2022]
"Can China meet and sustain these further pollution reductions? To this point, the country has relied on command-and-control measures to swiftly reduce pollution. While the measures have worked, they have come with significant economic and social costs. As China now enters the next phase of its “war against pollution,” the long-run durability of its actions will be enhanced by minimizing the costs. Relying on market-based approaches are one solution that can effectively and inexpensively reduce pollution" – lol, in other words "abandon what has just proven itself to work because it won't work because Milton Friedman wouldn't do it"