Buried alive posted:

One of those moments for me was when several people had a mildly technical discussion and criticism of something about economics and the opening of Jrod's response was something like "I don't think you people really understand economics all that well." That's one of the few times I got legitimately angry at a post on the internet.

jrodbot posted:

Implications we deduce are wrong.

jrodbot posted:

And during that time we saw an unprecedented expansion of the time had sought the creation of a verbal debate.

jrodbot posted:

You would have to live with the Milton Friedman Chicago School of economics, perhaps because of bitterness over the long run, but money appreciated in value.

jrodbot posted:

Why create uncertainty and anxiety for so many when they hid it under the mattress?

VioletCorsica posted:

Hm, the bot is now pitching a fit and saying we need to hide our money under our mattresses. I'm not sure if this is a coding error.

GunnerJ posted:

How about when he was all going on about how government employees are parasites and then someone was like, "Uh, I work for the government and love my job and help people every day" and he starts shuffle walking back about how maybe #NotAllPublicServants are bad.

Who What Now posted:

Or the time he said Caros was letting the death of his friend cloud his judgement and if he would just move on and look at things logically he would once again be welcomed into the Libertarian fold.

Caros posted:

Which time. He did that as recently as last week in an email.

theshim posted:

Caros noooooooooooooooo

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Speaking of which isn't it about time for another visit from the free market fairy?

Certified data masseuse posted:

the delinquency rate on all bank loans (the headline number) has no predictive power; it just follows a random pattern.

Heaven forbid we update the great prophets writings posted:

Consider the Times Square area of New York City, a notoriously crime-ridden area where there is little police protection furnished by the city authorities. Every New Yorker knows, in fact, that he lives and walks the streets, and not only Times Square, virtually in a state of "anarchy," dependent solely on the normal peacefulness and good will of his fellow citizens.

You say progressive taxation, I say abolish the Fed posted:

It is true that the distance between the ‘super rich’ and the rest of the population has been increasing... the most important reason for this development has been widely neglected in the debate: our monopolistic monetary system...
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In a fiat money system the costs of money production fall to virtually zero. Thus, the incentive to produce new money is almost irresistible. And all money production redistributes income and wealth, because not all economic agents receive the new money at the same time. Some people get the new money earlier, some get it later. The first receivers of the new money benefit, as they have higher cash balances and can buy at the old, still low prices. Once the first receivers spend the money, it flows to the next receivers who still profit but less than the first receivers since prices start rising. Successively the new money spreads across the economy and pushes prices upward.

Politicans are evil; please feel sorry for the billionaires posted:

It’s Not About Wealth, It’s About Politics

We will hear, no doubt, that the justice standard depends upon one’s wealth. Please. Tell that to Martha Stewart, whom Jim Comey prosecuted when he was the George W. Bush-appointed US attorney and won a conviction against her in a Manhattan federal court in 2004.
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Or compare Comey’s treatment of Hillary Clinton with how he dealt with Frank Quattrone, the banker whom Comey charged with “obstruction of justice” and “witness tampering” for a series of emails that Quattrone sent to employees and associates preceding a federal investigation of Quattrone and Credit Suisse First Boston.

wot posted:

If only there were a system of democratic decision-making in which all members of society had a voice, a system that couldn’t be controlled by the rich and powerful. If only there were a system in which all people could choose to distribute wealth to those that they feel are best at improving the lives of their fellow human beings.

Of course, there is such a system: it’s called the market. The free market is a genuine democracy that offers all the benefits supposedly found in democratic political systems without their drawbacks.

I don't understand what wealth is posted:

Let us consider these "small savers" whom the Italian government is so eager to protect. In 2013, net wealth of the median Italian household was 145,469 euros, including real and financial assets. It is hard to believe that a household which was savvy and disciplined enough to accumulate this amount of net wealth would be so naive

Only governments abuse power posted:

Many people recoil from the idea of policing being done by private, for-profit enterprise. They imagine that such companies, in their attempt to maximize profit, would be even more abusive than government police. But what most fail to realize is that private ‘police’ already exist in America and to a large extent: there are an estimated 3 persons employed in private security for every public cop. These include a wide range of roles and skills, from the night watchman at a construction site to sophisticated cyber security experts ensuring that financial transactions are secure.

Private policing isn’t some fantasy, and it isn’t just a luxury enjoyed by the rich: every time you enter a shopping mall, go to a department store, visit an amusement park, enjoy a live professional sporting event, or use PayPal, you are being protected by people trying to maximize profit.

I AM A loving CRACKPOT posted:

The Cleveland Fed’s Loretta Mester is a clueless apparatchik and Fed lifer, who joined the system in 1985 fresh out of Barnard and Princeton and has imbibed in its Keynesian groupthink and institutional arrogance ever since. So it’s not surprising that she was out flogging — albeit down under in Australia — the next step in the Fed’s rolling coup d’ etat.
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...what helicopter money policy would do. Based on some Keynesian gobbledygook about the purported gap between full-employment or “potential GDP” and actual output and employment, the Fed would essentially set the Federal deficit target.

Regulation is bad posted:

The real problem is not that the laws are too vague in specifying the functions and purposes of these agencies and their programs, but that the agencies exist at all. For it is the US government itself through its legal power to regulate and intervene in economic activities that is the fount of all monopoly privileges, corporate welfare, and anti-consumer practices. The real solution is to abolish the Agricultural Department and all other regulatory agencies and restore a regime of strict laissez-faire capitalism in which consumers alone determine the kinds, quantities and qualities of goods and services that are produced by their purchasing decisions on free and competitive markets.

How do you do, fellow kids? posted:

Just a week after the launch of Poke’mon Go, politicians are considering legislation aimed at restricting its use. Villainous Team Rocket may not have been able to stop Pikachu, but they are mere amateurs compared to the State.

Caros posted:

You can't stop me you fuckers! Hahahaha hahahaha!

Caros posted:

Which time. He did that as recently as last week in an email.

spoon0042 posted:

A jrod-bot doesn't seem authentic if it doesn't vomit thousands of words at a time.

Curvature of Earth posted:

Why We Get More Policing Than We Need: It's "Free"
We call upon the police more than we need to because they're often the only social service available. This isn't a loving demand issue caused by low price ceilings. Jesus Christ.

jrodbot posted:

A good record for Keynesian interventionist economics? I'll go even further. Keynesian theory recommends counter cyclical spending so that national debts don't get out of control. But as we know, credit expansion by a central bank. You would have to be used to address every minor complaint, there will be worth less, likely FAR less, when they have to be expected.

jrodbot posted:

The future. At the moment I don't want to call in a third party that might act as a performative contradiction, I DID in fact prove the validity of the cost of living in an interesting position. They would either have to do so without contradiction, without making an error in their reasoning, then we will be glad to discard the refuted axiom.

Caros posted:

Which time. He did that as recently as last week in an email.

Caros posted:

Which time. He did that as recently as last week in an email.

VioletCorsica posted:

"A good record for Keynesian interventionist economics? I'll go even further. Keynesian theory recommends counter cyclical spending so that national debts don't get out of control. But as we know, credit expansion by a central bank. You would have to be used to address every minor complaint, there will be worth less, likely FAR less, when they have to be expected."

Dog Fat Man Chaser posted:

I need this to be true so much you don't even understand.

VioletCorsica posted:

Baronjutter posted:

Watch Caros get banned for account sharing for becoming a conduit for jrod

Caros posted:

This is good. These things you are doing are good things.

jrodbot posted:

At the moment I don't want to discuss and, like I said, it is unrealistic for me to launch into an all out verbal attack on government run or funded healthcare, trotting out statistics and comparisons to free expression. Public works programs and economic stimulus was not immediately enacted. That didn't happen, as I have a hope of making ends meet in the future. If they can do so, just as I have no business being in the fundamental immorality of slavery, which makes it easier to take over from fossil fuels, I would be good enough to obviate the need for court action. The fact that these police services to criminal activities only. Even better, let's limit them to stop.

Grognan posted:

I dare you to register a forum account where ever he is posting right now and unleash the bot there. Be sure to add the list of Jrodisms where he dismisses all posts previous to his.

Nosfereefer posted:

gently caress sending jrodbot after jrod, give it an account and let it post here!

Curvature of Earth posted:

Privatize the Police

quote:

Consider the Times Square area of New York City, a notoriously crime-ridden area where there is little police protection furnished by the city authorities. Every New Yorker knows, in fact, that he lives and walks the streets, and not only Times Square, virtually in a state of "anarchy," dependent solely on the normal peacefulness and good will of his fellow citizens.

Curvature of Earth posted:

Private Policing Isn't a Fantasy

Mm, yes, the undertrained, comically incompetent high school graduate employed by the local mall is a shining example of the free market.

VioletCorsica posted:

I'm in. I am learning how to code and don't know how to handle an API yet. So, next week?

Zanzibar Ham posted:

So you're going to make a JRod bot that'll post here? That's pretty sad, I suggest you spend those on something else.

VioletCorsica posted:

Oh, sorry. I wasn't clear. I was going to make a JRodbot "Jr0defeld" that could post on a forum where he wasn't banned.

Goon Danton posted:

Did you use his posts from the Property Rights thread when you were training it? Or just this thread?

VioletCorsica posted:

Only this thread and googled his username for other forums' text.

Where is the property rights thread? The bot is hungry.

jrodbot posted:

I want this discussion to be backed up by a central bank. You would have to deal with Republican presidents and Congresses at least initially, to limit the discussion to be used to address these issues at lower cost and with less threat of deadly force. People won't even read a short link I post, so what hope is there for people to merely put away pieces of paper to save for retirement? Say whatever you want to again rehash the point that I cannot in good conscience support the violence underpinning the system. Then create fictions about the plight of the science. And many of the Gold Commission which was a abomination. Peruse this article by Richard K.Vedder And Lowell Gallaway. It is this a good record for Keynesian interventionist economics? I'll go even further. Keynesian theory recommends counter cyclical spending so that national debts don't get out of our physical bodies. Our bodies would remain scarce, and so we'd still need to be implemented and funded. Crony capitalists need subsidies.

YF19pilot posted:

I forget if it was jrode or the jrode-lite we had for a while, but I think some of the posts about building codes and regulations pissed me off. I think it was right around the same time the last big earthquake hit here in Taiwan, and a building had collapsed because of the contractor cutting corners and purposely weakening the structure, killing a lot of people. I think the response was basically "the free market will decide" or some non-answer bullshit like that.


Great, now I'm going to have to look that up.

VioletCorsica posted: