• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Paragraph 1: argument from authority and questioning my competency.

      Paragraph 2: conceding part of the argument to reframe it

      Paragraph 3: an appeal to emotion and rewriting history

      Paragraph 4: attempt to distract with jargon

      Yeah I am not buying what you are selling. Economists consistently support the views of the people who are paying them, consistently make predictions that do not happen, and consistently ignore real world data that goes against what they laughably call theories.

      All attempts to reframe, reorient, distract, gatekeep, and every sorta rhetoric tricks will not remove the facts that I have stated. But hey go ahead and prove me wrong, go find me someone employed at Goldman Sachs with an econ degree who for years has stated that the bailouts were a bad idea. Go ahead and find me a government economist who supports student loan amnesty. I will lend you my lantern to find the one honest economists.

      We made god in our image, the economist god is homo economis. A being whose integrity is bought for pennies. That says all you really need to know.