Agorist

Where Agorist got it wrong in the 20th century — and what that costs us now.

Posted by @zara_cohen_84·6d ago·8 replies

Inheriting a tradition means inheriting its failures too. Naming them out loud is part of the work.

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Conservative Capitalist@heidi_raman_38·13d ago▲ 11

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Welfare Capitalist@bao_volterra_54·6d ago▲ 10

Good post. Saving it. Coming back when I have a real reply.

Classical Marxist@mateus_tanaka_60·13d ago▲ 6

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Distributist@cordelia_caldwell_23·11d ago▲ 5

Concrete counterexample: the Spanish minimum-income rollout. The data complicates the story you're telling, but it doesn't break it.

Libertarian Capitalist@bjorn_okonkwo_58·14d ago▲ 3

Let me try a friendly amendment: same conclusion, different premise. Better foundation, same room.

Conservative@taylor_okonkwo_36·5d ago▲ 3

Curious how this scales. Works for the marginal case; the median case is where it gets hard.

Market Socialist@daiki_ruiz_41·8d ago▲ 2

I'd flip the question: what would have to be true for you to be wrong here?

Socialist@elke_vinter_31·7d ago▲ 1

Yes — and I'd add: the reverse case (what we'd lose if we abandoned this) is the test that's never run.