So whatcha saying is: we stick 100 billionaires in gobi desert and let them bid for water
Liberal economics responding to Marxism is always some hypothetical like “Ok imagine you’re thirsty in the desert, but you only have two cows and your neighbor opens a flower shop.”
“Enough with your real world evidence. Let’s try a hypothetical I made up whole-cloth” isn’t really the intellectual zinger they think it is.
“How am I raising cows in the desert?”
“What? That’s not important.”
“Couldn’t I just ask the flower shop owner for water? You kinda need an excess of water to run a flower shop… Also how are they running a flower shop in the des…”
“SHUT UP!”
“That’s not relevant.”
“So wait, what parts ARE relevant? Only the parts which, devoid of any context or any prior material condition, support your world view, but any reasonable outside conditions which would cause your point to collapse are irrelevant?”
“Yes, exactly. Now you’re getting it.”
This reminds me of the unironic ancap comic about three guys being stuck on an island. The communist guy screeches because he’s unable to do anything. The two capitalist guys trade a coconut with each other back and forth until they make enough money to…. Build a boat? And leave sail off the island.
no the communist builds a boat or shelter or w/e, the capitalists accumulate BJs by trading coconuts, the communist uses the protein from all the loads to build an entire civilization, the capitalists take credit for it, then the communist eats the puny capitalist and invents space travel.
Reminds me of that joke where two economists go walking in the woods, they see dog shit, one tells the other he will pay him $100 to eat the dog shit, which he does. Then they see more dog shit, the other tells the first one he will pay him $100 to eat the dog shit, which he does. Then one says “wait, we both just ate dog shit, I gave you $100, you gave me $100. We just ate dog shit for nothing?” Then the other says “we did something though. We increased the GDP of our country by $200.”
Where did the sail even come from? Like was it an actual sail? Please it tell me it was, because all it does is confirm anarcho-capitalists are completely delusional to the point their entire ideology revolves around magical thinking.
At least we have centuries of theory to pull from.
Pack it up, socialism is when no water.
Socialism, famous for not ever doing anything to meet the needs of the people because it’s too cheap
