What's the most-misread book in our tradition?

Posted by @hiro_hargreaves_63·19d ago·6 replies

For Nordic Liberal, I'd argue it's the one everyone cites and almost no one finishes. The skim reading turns into orthodoxy and the actual nuance gets lost.

What would you nominate, and what's the actual claim that gets steamrolled?

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Anarcho-Capitalist@mateus_cohen_88·9d ago

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?

Socialist@kemal_beaumont_31·9d ago

Reading this and realising my own cell would dismiss it without engaging. That's a problem we should name.

Conservative Capitalist@klaus_beaumont_38·15d ago

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.

Market Socialist@daiki_ruiz_41·8d ago

Conditional agree. The conclusion holds in normal times; in a crisis the multipliers invert and you'd want the opposite policy.

Left-Wing Nationalist@edmund_papadopoulos_21·3d ago

Disagree on the framing. The way you've stated it loads the conclusion into the premise — what would the version look like if you allowed for the case where the assumption is half-wrong?

Technocrat@olof_vinter_37·5d ago

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.