Ok, I got that too. To an extent it's the valid part of her post. Many of those decadent whines about capitalism annoy me as well.henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 7:39 pm Flash,
"What am I not getting here?"
Perhaps I read into the piece that which isn't there. What I get is: a generation, as it basks in the benefits of capitalism (even the adulterated state-directed monster we have now) rails against capitalism and looks to socialism (of a kind), a 'system' that surely will deprive them of those benefits they take for granted.
Until capitalism made it profitable to invest in machines to replace human labour, 90% of our ancestors worked on farms and it was impossible to have a career as web designer at all, so I don't really enjoy listening to web designers who think capitalism never did them any favours, let them spend a season digging up potatoes with rough wooden tools and they can come back to me about that shit and maybe get an actual audience.
But you think everything is commie. And I live in what you consider a commie country, pretty much with the system they are after. But I drink coffee and own too many ipads and basically have all the pointless comforts they do (except I live in London so don't even know how to drive a car - I couldn't tell you which pedal is the one for 'go'). So I don't think that acquiring single payer healthcare, and 5 weeks paid vacation, paid maternity leave and so on actually results in people losing out quite as much as you are implying.
Maybe you can be an honorary Austrian then. Gold though? Really?henry quirk wrote: ↑Sun May 05, 2019 7:39 pm "If the extremely simple macroeconomics I referenced there is actually beyond you"
"you might not really count as an Austrian"
Well, I favor unrestrained markets, gold, government as final arbiter of contract and nuthin' more, no one is too big to fail, savings, investment, pure & raw supply and demand.