I just hope Kamala Harris wins. Trump is a very bad person. Insurrection J6, mass deportations, racism is scary stuff. I am not American national so I cannot vote.
Stay safe John. And by the way, I have moved toward social democracy/social liberalism now and moved away from my libertarian capitalism. I still support open borders though.
Thanks John. To quickly explain my shift, it happened because I lost a debate with a friend and simply found the compelling force of expert consensus in economics to be too strong to deny, that is, majority of economists are neither libertarian capitalists nor Marxists nor MMTers nor Austrian economists nor any heterodox view holders, so they are all basically social democrat/social liberals. Daron Acemoglu just won the Nobel Memorial Prize and Daron is the signature social democrat/social liberal economist. He is THE MOST productive economist of 21st century and is considered a genius in the economics field. He is well respected across the board by economists like from socialist leaning like Joseph Stiglitz, and libertarian capitalist leaning like Tyler Cowen.
Neither libertarian capitalists nor Marxists have been able to shift the economic consensus toward their view so far.
Tibor Rutar, a former Marxist and a sociologist at University of Maribor, Slovenia, also did not just swing to libertarian capitalism when he stopped being a socialist. Tibor simply became a social democrat/social liberal basically recognizing that both pure socialism and pure capitalism have unsolvable flaws and social democracy/social liberalism gets the best of both worlds and rejects the terrible stuff from both worlds.
Expert consensus always kinda bothered me, and it was always in the back of my mind that I am literally going against the majority of economists by being a libertarian capitalist, but it is after the debate that I felt the strong intellectual force of going against the tide.
I just hope Kamala Harris wins. Trump is a very bad person. Insurrection J6, mass deportations, racism is scary stuff. I am not American national so I cannot vote.
Stay safe John. And by the way, I have moved toward social democracy/social liberalism now and moved away from my libertarian capitalism. I still support open borders though.
Thanks for the note, Rajat. And good to hear about your political shift!
Thanks John. To quickly explain my shift, it happened because I lost a debate with a friend and simply found the compelling force of expert consensus in economics to be too strong to deny, that is, majority of economists are neither libertarian capitalists nor Marxists nor MMTers nor Austrian economists nor any heterodox view holders, so they are all basically social democrat/social liberals. Daron Acemoglu just won the Nobel Memorial Prize and Daron is the signature social democrat/social liberal economist. He is THE MOST productive economist of 21st century and is considered a genius in the economics field. He is well respected across the board by economists like from socialist leaning like Joseph Stiglitz, and libertarian capitalist leaning like Tyler Cowen.
Neither libertarian capitalists nor Marxists have been able to shift the economic consensus toward their view so far.
Tibor Rutar, a former Marxist and a sociologist at University of Maribor, Slovenia, also did not just swing to libertarian capitalism when he stopped being a socialist. Tibor simply became a social democrat/social liberal basically recognizing that both pure socialism and pure capitalism have unsolvable flaws and social democracy/social liberalism gets the best of both worlds and rejects the terrible stuff from both worlds.
Expert consensus always kinda bothered me, and it was always in the back of my mind that I am literally going against the majority of economists by being a libertarian capitalist, but it is after the debate that I felt the strong intellectual force of going against the tide.