Sam Raman

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

"The empirical claim is doing too much work. Strip it out and the argument still holds, but more honestly."

"Best argument I've seen for this position. I still don't accept it, but you've put it in its strongest form."

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

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

"Going to disagree softly. The historical record on this is messier than the canon admits."

"I'd take the bet, with a caveat: timing matters more than direction."

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

Stalinist-Marxist reading list — what would you cut, what would you add in 2026?