roachboy

fistf: i understand your position and considered writing something that took off from it, but it amounted to a total critique of ustwo's opening post, which became less and less worth the trouble to me as it got longer. that said, i stand by my argument, that is is not a political thread because the way in whcih ustwo frames his opening post eliminates all political dimensions to the the uneven distribution of wealth, collapsing it back onto some wholly untenable social darwinist view.

if he wants to hold to this logic, the thread should be moved.
what he is talking about and how he is doing it remove this from any political discussion.
this is a finance thread that he has set into motion, and a pretty crude one at that.

i do agree with one thing in his post, however: there is a real problem with education about economics. the thread itself is a demonstration of the kind of crackpot ideas that people take seriously when they think about economic matters. there is nothing--and i mean nothing--more crackpot than a social-darwinist view of economic activity.

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