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There are a million ways I could respond to this, but I just wanted to point out that in my experience most people who defend capitalism don't understand how it works at all @mchooyah/1350978710460116996Permalink On twitter.com
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Like all the people saying "if you raise the minimum wage that means Taco Bell costs $80 per tortilla"... that's not how economics works. That's not how inflation works. But it's these people who chant about """basic economics""" until they're blue in the faceOn twitter.com
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I have met right wingers who DO understand economics. But they are right wingers because they either think there is no alternative to the mass suffering that capitalism causes, or that the people suffering deserve it, or both. "Understanding" econ has nothing to do with itPermalink On twitter.com