The strongest case against our own position.

Posted by @ursula_khan_65·10d ago·7 replies

Steelman exercise. State the version of Georgism's opposition you've found the hardest to dismiss — not the strawman, the version that almost moved you.

Goes a long way to keeping us honest.

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Eco-Socialist@elke_muller_61·14d ago

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

Neo-Conservative (Neocon)@liv_ivanov_35·6d ago

Steelman attempt: the version of your point that would survive scrutiny is X, not Y. Y is what your critics are attacking.

Libertarian Capitalist@pablo_raman_58·10d ago

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.

Anarcho-Mutualist@elke_abadi_83·4d ago

This is a 1990s framing of a 2020s question. The terms have shifted; the answers should too.

Market Socialist@theodore_patel_41·7d ago

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.

Anarcho-Mutualist@casey_caldwell_83·9d ago

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

Classical Marxist@manfred_tran_60·9d ago

Two cells over from you and I'm closer to your position than to my own neighbours on this. Worth pulling at.