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This is Brilliant, a talk titled understanding how the modern liberal thinks.


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2014 Dec 31, 1:48pm   29,171 views  127 comments

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The speaker, Evan Sayet a liberal Jew who had and epiphany is talking about Allan Bloom's book "The closing of the American mind"

It is about 1/2 hour long followed by questions.

In a nutshell, he is saying that the main fallacy of the modern liberal is that there main goal is to not discriminate.
The problem with this is the loss of critical thinking, because to have an opinion would be discrimination. According to Sayet Bloom stated noticing this in the 80s.

Dan comes to mind as an example of this type of non-thinking, and I'm guessing about the right age.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/EIboXTpF6t4

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113   Dan8267   2015 Jan 11, 12:40pm  

FortWayne says

Dan if everyone will make double, prices will simply double.

No, that's not how economics works. If every household's wealth production doubles, then goods should cost half as much as a function of an hour of labor. If that doesn't happen, it's because parasites wearing stupid elephant pins have redirected the wealth from those hard working Americans producing it to the lazy asses who produce nothing.

The entry of women into the workforce should have made the middle class family wealthier and more financial stable. It had the opposite effect because scumbag conservatives used the doubling of the work force to destroy the bargaining power of labor and to exploit that labor.

So, yes, the reason why most women don't have a choice about whether or not to work is because of scumbags like your hero Reagan.

114   FortWayne   2015 Jan 11, 2:25pm  

Dan8267 says

No, that's not how economics works. If every household's wealth production doubles, then goods should cost half as much as a function of an hour of labor

Nope Dan, it would be inflation. You don't even got the basics man.

115   Dan8267   2015 Jan 11, 3:40pm  

FortWayne says

inflation

Inflation, if you mean currency debasement, is an independent effect.

Inflation, if you mean cost of living increases, is caused by a real drop in working wages, again, thanks to Reagan.

116   indigenous   2015 Jan 11, 3:47pm  

Here we witness the libby in the wild notice:

He cannot define inflation.

He has no concept that government causes inflation.

He has no idea that his primary disability is his inbility to disciminate, which includes critical thinking.

117   Dan8267   2015 Jan 11, 4:52pm  

indigenous says

He cannot define inflation.

Honeybuns, inflation used to mean currency debasement for centuries. In the past few decades, it's been redefined to cost of living increases in order to prevent people from talking about currency debasement. Most people misuse the term.

I'll put my intellect up against your puny one any day. It won't be a contest.

118   indigenous   2015 Jan 11, 6:19pm  

I'm sorry snocums but that is not exactly right.

We will have do the dick measuring contest some other time, when you're not wearing a dress.

119   Dan8267   2015 Jan 11, 6:33pm  

indigenous says

We will have do the dick measuring contest some other time, when you're not wearing a dress.

Not necessary. Your wife can vouch that my dick is much larger than yours.

120   bob2356   2015 Jan 12, 6:18am  

FortWayne says

Dan8267 says

No, that's not how economics works. If every household's wealth production doubles, then goods should cost half as much as a function of an hour of labor

Nope Dan, it would be inflation. You don't even got the basics man.

If productivity increases then prices decrease. Apparently someone else has trouble with basics as well.

121   FortWayne   2015 Jan 12, 10:45am  

bob2356 says

FortWayne says

Dan8267 says

No, that's not how economics works. If every household's wealth production doubles, then goods should cost half as much as a function of an hour of labor

Nope Dan, it would be inflation. You don't even got the basics man.

If productivity increases then prices decrease. Apparently someone else has trouble with basics as well.

If everyone makes double the money, prices double too. Did you learn nothing from history?

122   bob2356   2015 Jan 14, 11:38pm  

FortWayne says

bob2356 says

FortWayne says

Dan8267 says

No, that's not how economics works. If every household's wealth production doubles, then goods should cost half as much as a function of an hour of labor

Nope Dan, it would be inflation. You don't even got the basics man.

If productivity increases then prices decrease. Apparently someone else has trouble with basics as well.

If everyone makes double the money, prices double too. Did you learn nothing from history?

Did you learn nothing from economics? Obviously not. Increasing productivity means producing more product for the SAME cost therefore increasing profits or cutting prices or both. It has zero to do with inflation. Inflation is increasing the money supply in relation to goods and services.

123   Dan8267   2015 Jan 15, 7:45am  

bob2356 says

Did you learn nothing from economics? Obviously not. Increasing productivity means producing more product for the SAME cost therefore increasing profits or cutting prices or both. It has zero to do with inflation. Inflation is increasing the money supply in relation to goods and services.

You beat me to it. Fort Wayne evidently has some fundamental misunderstandings of economics and finance if he thinks that productivity is a function of the number of monetary units paid to laborers.

The productivity of workers has increased by a factor of four over the past half century. This has nothing to do with the money supply. But it is the reason why we are materially better off, as a whole, than we were in the 1950s. Unfortunately, as my reference shows, since the 1980s all increases in productivity have been siphoned from the wealth creators (workers) and given to the parasites (executives and owners).

124   indigenous   2015 Jan 15, 8:25am  

Dan8267 says

You beat me to it. Fort Wayne evidently has some fundamental misunderstandings of economics and finance if he thinks that productivity is a function of the number of monetary units paid to laborers.

In this post Dan's name is "the pot".

125   Dan8267   2015 Jan 15, 9:42am  

If you're going to try to insult someone either
a. Do it creatively
b. Do it seriously and then support the insult with a good reason

You fail consistently at both.

126   FortWayne   2015 Jan 15, 7:08pm  

bob2356 says

Did you learn nothing from economics? Obviously not. Increasing productivity means producing more product for the SAME cost therefore increasing profits or cutting prices or both. It has zero to do with inflation. Inflation is increasing the money supply in relation to goods and services.

What do you think will happen when there is double the money?

Houses went from single income to dual income requirement these days in places where both adults work. It ain't much of a secret. You boys read something in textbook and completely fail to understand it in life, especially when it doesn't fit the liberal ideology.

127   Dan8267   2015 Jan 15, 8:12pm  

FortWayne says

liberal ideology.

You don't know what the liberal ideology is, even though I've told you point blank dozens of time. Conservatives are just too stupid to learn.

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