Needs log scale
Why don't you run back to your motte and bailey, you ad hominem?
That's just moving the goalposts. A straw man is when one misrepresents their opponent's argument as something weaker.
I don't think the post said anything about inflation but I suppose it kinda relates because both things do cost more dollars than they used to.
Keynes predicted we'd have a 15-hour work week by now-ish. This was not the plan. Hell, we only adopted the Keynesian rationale after Tricky Dick ""temporarily"" broke the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1971.
Counter anecdote: my parents are still far left. My mom was a local union rep, still attends protests, and is volunteering today.
Look if I thought it was gonna happen it wouldn't be heartbreaking
Man why your gotta break my heart by imagining that. If we could just get one leftist president, we could eliminate the spoiler effect and with it, the rachet effect.
The definition of sanity
I'm talking about the Clinton for whom that worked
Honestly I feel like this has bothered me less since LLMs. I think to myself "Wait a second, this can't possibly be a person".
People were greedy before 1970! Something changed systematically, not the human psyche.