Comment by neeson | Hacker News Reader

Comment by neeson | Hacker News Reader

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Dude, we get it. You're a libertarian. It's very exciting that you've figured absolutely everything out and can offer a ridiculously simple solution that civilizations for the last ten thousand years have somehow overlooked. It's just too bad that there are shadowy conspiracies aligned against you and other libertarians, and that people are so ignorant and brainwashed that they can't see how effective your exceedingly simplistic recommendations would be if only we could all agree to make vast sweeping changes to how our governments work.

Sorry for the bile, but wow is this ideology, and it's increasing presence on this site, getting tedious to me.

These ideas are not new. They are not as brilliant as you think, and in fact are a sign of intellectual immaturity - a stage that you grow out of once you start to realize how irreducibly complex the actual world is.

Or maybe I'm wrong, and you have figured it all out. Luckily for you we have a system that's perfect for people who know for certain how the economy will behave. Let me know when you've made your billions shorting the US economy. A great way to get past believing in simplistic ideologies is to start putting your money where your mouth is.

You assume my money isn't where my mouth is because yours isn't. Your just insulting me because you don't have a counter argument. It's a shame that so many on this site are so young or poorly educated that they are voting up your name calling and voting down my argument.

I made a killing knowing the housing market was going to be in a bubble. Ni figured this out around 2001 so I got to work both sides-- the run pup and the fall. I make a handsome income betting on economic ignorance in the us, and so I should thank you for taking the other side of some very profitable trades.

I do so well that I don't have to work for others and can fund my own startup ideas at funding levels equivalent to small VC deals or large angel deals.

The reality is, civilizations and economists have figured out the science I am attempting to educate you on. Keynesianism is relatively new, which apparently is news to you.

The problem you have us that you reject the science of economics because it doesn't agree with your socialist religion. You probably don't even think of yourself as a socialist.

Ultimately your ignorance and resorting to personal attack instead of argument, and the ditto head voting in this thread prove my thesis.

Correct, I'm not addressing your argument. What I'm doing is scolding you for highjacking this thread with your simple-minded ideology.

I've always come to this site for interesting and novel ways of looking at the world. What you're offering is neither. We've heard it before.

Perhaps instead of considering all the negative votes as further reinforcement of your views, how about looking at it this way: maybe it's the wisdom of the crowds telling you that your ideology isn't as revolutionary or as brilliant as you think it is, and maybe it's a sign that using HN as a soapbox for it isn't welcome.

This has nothing to do with socialism (or whatever you perceive to be your ideological enemy). It's about the the intellectual value of what you are bringing to the conversation.

You're fucking idiot who has nothing to offer but insults. The reason is that you have been trained not to think. Of course those who do think are quite a threat. So you attack. It really shows hphow pathetic you are.

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