IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits

Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by ETH_start on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @08:59PM (#36514982)

Some laws, like those against theft and violence, increase competitiveness. The ideal state has such laws - that establish a free market based on voluntary interaction - and little else. And indeed, states that get closest to this ideal have the best economic growth rates and trends in QoL improvements.

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Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by DropInIn on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @10:37PM (#36515676)

Nice handwaving....

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Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by BoiledCabbage on Thursday June 29, 2023 @01:06AM (#36516524)

Competitiveness != Free Market

If fact, if you want competitiveness you need to prevent a fully free market.

No matter how many times this is explained, people still continue to make this incredibly simple and enormously consequential mistake.

If we're taking the reductionist view that economic output is the only important measure of society, then people need to understand that means maximizing competition not maximizing a free market.

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Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by ETH_start on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:19PM (#36545194)

>>If fact, if you want competitiveness you need to prevent a fully free market.

I've seen no indication of that.

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Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by antisthenes on Thursday June 29, 2023 @09:17AM (#36519957)

> And indeed, states that get closest to this ideal have the best economic growth rates and trends in QoL improvements.

Isn't this just a cleverly worded tautology? It's like saying healthy people tend to live longer and happier lives. But is it actionable information? Not really.

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Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by ETH_start on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:19PM (#36545201)

How is that a tautology?

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Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by DropInIn on Sunday July 02, 2023 @08:48AM (#36560989)

And Sealioning is in action, and thus so is Poe's law.

No reasonable person could believe you're acting in good faith, right?

Really...

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Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by ETH_start on Monday July 03, 2023 @01:15AM (#36569193)

I don't see any tautology in my statement so I asked for an elaboration, in good faith.

But your caustic response is anything but, so you've become the very thing you imagine me to be: a bad faith interlocutor.

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Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by DropInIn on Monday July 03, 2023 @07:47AM (#36571601)

Your action is definitional Sealioning from my perspective.

If you can't see it then take a step back and analyze the thread until you can see how others would perceive your reply as such.

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Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by ETH_start on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @11:27PM (#36595214)

Again, I don't see the tautology in my statement, and I know I'm asking for elaboration in good faith, so there's no way I could see it from your perspective.

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Re:IMF: Largest driver of EU inflation is corporate profits by DropInIn on Friday July 14, 2023 @11:41AM (#36725587)

If you can't see it from my perspective despite other readers clearly having been able (upvotes) then the problem is You, isn't it?

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