Remind me, why are you calling the inability of some to find sex a “market failure”? It might well be that the “market” does not think the package they are offering in exchange is good enough.
Let, me translate that into the unemployment analogy for you:
Remind me, why are [we] calling the inability of some to find a job a “market failure”? It might well be that the “market” does not think the package they are offering in exchange is good enough.
Consider what the reaction would be to someone who made the above statement. Heck, I’m not even sure Donald Trump could survive making it.
Instead, the basic complaint looks much more like the classic entitlement narrative
Except have you seen any other instance of the entitlement narrative get the same kind of reaction.
Consider what the reaction would be to someone who made the above statement.
Mild. There has been a mostly polite discussion of the so-called zero marginal product workers, that is, people who are of no use (and, actually, often bring negative utility) to an employer. More generally, the idea that some people can’t hold (and eventually can’t find) a job is not particularly controversial.
Consider what the reaction would be to someone who made the above statement. Heck, I’m not even sure Donald Trump could survive making it.
Mild. There has been a mostly polite discussion of the so-called zero marginal product workers, that is, people who are of no use (and, actually, often bring negative utility) to an employer.
That’s not what I said. I said, consider what the reaction would be if someone made the above statement (in those words).
Also, most of the discussion of zero marginal product workers is along the lines of, “it is the fault of government regulation that these workers are zmp, hence said regulations should be repealed”.
But it isn’t worded in a “sufficiently disingenuous way”, it’s worded in a way similar to Lumifer’s sex statement. If it isn’t acceptable because of the offensive wording, why is the sex statement acceptable?
Let, me translate that into the unemployment analogy for you:
Consider what the reaction would be to someone who made the above statement. Heck, I’m not even sure Donald Trump could survive making it.
Except have you seen any other instance of the entitlement narrative get the same kind of reaction.
Mild. There has been a mostly polite discussion of the so-called zero marginal product workers, that is, people who are of no use (and, actually, often bring negative utility) to an employer. More generally, the idea that some people can’t hold (and eventually can’t find) a job is not particularly controversial.
I don’t know what reaction are you talking about.
That’s not what I said. I said, consider what the reaction would be if someone made the above statement (in those words).
Also, most of the discussion of zero marginal product workers is along the lines of, “it is the fault of government regulation that these workers are zmp, hence said regulations should be repealed”.
Depending on the audience, of course. Among smart people, mild. Could it create a Twitter shitstorm? Probably could. So what?
Yeah, even statements with uncontroversial factual accuracy can be offensive when worded in a sufficiently disingenuous way. That’s a quite general phenomenon, with hardly anything specific to your example. So what’s your point?
But it isn’t worded in a “sufficiently disingenuous way”, it’s worded in a way similar to Lumifer’s sex statement. If it isn’t acceptable because of the offensive wording, why is the sex statement acceptable?