tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post5494994371235589458..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Socialism and Social DemocracySabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-37684371226981018692016-03-23T08:33:45.841-04:002016-03-23T08:33:45.841-04:00Lumo, and others who clearly don't know what s...Lumo, and others who clearly don't know what social democracy is, don't be ignorant. Learn about it before you claim to know about it. It's very clear you have no idea what you're talking about. I'm from Sweden but living in the US now, and I can for my life not understand how/why people fail to educate themselves on a subject before they start talking about it. It's Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13724983169602340174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-85369235271413701172008-11-02T21:14:00.000-05:002008-11-02T21:14:00.000-05:00Joshua> Silicon Valley is becomming a colony of...Joshua<BR/><BR/>> Silicon Valley is becomming a colony of China and India.<BR/><BR/>So you 'know nothing' about the IT industry as well. Instead of watching hate TV and listening to hate radio you should actually talk to some of us in the business. And yes I can tell you the origins of the name and I could before wikipedia.<BR/><BR/>You babble about US population explosions and Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-6864424089467416162008-11-02T18:16:00.000-05:002008-11-02T18:16:00.000-05:00Anon 2:11 PMThese days, When I come across comment...Anon 2:11 PM<BR/><BR/>These days, When I come across comments like the ones in your post, I do a big yawn.<BR/><BR/>With very high probability, you know very little about the Know Nothings. Can you tell me the origin of the expression "Know Nothing?"<BR/><BR/>The Northern faction of the Know Nothing party-and this was a the poltical strongest faction of the Know Nothing party-was fanatically Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-85587966959638497522008-11-02T14:11:00.000-05:002008-11-02T14:11:00.000-05:00Joshua;You're a racist (and a probable science fic...Joshua;<BR/><BR/>You're a racist (and a probable science fiction fan but there's no shame in the later). Reread your comments. You make no sense. If interested, research 'know nothings'. The arguments you make, the ones that are (barely) intelligible, were made in the 19th century. Somehow the country didn't collapse.<BR/><BR/>re: 'Barack Obama is your basic run-of-the mill- bullshitter'<BR/><BR/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-17806690591412709042008-11-02T14:01:00.000-05:002008-11-02T14:01:00.000-05:00AnonI'm a realist about reality. The facts about r...Anon<BR/><BR/>I'm a realist about reality. The facts about reality aren't going away because you pretend they don't exist.<BR/><BR/>The recent study by the Havard sociologist Putnam-"Bowling alone in America"-makes it very clear that America is breaking up into race based micro-states. Of course, ordinary Americans already understood that this was going on. Liberal academics are just waking up toAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-70396426426579344322008-11-01T19:53:00.000-04:002008-11-01T19:53:00.000-04:00Economic uncertainty, a high unemployment rate, lo...Economic uncertainty, a high unemployment rate, low social security and lacking medical care doesn't increase the female reproduction rate if the culture accepts birth control. The only way the US population will increase to 1 billion any time soon is massive immigration. If Obama doesn't win the election, I wouldn't be surprised however if it's Canada instead who sees an increase of immigration Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-50749485229420944592008-11-01T17:12:00.000-04:002008-11-01T17:12:00.000-04:00>If Barack Obama gets his way, the US will expe...>If Barack Obama gets his way, the US will experience a massive demographic transition and very rapid population increase. With Barack Obama or John McCain as president, their bipartisan immigration policy -tripling legal immigration and wiping away the US border- the US population could hit the one billion mark within 25 years.<BR/><BR/>That's just weird.<BR/>What is it about the strong Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-32650898536865871062008-11-01T07:44:00.000-04:002008-11-01T07:44:00.000-04:00john gI am all for forgiving worker debt. It has b...john g<BR/><BR/>I am all for forgiving worker debt. It has been done before-as far back as three thousand years ago in the middle east. But I am oppposed to bad policies that increase the scale of pre-existing policies.<BR/><BR/>Joshua CahmberlainAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38028445369571547092008-10-31T18:30:00.000-04:002008-10-31T18:30:00.000-04:00From a values point of view, one should think of p...From a values point of view, one should think of people in other countries too not just their home country. If bankers can get bailed out from low demand problems, shouldn't workers get bailed out too! Supply and demand is actually why we have products made with cheap Chinese and immigrant labor. I think you need to stick to keeping the blame on the totalitarian rulers rather than falling intoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-72854637445659791152008-10-31T16:54:00.000-04:002008-10-31T16:54:00.000-04:00john gYou might have heard of something called the...john g<BR/><BR/>You might have heard of something called the law of supply and demand. It is one of the few things economist have ever gotten right. The blueprint for keeping wages low for American workers is to maintain or increase curret levels of legal and illegal immigration.There is 42 years of evidence for this. A blueprint for reducing union memebership:maintian or increase curretn levelsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-32727846158421864772008-10-31T15:33:00.000-04:002008-10-31T15:33:00.000-04:00"The passage of the 1965 immigration refrom act op..."The passage of the 1965 immigration refrom act opened the flood gates to Mexican and Central American immigration. As a consequence, a huge market of low income people seeking the American middle class dream was created. Throw in the free market nonsense of Bill Clinton who effectively ended the regulation of finacial markets and massive Wall greed.... bingo, the US economy teter-toters on Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-13265638250616316172008-10-31T10:08:00.000-04:002008-10-31T10:08:00.000-04:00Bee wrote about doing controlled social experiment...Bee wrote about doing controlled social experiments. The best you can do is look at similar social experiments that were performed in the past. Of course, no two situations past and present can be perfectly identical-all things not being equal. <BR/><BR/>Also, rational counterfactual scenarios are/can be very uselfull. Actually, I think these are very important in avoiding bad policies. Looking Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-3188994348614022162008-10-31T00:39:00.000-04:002008-10-31T00:39:00.000-04:00Hi Cynthia,First off let’s not confuse my disagree...Hi Cynthia,<BR/><BR/>First off let’s not confuse my disagreeing with you as being nasty, for what I meant in referring to you having a panic attack was strictly my considered reaction to the fear you were not only expressing, yet propagating. I believe at any time of crisis one needs to control fear rather then build on it or spread it to others. If you have read what I’ve had to say on the Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-33450785175433939572008-10-31T00:17:00.000-04:002008-10-31T00:17:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-82250081681414626342008-10-30T19:18:00.000-04:002008-10-30T19:18:00.000-04:00Hi Andrei,What you seem to be saying, assuming I'm...Hi Andrei,<BR/><BR/>What you seem to be saying, assuming I'm reading you right, is that all extremists, whether from the Left or Right, have no place in Reality. I couldn't agree more!<BR/><BR/>Let me skip over pure-play politics and say a word or two about economics laced with a little politics...<BR/><BR/>It strikes me as ironic that Joe McCarthy and his band of fascist followers had many of JMcynthiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01031186235906175633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-44406230882097776262008-10-30T18:19:00.000-04:002008-10-30T18:19:00.000-04:00Hi Imam,Yes, of course, the past has a long and do...Hi Imam,<BR/><BR/>Yes, of course, the past has a long and documented history of 'experiements' from which to learn. For this to work, one has to state precisely the conditions and identify the relevant factors. Custom designed 'experiments' in social sciences are chronically difficult, but are on small scales possible and also used in research. I think they could and should be done on larger Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-64350121400383828542008-10-30T16:26:00.000-04:002008-10-30T16:26:00.000-04:00Phil,Since you think I'm having a panic attack, th...Phil,<BR/><BR/>Since you think I'm having a panic attack, then you should also think that Warren Buffett and Joseph Stiglitz are having panic attacks, too! While I describe what is happening in the market as akin to having a bout of epileptic seizures, Buffett and Stiglitz have described it as akin to being in full-blown cardiac arrest or having severely occluded coronary arteries, respectively.cynthiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01031186235906175633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-37665788394013530752008-10-30T09:35:00.000-04:002008-10-30T09:35:00.000-04:00Cynthia said: “Right-wingers tend to have a fascis...Cynthia said: “Right-wingers tend to have a fascist streak in them, whether they are living on the left or right side of the pond.”<BR/><BR/>When do you think can it happen that those “fascists” and “communists” will collapse upon each other and annihilate, like matter and antimatter particles, after which the remaining normal people will live peacefully and creatively on all sides of the pond? [Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-55476798433579302852008-10-30T06:52:00.000-04:002008-10-30T06:52:00.000-04:00Hi Cynthia,“It's ugly; it's nasty; it's heartbreak...Hi Cynthia,<BR/>“It's ugly; it's nasty; it's heartbreaking. It's equivalent to watching someone go in and out of an almost never-ending series of epileptic seizures, despite the fact that doses of anti-convulsives have all been titrated up to their maximum flow rates!”<BR/><BR/>Not to worry no bubble was burst, except perhaps the markets one. You will note I mentioned it was briefly. I also Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-37848481871643833512008-10-29T21:48:00.000-04:002008-10-29T21:48:00.000-04:00Bee, you often tell us that the scientific method ...Bee, you often tell us that the scientific method should be applied to social "science" problems. Why not do that here? Look around the world and see for yourself how often and under what circumstances social democracy etc etc actually work when real life "experiments" have been performed. Don't assume that what goes on in Germany or the USA are the only alternatives. <BR/><BR/>My collation of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-27217565277328550882008-10-29T20:31:00.000-04:002008-10-29T20:31:00.000-04:00What you say doesn't surprise me in the least, Rie...What you say doesn't surprise me in the least, Rien. Right-wingers tend to have a fascist streak in them, whether they are living on the left or right side of the pond.cynthiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01031186235906175633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-23447690308475235122008-10-29T19:56:00.000-04:002008-10-29T19:56:00.000-04:00Yes, Lubos, Sweden has had a center-right governme...Yes, Lubos, Sweden has had a center-right government for two full years now. That oughtta counteract any totalitarian tendencies. (Except that one of the things they've done recently was to push through a US-inspired warrantless wiretapping law to spy on all internet and cell phone communication. So who is the totalitarian there?)<BR/><BR/>But keep it coming, it makes for amusing reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-12648389469373052342008-10-29T15:47:00.000-04:002008-10-29T15:47:00.000-04:00Hi Giotis,There is a huge difference between Pepsi...Hi Giotis,<BR/><BR/>There is a huge difference between Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola if you frequently drink it. <BR/><BR/>I am not particularly interested in documenting differences between SPD and CDU. I haven't really been following German politics for the last some years. Otoh, I think there's an election next year, so maybe should get myself up to date. I roughly agree that the differences Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-71724711192150431542008-10-29T15:15:00.000-04:002008-10-29T15:15:00.000-04:00Bee it would be better if you could tell us the di...Bee it would be better if you could tell us the difference between the Social democratic and the conservative parties in Europe. In Germany for example what is the difference between SPD and CDU? Similarly what is the difference in practice between the conservative and the labor party in UK?<BR/><BR/>Let me answer that question: Absolutely none. The one is of Coca-cola and the other of Pepsi-colaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-69587796852295655212008-10-29T14:09:00.000-04:002008-10-29T14:09:00.000-04:00The American people revolted against the privatiza...The American people revolted against the privatization of Social Security. They will revolt against other extreme free market shennanigans. If you take the screw ball Lubos Motl seriously, the American people, in rejecting extreme privatization, have given their blessing to a future Gulag.<BR/><BR/>Joshua ChamberlainAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com