TheDefiantOne
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- May 29, 2021
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You point out that Sowells' about face on Marxism resulted from his speculation on the Puerto Rican economic situation. So he took that as an indication of the ill effects of socialism/Marxism. Problem was, Puerto Rico's economic situation was never based on socialism. I explained all this clearly Thomas Sowell Is Supposed to Be an Economist, Right?Since I never SAID Puerto Rico had a Socialist government I'm not quite sure what your point is! I brought up Puerto Rico because when I had Sowell as a professor one of the things he spoke to was how when he was a young man he believed in Communism. He thought that government could solve problems for people. He started to change his mind on that when he did a study of Puerto Rican sugar cane workers and minimum wage. What he found was the when the government imposed a minimum wage that rather than getting workers more money...it actually got many of them laid off and the government workers running the program didn't seem to care. Rather than making things better for workers...a well meaning program made things much worse.
But in true troll fashion, you don't have the intellectual courage and honesty to admit error...you just lie, deny and repeat.