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The Basics of Market Socialism

Econ

Big government is good

  1. big goverment helps people live better and leads to a more efficent goverment
  2. bigger goverments are less corrupt
  3. If a big goverment is good it raises happiness more then a good small goverment

De-growth is dumb

  1. we must reject eco-thatcherism
  2. one of the best debunks of degrowth
  3. It is fairly dumb and malthusian
  4. Malthusianism is dumb
  5. A macroecon perspective on malthus

Equality is good actually

  1. inequality is stagnating american growth and decreases aggregate demand
  2. income inequality makes people less happy
  3. inequality is bad for health

Anti-libertarian aktion

  1. minimum wage does not tend to cause unemployment
  2. the saftey net doesn't cause unemployment
  3. a good critque of Mises’ praxeology
  4. regulations were proven good by a libertarian
  5. we need anti-trust
  6. planning can work

Food subsidies bad

  1. food subsidies hurt the environment by encouraging certain inefficient production that hurts nature
  2. food subsidies have helped in part with the formation of the obesity epidemic
  3. food subsidies encourage inefficent and wasteful production

Basic defcit policy for dumb lefties

  1. First we need ndgp level targeting to allow for more effective inflationary policy during ressecions
  2. Quantitative easing is good actually
  3. A good article by the brookings on the great ressecion and tools for helping us
  4. The basics of monetary policy
  5. some good policies we can adopt
  6. an article proven somewhat true
  7. expansionary and counter cyclical policy can decrease the time for recovery
  8. the basics of keyenesian econ

Social Wealth Funds (SWF's) are based

  1. The best article on swfs
  2. What a social wealth fund is
  3. Social wealth funds as a way to encourage sustainability
  4. How we can run a swf and federal shareholder
  5. A read into the brazilian swf vs the nordic model
  6. A read on the effects of a swf and equality
  7. A response to a major critque of the swf
  8. We already have a plan for it
  9. A good critque and appraisal of swfs
  10. Another read into the swf especially in the british context

Unions good you dumbies

  1. the decline of unions trend with rise of inequality
  2. unions help the economy
  3. unions improve society in so many ways
  4. anti-union lies debunked
  5. unions good in resecions
  6. why we need sectoral unions
  7. how we can promote sectoral unions

welfare good (you know the drill)

  1. welfare seems to raise quality of life
  2. welfare lowers unemployment but makes it harder for people to leave jobs and have more efficent movement between jobs, that can be adressed through other policies and making movement easier(which welfare can do)
  3. welfare is just good for the economy in general

zoning bad

  1. zoning laws are ineffective
  2. welfare lowers unemployment but makes it harder for people to leave jobs and have more efficent movement between jobs, that can be adressed through other policies and making movement easier(which welfare can do)
  3. Minnesota did one aspect of removing zoning laws and it seems to have gone well

Social Issues

Crime And refugees

  1. immigration has been shown that banning immagrants seems to have no discernable impact on crime
  2. it also has not shown to increase crime in america
  3. debunk of the rap capital of the world argument

Debunking anti lgbtq+ myths

  1. No you dumbfucks trans people don't rape more
  2. trans women in mens prisons are raped more
  3. gay people are not nore likely to be pedophilles
  4. Conversion camps are fucking dumb and evil
  5. Being gay is just as healthy as straight people
  6. The gay lifestyle argument is incredibly dumb
  7. Autogynephilia studies are flawed
  8. Ace people are valid
  9. In 29 states lgbtq people are not fully protected
  10. Transitioning makes trans people happier
  11. The trans athletes argument is dumb

The war on drugs is cringe

  1. A really good aclu report on the topic
  2. cannabis is much better then opiod pain killer
  3. MDMA is an effective therapuetic
  4. Portugal decrimnalized drugs and it was a major success
  5. we could use the revenue to create jobs

Sexism is real and also cringe

  1. Women aren't paid for the unpaid labor of raising children
  2. Their labor is undervalued
  3. Gender inequality is bad for the economy

defund the police the good and the very bad

  1. it is a very unpopular policy
  2. a good set of policies we can campaign on
  3. another set of policies we could campaign on
  4. a good read on the fact that we would need to spend in order to do reforms
  5. again more policies that we can campaign for that aren't extremly unpopular

gun control is good

  1. twitter thread on why gun control good