Stumbled across this quote from Dr Sowell. Sadly it’s pretty relevant.
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Me neither. Makes me happy to see a lot of young ppl discovering him thought YouTube. That’s how I got into him and Milton Friedman
Honest story, I bought two of his books solely because they were discounted. I hated him before even knowing him, because I knew he was a conservative. The programming is strong for anyone who has the misfortune to have grown up in this day and age.
I'm still not a conservative, but it made me realize that social conservatism is intellectually respectable, not blind bigotry and religion. This coinciding with social liberalism going completely off the rails, it sort of did convert me to social conservatism.
I still disagree with a lot of his economic ideas, but even there you cannot argue with the logic. I just make different trade-offs. Where I think Sowell is completely wrong, is in his opposition to anti-trust and his argument that companies will not discriminate because it hurts them - as ironically demonstrated by their discrimination against conservatives.
Good points. I grew up with conservative parents so a bit different experience. But in theory I get his point because discrimination should hurt a company when you discriminate based on politics but a lot of companies don’t seem to care
I guess that's the old 'Jim Crow restaurant in the South' argument in favor of legislation. That it obviously hurts you if you discriminate against blacks, but if all your white patrons leave if you do serve blacks, it will still be in your interests to keep blacks out. So you need the hatchet of government power to break that.
In the long run, it might work out. Companies that keep their SJW employees in check will do better, as they can use conservative talent. But like the famous economist called Milton Keynes by AOC said: in the long run, we're all dead.
My greatest worry is that people will surrender their principles for expediency.
I fear that as well. Also he makes the point that it’s easier to discriminate when you don’t have to pay a cost. So it’s easy for local govt to impose Jim Crow laws. So if a white owner of a hamburger place doesn’t care about race just money he is impacted but the best example would be the Plessy vs Ferguson case. The train wanted integrated trains because they would have to pay for making more cars to accommodate a segregated train.
I love Friedman, I find myself thinking of his "you care more about the motive than you do the result" line a lot these days.
But Sowell has such a wonderful, accessible writing style. If Thomas Sowell had said things liberals wanted to hear, he'd be a household name in the Western world.
It goes to show how much incentive there is for academics to have the 'right' opinions. like that fake Tolkien scholar who praised Amazon's LotR, and immediately gets hired to consult on a LotR video game.
I don’t trust any Tolkien scholar who praises that show. But yea it’s a shame that people like Kendi get much more press than Sowell