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0 pointssnitko12y ago0 comments

> If we don't restrict some choices in the short term, then we can end up with no choices in the long term

Is it a chant or something? We can end up with no choices. Or maybe we will end up with more choices. Can you prove it logically without manipulating data and suggesting it to be evidence? Because the 2007 crash you mentioned can be explained from a different point of view, completely different from yours.

I can also say "everyone being able to own guns actually increases overall safety and if you don't allow people to own guns, we may end up with less safety". Do you realize this sounds exactly like your argument?

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rtpg12y ago

I am not going to be the guy who figures out how to unify the world's economists.

I'm not saying that every instance of markets should be regulated, I'm saying that some markets in their unregulated form are not free, and can end up imploding on itself. You might argue that a market in that form isn't worth saving, but if a small bit of regulation can push the market in the right direction you can end up with a healthy market.

You're going to have to explain your last statement, because I don't get it.

Every economic argument will reach the point of some guy saying "A" and another guy saying "not A" anyways though, so might as well just stop here.

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