• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “this literal economist says my beliefs are fringe so clearly he’s full of shit”

    Lmao dude you can just be fringe it’s ok

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      1 year ago

      First of all, being a literal economist doesn’t preclude him from being a literal idiot talking out his ass.

      For example, Milton Friedman is a Nobel price winning economist and has been so wrong so many times that he’s probably caused more deaths and economic destruction than most wars.

      Ironically, dividing all schools of thought with regards of one of the most hotly debated subjects in the history of humanity into only orthodoxy and fringe is the kind of thing that would be the fringe of the fringe within RELIGION, let alone any academic subject.