Dat inequality

[a500lbgorilla]

I feel like I am uniquely positioned to argue in favor of capitalism because I used to be a progressive liberal who believed all of the same things that boost and rong believe. It has taken me a while to move to the other side so I don't want to bully people into accepting my point of view. My main goal in this thread is to simply dispel all of the fallacies that armchair anti-capitalists fall prey to.

I definitely don't have all the answers, I just want to attempt to have a discussion that is as fallacy free as possible.

Dude, I love you for it. I'm always interested to learn and am committed to understanding this stuff better. You present yourself like you've managed to win a hard fought understanding and so I have been investing genuine time these past several months in pivoting from my thinking closer to yours.

I didn't read Thinking Fast and Slow for fun. Well, I did. But I'm trying to come from my familiar world of skepticism towards economics and it was a good bridge. I've also been drinking up some Schelling and some Coase in the same time. I'm working my way into econ proper.

Slow and steady and I've got to wrestle with it the whole way. That's how hard fought understandings are earned.

edit does anyone ever just feel like rong gets in the way?

edit edit lol my edit joke looks bad on re-read.