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Off Topic » in reply to re: On "social credits"

By whatever power is vested in me,...
Robert — (archived)

...I hereby grant you a degree of Doctor in Economic Theology.

You approach the intellectual exercize of alternative economics with exactly the mindset of a religious fanatic "examining" other religions. Your "analysis" is nothing more than a criticism of how an alternative differs from the idol you worship, and not exactly surprising, you conclude that the more it differs, the worse it is.

It's somewhat ironic in the case of proposals such as Social Credits, since it's an elaboration of free-market capitalism. It's also ironic that you think it means something to say "try it out in some city", when there are examples of this application of capitalism already in existence: Employee-owned businesses come immediately to mind.

Let's go back in time eight years, to the 2000 election campaign. What was one of the centerpieces of the GOP platform? Promoting stock ownership, to transform all Americans into shareholders. There was a lot of justification of the plan which didn't sound a whole lot different from the rationale behind Social Credits, all about "stakeholders" and "sharing the general prosperity" and "accountability".

Silly goose, you're not just having a knee-jerk argument with me, you're having a knee-jerk argument with recent Party dogma. You must've missed that talking-points memo.

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