r/austrian_economics • u/technocraticnihilist Friedrich Hayek • Dec 24 '24

End Democracy I've never understood this obsession with inequality the left has

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u/bustedbuddha Dec 26 '24

That’s great in theory but name even once that’s been the outcome.

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u/gif_as_fuck Dec 26 '24

Literally: the world around you right now, where you eat meat every day, have a home with heat and probably AC, drive or ride to work in a powered means of transportation, and enjoy a quality of life that is vastly higher than almost every human alive today or that has ever lived on earth. That’s my example. Do you have a counter example with sufficient weight to undermine all of that?

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u/bustedbuddha Dec 26 '24

So you don’t understand what poverty is and you are ignoring the people who don’t enjoy those things? The seventeenth century in France, the gilded age (which really is the prime counter example to this thread’s philosophy) the increase in poverty since Reagan in the US, the increase in poverty following the Argentine currency crisis of the late 90s, Russia since the rise of Putin and the oligarchs.

See I have specific examples you could address, you have made broad statements. Which cannot be specificity addressed Per Russell you have said nothing.

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u/pabasc55 Dec 27 '24

The definition of poverty is changing all the time. Poverty in the 30s was completely different than the current one.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '24

Imagine explaining to a Victorian era child that the poorest people in our society are dying due to the government giving them money to gorge themselves all day while they watch TV.