AOC Disappointed To Learn The 'Free Market' Isn't A Store Where You Don't Pay

Phantasmal said:
It satire, the babylonbee is a satirical site. It’s like people on FB and Twitter thinking Andy Borowitz is serious.
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I was replying to dukkha, who said: "millennials like your self are dumb ass socialists Bernie - "more free shit! elect me!""

And I'm positive most Trumpcucks think the Babylonbee articles are real.
 
Althea said:
You have to love the college dropouts, or those with no education who claim AOC is stupid.
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I have tried to explain comedy to conservatives, but apparently to no avail.

Satire and parody are only funny if there is a kernel of truth underlying them. Portraying AOC as a clueless moron just doesn't cut the mustard, man!
 
dukkha said:
no it's realistic way of pointing out the "free stuff" doesn't add to economic development, or create jobs, etc.
Plus it has to be done with taxation - more economic stagnation
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Reducing inequality actually helps the economy. It doesn't cause stagnation, rather it helps small businesses. And as you pointed out, it's not "free stuff." It's paid for with taxes, much like police and firefighters.
 
dukkha said:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has struggled to get by on her new six-figure salary, given the high cost of living in her luxurious Washington, D.C. crib.

So when she heard in passing that the United States has a "free market" economy, she was ecstatic. She immediately set out in an Uber to try to find one of the free markets, assuming they were grocery stores where you don't have to pay for anything.

"I'm really, like really excited," she said on a live Instagram video. "I thought the U.S. was all about oppressive capitalistic systems of inequality, but when I heard about these free markets, I realized we were in better shape than I had thought."

However, after her Uber had driven her all over the city for several hours, she hadn't found a single free market anywhere and had to settle for going to some stores where people are free to buy, sell, and exchange goods and services with one another.

"This is basically Nazi Germany," she said. "All these people spending money they earned doing work to buy things of their own free will? Without the government allocating resources as they see fit?"
https://babylonbee.com/news/ocasio-...082sCnu0a0mJvZ8zVM0R318Y12QkCS1PRiOCj7X3Vnab0
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A really stupid Alt Right joke. Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude in economics, so knows more about the free market than you ever will.
 
dukkha said:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has struggled to get by on her new six-figure salary, given the high cost of living in her luxurious Washington, D.C. crib.

So when she heard in passing that the United States has a "free market" economy, she was ecstatic. She immediately set out in an Uber to try to find one of the free markets, assuming they were grocery stores where you don't have to pay for anything.

"I'm really, like really excited," she said on a live Instagram video. "I thought the U.S. was all about oppressive capitalistic systems of inequality, but when I heard about these free markets, I realized we were in better shape than I had thought."

However, after her Uber had driven her all over the city for several hours, she hadn't found a single free market anywhere and had to settle for going to some stores where people are free to buy, sell, and exchange goods and services with one another.

"This is basically Nazi Germany," she said. "All these people spending money they earned doing work to buy things of their own free will? Without the government allocating resources as they see fit?"
https://babylonbee.com/news/ocasio-...082sCnu0a0mJvZ8zVM0R318Y12QkCS1PRiOCj7X3Vnab0
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I've heard of that joke before. It gets old.


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Walt said:
A really stupid Alt Right joke. Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude in economics, so knows more about the free market than you ever will.
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she doesn't show it! she's a socialist -about as far away from free market as you can get unless a complete commie
Babylon Bee isn't "Alt-right"
 
StoneByStone said:
Reducing inequality actually helps the economy. It doesn't cause stagnation, rather it helps small businesses. And as you pointed out, it's not "free stuff." It's paid for with taxes, much like police and firefighters.
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you don't understand GDP. simply shuffling around money does not increase wealth.
Increasing wealth is how we grow the economy, etc. nobody said anything bout "stagnation"
 
dukkha said:
you don't understand GDP. simply shuffling around money does not increase wealth.
Increasing wealth is how we grow the economy, etc. nobody said anything bout "stagnation"
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You brought up stagnation in your other comment.

Decentralizing wealth increases living standards, which is something real Americans care about.
 
dukkha said:
you don't understand GDP. simply shuffling around money does not increase wealth.
Increasing wealth is how we grow the economy, etc. nobody said anything bout "stagnation"
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You ranted against free stuff. You were correct that it does not increase GDP, but are wrong about it not increasing wealth. Economists noticed this about a century ago. The example used is somewhat outdated, but still useable.

If you marry your housekeeper, you decrease the GDP. You were paying her $20k a year, which was $20k extra on GDP. In return, she was cleaning the house. If you marry her, she is still getting the money, but because it is considered to be staying in the household, it is not added to the GDP. She is still doing the cleaning, but that cleaning service is considered free now.

The second part where you claim that government services like building roads are free and therefore not adding to wealth is even more incorrect. Because money is changing hands, it adds to both the GDP and the wealth of the economy. It is a service that helps other goods and services come to market, so it creates a lot of wealth.

Honestly, Ocasio-Cortez could explain all this even better than I could. She is a well educated, intelligent person.
 
AProudLefty said:
No problem. Just don't understand why mocking her college education in economics is funny.
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Because she is such a idiot most are surprised she made it through college. I wonder how many professors she had to blow? Notice her anti virus mask has a hole in the middle. I guess she is ready
 
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