real-duncan t1_j8atnmi wrote on February 12, 2023 at 11:09 PM

Reply to comment by Miserly_Bastard in What's your estimation for the minimum size of global population required for preserving modern civilization with advanced technology and medicine, and even progressing further? by Evgeneey

Found the disillusioned economist.

Saying “some dogs shit on my lawn” does not communicate to anyone without a chip on their shoulder that I am suggesting the dogs are ‘to blame’ for that and especially not that I am blaming every dog in the world.

You have invented a lot of stuff I never said and never thought. I am not responsible for what exists in your head and not in mine. You are having a conversation with yourself.

Miserly_Bastard t1_j8brvrs wrote on February 13, 2023 at 3:18 AM

You didn't say that some dogs shit on your lawn. You blamed capitalism and economists without qualification.

But capitalism also isn't to an economist what shit is to dogs. Dogs are to biologists what the American variety of capitalism is to economists, one species of many. Parasites found in dog shit that use that shit as a medium to facilitate further spread are to dogs what rent seekers are to American capitalism. Those parasites are worthy of study and are studied by economists. Sometimes passionately and more often dispassionately.

As to it being on your lawn, well that's where the analogy sort of breaks down. The alternative to dogs may be cats or bears or nothing. An economist would probably inquire as to the utility of your yard itself and contrast it with zero lot line housing. Maybe the lawn itself is the dog shit?

real-duncan t1_j8bshlp wrote on February 13, 2023 at 3:22 AM

I didn’t blame anything.

Reading comprehension is not strong in your family is it?

You’re reading things that are not there and wanting me to defend things that only exist in your head.

You are having a conversation with yourself. You don’t need anyone else involved.

r/shitamericanssay in assuming capitalism is an “American” thing. So embarrassing!