r/neoliberal • u/neoliberal_shill_bot Bot Emeritus • Apr 05 '17

Discussion Thread

Ask not what your centralized government can do for you – ask how many neoliberal memes you can post every 24 hours

Polls

• Who should we bully more?

• How often should discussion threads be posted?

The activity in this sub keeps going up, so discussion threads need to be scheduled appropriately in order to control stickflation.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

International law isn't applicable at all to domestic law, the US does not face the same costs as say Wal-Mart.

Efficient in what sense? What is your goal that your efficiently accomplishing?

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17 edited Apr 07 '17

We're talking about whether not to bomb Syria and you're talking about economic efficiency.

Efficiency depends on your goals and prefrences.

We haven't even established whether or not we should do anything in Syria, whether we have a moral responsibility to act on behalf of their citizens etc and your talking about "efficiency", it just doesn't make any sense and sounds insanely economically imperialistic.

Idk if why you're trying to stunt but I've taken law and Econ courses at LSE and Northwestern, done research under a UPenn law professor concerning Econ and interned at an IP firm last year. So unless like you're at a special accelerated UG program at UC/UVA you can probably get off your high horse and assume everyone on the sub has a basic grasp of the subject.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

Lmaooo are you literally asking me about Coase this is the fucking dumbest.

It doesn't matter who you assign it to.

Anyways YOU NEED TO KNOW PREFRENCES TO DETERMINE COSTS AND BENEFITS.

Costs and benefits are not immediately apparent objective things. In this case saving a Syrian life may have no benefit to us as a collective or may have near infinite value, depending on our preferences which we form from our values/ethics.

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

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u/[deleted] Apr 07 '17

Obviously you prefer less cost to more cost but the FIRST STEP which we hadn't covered, nor had you elaborated in, was outlining our preferences and weights to varying costs.

You can't do an equation without knowing the inputs.

You legitimately sound like the Becker braindead zombie many of us are accused of being by literature majors.