Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "SHOCKER: Ben Shapiro Doesn't Believe in a "Living Wage"" video.

  1. It's just harking back to the gibberish talked by F A Harper - an "economist" much loved by Charles Koch. His line was that things like social security, municipal housing, socialised healthcare, state provided education etc all distorted wages which, if determined by market forces, would settle at the level which would be best for both business and all the individuals concerned, with each then able to make their own choices about how they spent those wages. Utter bollocks, of course. The magic detail about this branch of "economics" is that it never needs to provide empirical evidence to back it up. Because the policy proposals it results in benefit the ultra rich, there is never any shortage of donations to fund the "educational" institutions which teach it. Were it not for that magic detail, Harper, along with Hayek, Friedman, Von Mises, Laffer etc would never have even made a living, let alone influenced government policy for five decades and creepy little know-nothing rich kids like Shapiro would have to work in a proper job like the rest of us.
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