On: How to earn a billion dollars

[taffer]

> "Mainstream economics" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

As is "mainstream medicine" or "mainstream climate science". If you don't trust mainstream science, you must be either extremely smart or just delusional.

[demorro → taffer]

Surely you can see that not trusting mainstream economics shouldn't be as controversial as the hard sciences. Mainstream economics consistently fails to make correct or replicatable predictions.

[andrekandre → taffer]

economics isn't a hard science though; and there is a lot of politics underlying a lot of theory there (see the laffer curve/trickle down etc)

[_DeadFred_ → taffer]

Soft sciences are not at all the same thing as hard science.

[taffer → _DeadFred_]

Neither is medicine, climate science, nor the marxist interpretation of the labor theory of value I was replying to.