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Malcolm Klein's avatar

Universal Basic Income perhaps?

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Econoboi's avatar

Ideally!

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Luke's avatar

inshallah we will destroy the value form

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I Have Eaten Foliage's avatar

I think it's a bit funny that this ended with "we all know the solutions" and I think that's entirely unclear from the piece itself. Maybe for next time.

I think your critique of leftist justification of economic freedom aside from the freedom of capitalists relates to a recent substack I posted at https://whatsscottbessentupto.substack.com/p/neo-libertarian-industrial-policy?r=b0x9j

Let me know if this relates in your opinion.

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Econoboi's avatar

The goal of this wasn't to go in depth on unions, the welfare state, or regulation, but I do think it's obvious these things address a lot of the oppressive nature of the workplace.

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I Have Eaten Foliage's avatar

Where I think there's overlap is that libertarian economic framework, if not liberal economic policy recommendations, is pretty dominant in economics.

My post goes into why any restriction of economic freedom looks like it needs significant justification with the standard tools of economics.

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