Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State
by nickff on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:15PM
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I'm having some difficulty understanding your statement:
>"It's not possible to accurately argue "she would have received a better/more efficient education in a free market society" because that's a counterfactual."
Do you mean to say that nobody can ever argue that a historical counterfactual might have been preferable? This would seem to be a rationalization of history, through a refusal to consider alternatives.
Re:Ayn Rand Institute accepts $1m PPP loan from The State
by thephyber on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:26PM
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Perhaps I can rephrase: it's not possible to test the counterfactual, therefore to know the accuracy of the statement.
Obviously anyone can make any statement/argument, but without the ability to verify it, it doesn't carry much weight.
It's not possible to accurately argue "she would have received a better/more efficient education in a free market society" because that's a counterfactual.
In fact, it's probably more likely that she dedicated her whole life to overreacting against socialist economics in her writing precisely because she had been exposed to Stalinism/communism.