Re:Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide int...
by candiodari on Friday August 25, 2017 @07:58AM
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I wonder where the theory that government spending is simply free actually comes from, that somehow when the government spends money (or enacts regulation or taxes, same thing) that the cost is somehow magically not that everybody has to work more and/or harder to achieve those things.
But it's sure becoming a popular theory.
Also: I think what you're describing might be the broken window fallacy: http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fal...
Re:Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide int...
by alistproducer2 on Friday August 25, 2017 @11:02AM
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>all the people doing that stuff as the result of a hoax
Are you saying that human-caused global warming is a hoax?
Money isn't the issue; finite time and resources are.
My point has nothing to do with how terrible capitalism is or any silly bete noirs like that. It is simply the observation that if we waste our time on A, we can't be using that time to do the better B. It sits at a level of fundamental truth far below debates about economic systems or the nature of money.