What the fuck is this shit? simpin for a socialist?
CUCKED.
What he says about Austrian economics, in particular, is very eggregeous. Austrian Economics is not about people being rational. It simply states that people will tend to purchase goods and make economic decisions that they believe will enrich their lives proportional to the amount they're investing. They do not need to be good at it in order to fit into the Austrian framework. An irrational person will still purchase lottery tickets or scam ebay items because they believe they will enrich their lives, they aren't correct in believing that, but that's not the point. The point is that, from this perspective, you can make other mostly safe assumptions on how the economy of a nation will change based on certain government policies.
It's simply derived from what is essentially rule zero of free market economic reasoning, that being incentives based reasoning. Which, quite frankly, if you reject incentives as a market force, the natural end result of that thinking is Communism. Unironically. Belief in incentives is THE greatest point of (cope) philosophical divergence between the free market and communism.
Communists must reject incentives as a market force, and as a fundamental aspect of human psychology, because the Framework of Communism (and also liberal mixed markets) is precisely aligned against them. Nobody has an incentive at add more to a system than they, themselves will be able to take out. Even the most mentally retarded man on the planet understands this to some capacity. A retard, and a wealthy, educated man alike understand that they both use roads and sewage systems, and so, are both willing to put in 50 bucks to get them built (even though private business could do a better job than the government for less money, but I'm not really trying to go that deep into it) they can both spare 50 bucks, and they both benefit from it roughly equally.
But, if the government seizes 50 bucks for the wealthy man to give to the poor man, of course the poor man wants it. why wouldn't he? That's 50 more dollars to spend on groceries (ebay scams and lottery tickets). Whereas the wealthy man understands that he has no incentive to comply, he could use that money to invest something much more substantial, something that could grow his wealth. And thus, must be coerced to do so by either peer pressure or force.
Except it's even worse, because what's the government's incentive in all this? Well that's easy. Someone needs to be paid to hand that money over to the retard. So, the retard actually ends up getting 20 dollars from the government, because the government decided to pay itself with the rich man's money.
Now, ask yourself. Does this reasoning track with what you see every day? The poor staying poor and the rich complaining about the government? I'll bet it does. It's all because of incentives.