• Kalcifer
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    -628 days ago

    […] trickle-down economics is an absurd nonsense theory […]

    Would you mind defining exactly what you mean by “trickle down economics”?

    • @marcos
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      527 days ago

      If it had a definition, it wouldn’t be nonsense, would it?

      “Trickle down economics” is a rhetoric instrument by which people try to convince the public that taxing poor people and fiscally spending in rich people will increase the poor people’s quality of life.

      • Kalcifer
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        327 days ago

        If it had a definition, it wouldn’t be nonsense, would it?

        It would depend on the definition in question. The term in a vacuum is just a collection of words — what those words mean is rather important, imo.

        • @marcos
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          126 days ago

          Well, ok, turns out I wrote a definition of the next line.

          It’s a nonsensical economical theory, with no definition on the context of economics.

          • Kalcifer
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            026 days ago

            […] no definition on the context of economics.

            Do you mean that, in your opinion, it has definitions in other contexts? If so, what would it be, and what would the contexts be?

          • Kalcifer
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            26 days ago

            […] It’s a nonsensical economical theory, with no definition on the context of economics.

            Hrm, if it has no definition in the context of economics, how could you know argue that, by its definition, it is a nonsensical economic theory? That seems to fail modus ponens.