The Texas Democrat Joe Rogan wants to run for POTUS

[CowboyJD]

That is circular logic, dude.

Hey, I have concerns with this AEI study? Well, I found other data that shows the median went up. Yea, but what does the median say about the distribution? Well, I found this AEI study that show that......

And, thank you for the high school level stats lesson on medians and averages.

Remember who you're dealing with.

Just saying.

 

[GratefulPoke]

Remember who you're dealing with.

Just saying.

Yep, he is wasting his breath.

Also, cable is someone that has personally benefitted immensely from neoliberalism. Because of that, he is always going to have a hard time seeing it as anything other than good for everyone.

It reminds me of the old Upton Sinclair quote: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.

 

[JTOSU]

Yep, he is wasting his breath.

Also, cable is someone that has personally benefitted immensely from neoliberalism. Because of that, he is always going to have a hard time seeing it as anything other than good for everyone.

It reminds me of the old Upton Sinclair quote: It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon him not understanding it.

Sinclair's quote is classic ....as perspective is a powerful filter (which we have seen here in the last couple of pages). But it cuts both ways. Just as you think my salary prevents me from seeing the struggle.... feelings, vibe, and/or distrust of capitalism may be preventing you from acknowledging the data and seeing the millions of people who actually have moved up.

I absolutely benefited from our mixed economy with free-market capitalism. "Everyone" is an impossible outcome, but certainly the data indicates that millions of Americans benefited as well. Are you saying the data for the US Census and study from AEI is false or incorrect?

I think we just value different metrics. I am not debating the equity of the system, and I’m looking at the output of the system.

 

[GratefulPoke]

Housing, education, and healthcare are the big three that have squeezed the lower class for a couple decades now. I don't think it's a coincidence that these are the most heavily regulated. The politician who actually gets serious about tackling the affordability of these will have my support. But everyone, including Bernie and AOC, have been all talk.

Also, I have to push back on the bolded part. This is a false narrative. First of all it's Blackstone that buys properties. Secondly, the institutional owners of single family units are now net sellers and never owned more than around 6% of supply. The report that came out a few months ago saying something like "one group has purchased 25% of all single family homes" was talking about people who own 1 to 10 units. Mom and pop landlords.

Once piece I wanted to circle back on is the first part that I bolded. Is it regulation that has caused these industries to squeeze the lower class? That essentially is the neoliberal argument. But in looking across our economy, these neoliberal policies have done the exact opposite in other sectors where that was practiced. Why would they be effective here?

I think the case could be made for housing that some deregulation would be beneficial and other regulation should be implemented. This is essentially the "Abundance" argument. But for medical care, is regulation the cause of our situation much at all? Or in education? I would posit that making needs a commodity has been absolutely detrimental. We have examples of other countries doing it a different way with better outcomes for most people involved.

 

[Polds4OSU]

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What he says has been going on since the Vietnam War and today explains why we don't have universal health care, bullet trains, better education and so on. But the people keep voting like they want more and more guns, rather than more and more butter. They say we have to have a huge military budget because it's about having "Peace Through Strength". But that slogan is a fraud as proven by the Iraq War and past wars.

 

[Polds4OSU]

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