Thursday, January 30, 2014

The Percentage of Protectionists Who've Ever Actually Opened an Introductory Economics Textbook

It's gotta be in the low single digits.

9 comments:

dmarks said...

A protectionist is an ignorant and arrogant person who is careless about the needs, desires, and lives of others... and presumes to make their personal choices for them.

It is almost a form of sociopath: someone who acts without concern or feeling for others.

The disorder of protectionism is motivated by something that ranges from megalomania (desire to control society) to basic personal selfishness/

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

It's what tends to happen when insular and crazy individuals educate themselves entirely via the internet.......And these people say that they like consensus. Well, guess what, there is far, FAR, more consensus on free trade among economists (90+%) than there is global warming among scientists (I alone could dictate a list of hundreds of skeptics). That, and it's infinitely more logical, too.

BB-Idaho said...

Unless you write in broad hyperbole, you are looking in the wrong places for the socio/psychopathic types.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

So bloggers didn't make the top 10, huh? That surprises me.

BB-Idaho said...

You would think so, considering at least the political blog genre.
We may be sure there is some sort of psychology involved, likely the
anonymity factor. For example, I
have an acquaintance who is both
very fundamental religious and very conservative. He writes letters to the editor in the local rag which rank with the worst vitriol I've seen. In person, he is kind, thoughtful
and polite. Perhaps the opportunity to vent pent-up anger? (made a few comment myself of which I was not proud)

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

I know that I'm a much nicer person in person, that's for sure (the fact that I work with Alzheimer's patients while biting my lower lip continuously).

dmarks said...

Interesting. Al Gore, the boob who lied that he invented the Internet, and tried to overthrow the actual vote in 2000 due to what must have been some sort of feeling of entitlement, has as his career a combination of 5 or 6 of the psychopath vocations.

And he's not really present in the negative ones ("Nurse Al???")

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"So bloggers didn't make the top 10, huh? That surprises me."

They might, if not for comment moderation.

Will "take no prisoners" Hart said...

Yeah, that's quite an equalizer.

dmarks said...

He's gone off the rails. But having fun with it. Yeah, I did read one of his missives today. He talked about lotioning up so he could stick his *censored* into something. It's been going on a year now.....

Guy needs a girlfriend, or boyfriend, or whatever.