Yes, I am a white man, but I can't wait for reparations.
What crazed lefties don't get is that it is about entrepreneurship and production, not handouts and consumption to keep you in the good life.
So I have been thinking a lot about how to provide consumption services to guys like this when they get their reparation checks.
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Now, I have black friends who I would put in the Thomas Sowell category but that is not going to be where the action is, it is going to be with guys like the above.
The big winners are going to be the sellers of heavily marked up and tricked out used cars, spray-painted (and heavily marked up) athletic shoes, never before seen (and heavily marked up) cell phone covers, wild (and heavily marked up) parties at the Four Seasons. I am going to be at the service of the reparations receivers with this kind of stuff and a lot of reparations money is going to be back in the hands of this white man and very fast.
This is going to be my reparations angle, because the scam artists promoting reparations money either don't know or don't make anyone aware that it is about entrepreneurship and production for long term success, and money in the hands of high-time preference consumers is gone very quickly regardless of how much is given to them, it will be open season for white entrepreneurs and businessmen.
Let the reparations flow--I am waiting.
-RW
This is brilliant thinking. And perfectly correct. I love it.
ReplyDeleteThe guy in the video seemed like a towering intellect. I think he would also side with Croce in criticizing Pareto's restriction of economics to measurable quantities as arbitrary.
ReplyDeleteI would too, but "Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown" sucked!
Delete"What crazed lefties don't get is that it is about entrepreneurship and production, not handouts and consumption to keep you in the good life."
ReplyDeleteI disagree. They (at least on the leadership level and probably well below it) understand that it does they simply don't want to do the hard work of being productive but would rather have someone else do the work. That's why they demean it. Call people 'lucky' or say how they didn't do it on their own, or call people who are prudent hoarders and the much more and worse. They intentionally try to make it socially acceptable to steal the fruits of other people's labor. If they didn't believe a good life came from being productive they wouldn't have any interest in stealing the end result to make their and their followers lives better. The moment they make the argument it is to make people's lives better they admit a good life comes from productivity. They simply don't want it to be their own productivity.
Wow, RW posts a really cynical piece, and you leave an EVEN MORE cynical comment. Can't argue with either...
DeleteDave Chapel skit on this:
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"Reparations" will never be in the form a check to the reparees. The advocates of reparations will see it as permanent funding to a permanent bureaucracy to provide "targeted" community services. There will be no end date. The reparees will believe they were scammed and it will be in the interest of the permanent bureaucracy and various dependent community services to claim they can never get anything done because they don't get enough. Their failure will be presented as evidence of insufficient funding. In fact, any success in advancing the relative or absolute material status of American descendants of slavery ("ADOS") will be contrary to the interests of the bureaucracy. If direct cash payments were advocated it would have to be from the GOP. That would get out in front of the Dems and would undermine their desire to create a new federal "community welfare" bureaucracy.
ReplyDeleteBut if they try that, libertarians can reach out to the middle and lower black classes and show them how their reparation's money is being ripped off from them by the black (and general) ruling class.
DeleteIt could be one of the most important openings for libertarians in a very long time.
When they redistribute wealth the socialist way, we recapture it the capitalist way. I love it.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I would probably be all-in for a one-time, lump-sum reparations payment if it meant an immediate and permanent end to the entire Welfare State at all levels, in all its forms.
And that is why welfare in the USA is structured the way it is and defended by large corporations. Tax A to give to B who spends at C. Thus C lobbies for it.
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