Thanks admins, for keeping the most deranged anticommunists and others out of here, it’s made being here an awesome experience <3
Thanks admins, for keeping the most deranged anticommunists and others out of here, it’s made being here an awesome experience <3
Need help with this conversation here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/143fme2/kerala_has_achieved_a_groundbreaking_feat_by/jndg6w5/
Please provide some council over tackling such situations.
online conversations on Reddit and Twitter are not useful to convince the other person. they’re mainly useful to make your side seem more reasonable to random passers by who read the thread. if you’re not getting any upvotes or likes it is usually not useful to any movement to have that conversation.
Only reason I still visit reddit sometimes. Yeah, sure I’m not engaging any more on the thread.
They seem obnoxious. I could say how to address the arguments, but honestly you’re probably wasting your time debating a neoliberal deep in the comment section of a deleted post on r/India.
Yes, the post got deleted stating violations. And I stopped replying after a last reply. But sometimes talking to such brainwashed neoliberals is so interesting once you start paying attention to how their brain works.
Btw, the post was about a southern socialist state in India introducing its own fiber based high speed free internet to almost 30 lacs households accross state and all this neolib could talk about was how this step being anti-free market is supposedly bad.
Instead of replying on thread he messaged me the reply to my last comment. The text is so lengthy to post here, may be due to some technical limitations it show invalid-body error. But it’s a really interesting read and I wish I could post it here.
Edit: posted it below as the reply to this comment. Couldn’t make the spoiler tag work though.
This is the reply he messaged me.
People take loans and also just coz someone has that kind of money doesn’t mean it’s not precious for them.
And the worker is working for free? There ARE no humanitarian coz, the worker needs job the owner needs the product, the only reason this works is coz it’s mutually beneficial for both the parties and both the parties have come to an official agreement with mutual consent to help each other out.
Also it’s NOT called greed it’s called being aspirational. People who have an idea and who can give people what they want invest THEIR money and THEIR resources to provide the society what it needs in exchange they get money and when this happens many times it’s called a profit.
And the labourers can do shit if the owner goes under the bus or there aren’t enough people to own and thereby hire labourers.
And what’s wrong with generating profit again? Profit is the demarcator that tells you that what you’re doing is being used by the people in general.
That’s just not how it works. There are plenty of reasons for business failures bad workers being one of them
That’s not true atleast not in India which is a very big state polity where the govt is WAAAY more powerful than you have in the west. Also as I said the govt gives handouts to corporates to save the job of the little guy.
No, the states RESPONSIBILITY is to make sure law and order is maintained, also well being is a VERY subjective term definitely more subjective than saying providing internet for free will DEFINITELY be best for everyone. Maybe had the money been invested somewhere else it would have been OBJECTIVELY better? How would you even know what’s best when you don’t have a metric for it since you hate profits?
The state is the largest entity that oppresses people in the name of saving them. Private businesses generate employment which AGAIN happens when an employer and a worker reach at an agreement that they both need each other. The state is an entity that impedes this mutual agreement.
Coz profits are an incentive and an indicator that the product is ACTUALLY useful. The state on the other hand is too much of an enormous entity which has too much on its hands to ACCURATELY determine people’s needs.
Firstly the price of commodities are dynamically decided by the forces of the market i.e supply and demand which tell us ACCURATELY how much anything costs.
People and economy are a VERY diverse system NO central planner or single entity has the required information to design something that works for all, no one knows what works for all.
Only a stupid dumbfuck would want to buy a sub par good that too made with money which COULD have been invested somewhere better. Also it’s cheap for a reason…just coz you aren’t able to see it RIGHT NOW doesn’t mean it’s not there. Prices aren’t just RANDOM numbers that you can decide to give at. There’s a whole lot of economics behind it.
Also public sector companies are ALWAYS embroiled in either corruption or politics or both which ends up eating the taxpayer money. Look at all the PSUs and then figure out for yourself how good they’ve been.
That’s NOT true, the govt involvement in business infact is fairly new. Also JUST coz you can’t have an ideal free market system doesn’t negate the values of a free economy. And it can exist.
Unlike utopian socialism free market is a REAL and implementable idea. Just allow the people be. Give them MORE FREEDOM and MORE choices as easy as that.
Also the work of the govt is WAAAY more larger in scope for it to JUST jump into a business.
For both of these reasons the govt is mired with red- tapism.
No, the ONLY monopoly is govt monopolies. There’s ALWAYS innovation going around and when a new player comes in and have a better product they can easily replace the monopoly, if the person starts exploiting people coz of it.
If you want you can read the case study of Netflix and Blockbuster. The ONLY thing the govt does is to increase the barrier of entry for the newcomer and thereby increasing monopolistic behaviour.
Well being…again a subjective word…maybe instead of spending on internet had it been used in education it would have been better, maybe increasing the infrastructure would’ve created better jobs…who knows?
Lol had it been that simple India would have been a devloped economy by now. The govt involvement is what makes monopolies possible in the first case, also who’s to say what is too much of a monopoly?
Are you going to penalise growth now?
Coz govt isn’t DRIVEN by the same incentive, govt is a political entity which CANNOT do business coz it doesn’t have the requisite information to conduct business. Which is why there’s much corruption in these sectors. They look into the economy, the demand of the consumer and plethora of other factors that are needed to start the production of anything, you can’t just randomly go around buliding stuff without knowing the nuances of the economy.
They aren’t bigger they’re just better at doing business coz they’re driven by an incentive and have the expertise to drive a business. Govt doesn’t have any of it. Also it knowledge deficient.
Lol what’s exactly “immoral”? Earning profits? It’s a vague word to throw around.
It’s SUCH an irony that you’ve used an example of a country that’s probably more capitalistic than India can ever be.
You realise most of the PSUs and inefficiency come from the previous govt? India’s fall of economy happened started during early 90s as a result of the bleeding PSUs not to mention the inefficiencies and corruption is a result of that only.
By probably creating a police state. And again you’re quite underestimating the complexity of economics you can’t just do it by using technology. That’s just NOT how it works.
Who will decide how equal we should be? Also you want equality of what? Equality of opportunity or equality of outcome?
Plus you should mention here that equality isn’t an OBJECTIVE virtue, people can be equally destitute. Just like Afghanistan is.
Exactly and there’s no way for the govt to run a PSU efficiently coz of the lack of knowledge and the dynamic needs of the market, which fluctuate and thereby requiring efforts on the individual end to change with time. Which is NOT possible for an entity as big as the govt coz it’s managing a large system which makes it very bulky.
No it shows that the govt wants to make ACTUALLY empowered and free citizens who value individual rights and dignity and also value merit instead of making the society a collection of leeches and beggars who are always waiting for someone else to do their job for them or for someone else to buy them internet.
It also means that the govt values pvt initiatives and values individual economic freedom which makes innovation possible.
I wouldn’t waste my time talking to this guy.
It’s quite refreshing to talk to this neoliberal shit living in alternate universe.
I am not gonna leave him untill he stops replying to me. I am gonna be typing a lot again. I can make him think I did not have talking points any more or I got enlightened by his shitty point of view.
This guy is a nightmare. If I were to say some things I’d say, if markets are so great and the state is so bad then why is Lybia not paradise right now? It’s got a fail state with no power and the market is so “free” that there’s an open air slave trade. If profits are a measure of how good an institution is for society then why aren’t libraries highly profitable? (Then, of course these types probably don’t even believe in libraries). If supply and demand is so great then what should the price be when there is equal supply and demand? You can measure quality of life, it can be shown through literacy, poverty, longevity, and other statistics, all of which are far better. If increasing internet access is good, who cares if the effort could have been used on something slightly better? I could go on but I won’t. Understand the desire to have the last word, but it’s not worth your time. Just say “you’re too dogmatic to consider anything I’ve written because you are trapped in a fantasyland divorced from reality. Thus, I will cease to discuss with you, as you are not worth the energy.” They’ll either cope with a couple more comments saying “what!? Debate me!” Or they’ll assume they won, and either way it should not matter to you.
What would be your counter points to address his arguments in his reply that I have posted here. I wanna get more confident on discussions with neoliberals so that people can see the counter points being more reasonable.