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Originally Posted by Skybird
And for you, Penguin, speaking German, I once again recommend Christoph Braunschweig's ""wohlfahrtsstaat leb wohl" - LINK -and/or "Die demokratische Krankheit" - LINK -. Coming from a direction completely unsuspicious of being Christian-fundamentalist, his arguments are that of an empirist knowing the real world data by his profession. |
Do you mean the "professional" who declared private bankrupcy and now gives financial advice, or the guy who had a school and gave out fake certificates? A good hint how repubtable an academic is, is to take a look how often his works are quoted and who does so. I only see him cited by the ideologically very same echo chamber. So no, thanks.
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Originally Posted by Skybird
If you label the quoted passage as "garbage", then you either do not know that chapter of history too well, or you have an even greater left-leaning spin than I am so far was aware of.
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I think Tschoky already pointed out the authors failure to get the difference between voters and revolutionaries.
I pointed out that the author's pov about today's welfare state is garbage. All his stuff is based on assumptions, no sources are given - except to his own work about the bible. No proof is given for his belief how single mothers on welfare get freaking rich. What makes it even more terrible, is that his logic is fueled by his Christian fundamentalist and "Libertarian" faith about infinite growth. It's basically Economy 101 that any calculation with an infinity factor in it is trash.
Here's a counter-opinion challenging the view of an economy based on "growth". There's also an interesting link in it, to a piece written by real experts, from the Bank Of England, which also counters your belief that money creation is basically the state turning on its printing press.