A problem with the free-market?

[MMMark]

Mon. 10/04/26 10:56 EDT
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@JakobM

Ultimately you reject socialism because of arbitrary value judgments.

@MMMark

Ultimately, I reject putting sugar in the gas tank because of arbitrary value judgements.

Thanks. You are pretending that you have it all figured out as if you were dealing with a small, well defined, physical problem. That clearly shows that

1. you are a positivist and your ‘economics’ is just positivism.
2. you are completly mischaracterizing the problem at hand.

Jakob, slapping labels on me is not the way to understand what I am saying.

I wasn’t making any statement about socialism or economics. I was making a statement about language, specifically, your use of it.

Stating that people accept or reject things “because of arbitrary value judgements” might be true, but it’s so unspecific as to be practically meaningless.

I reject putting sugar in the gas tank because I desire to avoid the deleterious consequences.

I reject socialism for the same reason.