Scrooge Defended

Ganbare Gincun · Post by **Ganbare Gincun** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 3:53 am

Some Glibertarian fun, just in time for the holidays!

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 5:11 am

Although crotchety and complaining, Scrooge isn't exactly a bad guy. He gives his employee a day off when he asks, and helps his relatives through school, and otherwise doesn't get involved in any vice around him. He may not donate or be pleasant, but we usually say those things are not signs of goodliness or not.

But then again, in that defense, it's quite proven that they have no idea what taxes paid for in his age; no idea of the power dichotomy between employer and employee; and I must point out these are the same guys who are perfectly happy to let theocrats run around ruining things.

So they really truly sound like a parody, don't they?

-Crissa

Cielingcat · Post by **Cielingcat** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:56 am

I was reading that, and was like "wow, this sounds ridiculous." Then I read "Advancing the scholarship of liberty in the tradition of the Austrian school."

I mean, I could go on about how this is basically them fellating the idea of the rich, miserly boss-but seriously. I don't need to, it's up in the title.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:30 am

Scrooge was just an introvert who lost his best friend and only had his job left to console him. He knew right was paying what you owe on time, and wrong was not paying what you owe on time.

Scrooge was the truest American that ever worked for Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup, or any other housing finance lender in 2008.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:32 am

Ah, the Mises institute. Is there any villainy they won´t support?

-Username17

Crissa · Post by **Crissa** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:58 am

I'm sure there is, I just don't know what.

-Crissa

Heath Robinson · Post by **Heath Robinson** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 11:44 am

Crissa wrote:I'm sure there is, I just don't know what.

-Crissa

I'm pretty sure they'd be against the creation of man-ape hybrids.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:04 pm

They were against government interference in the form of beating Celera to completing the genome, so I think that actually the Mises Institute would be all over letting privately owned corporations make themselves a laborforce of servile man-apes.

But really, I think the best refutation of their entire theory is that they refuse to allow it to be tested. The whole point of Austrian Economics is that it does not believe in testable or falsifiable hypotheses. It claims instead that it can derive all precepts from "axioms" of human behavior and naval gazing. In short: they have a series of premises that they refuse to question or test, and all their conclusions are derived from those. It's not science: it's a religion. A pretty hateful religion actually.

-Username17

Gnosticism Is A Hoot · Tue Nov 24, 2009 4:56 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:They were against government interference in the form of beating Celera to completing the genome, so I think that actually the Mises Institute would be all over letting privately owned corporations make themselves a laborforce of servile man-apes.

But really, I think the best refutation of their entire theory is that they refuse to allow it to be tested. The whole point of Austrian Economics is that it does not believe in testable or falsifiable hypotheses. It claims instead that it can derive all precepts from "axioms" of human behavior and naval gazing. In short: they have a series of premises that they refuse to question or test, and all their conclusions are derived from those. It's not science: it's a religion. A pretty hateful religion actually.

-Username17

This. My visiting Microeconomics tutor last year was a devotee of the Austrian school, and he was pretty hilarious.

In a sad way.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 8:49 am

Gnosticism Is A Hoot wrote:This. My visiting Microeconomics tutor last year was a devotee of the Austrian school, and he was pretty hilarious.

In a sad way.

Eww, I hope you weren't paying much for that.