Alas, if only you could wish away the lump of labor fallacy & demand-side channel with preening insults & self-promotion.
Oren Cass
@oren_cass
Sep 24
Inability to tell the difference between cheap labor and innovation is one of the grossest and costliest failures of the Old Right. This @scottlincicome post is doubly foolish because @JDVance articulates the difference better than anyone in politics, and has for years.

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Scott Lincicome
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Sep 24
"Can We Find Literally Any Sign Deportations Are Helping Native-Born Workers?" Spoiler: No. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p…
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How dare he insult @scottlincicome?
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You think like an economist: What substitutes for labor?. He thinks like Carl Schmidt: Who is us and who is them?
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Friedman would suggest spoons as main means of farm labor
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That's no way to talk to a Chief Economist.
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Cass once again reminding everyone that he is not, in fact, an economist.
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In Oren’s world we would have a Government Innovation Inspector going around to every tech company to make sure they were innovating at the proper level. With trained dogs to sniff out any Cheap Labor gumming up the works.
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I honestly haven't thought of Oren Cass in months and now I'm disappointed again.
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And how many of those folks are now suddenly saying “Do you want private businesses to discriminate against women, etc?” They seem to be promoting the same affirmative action and DEI programs they wanted gone. 😂
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Cook him Scott
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If only you could consider your fellow citizens as more than units of labor, and promoting the general welfare as more than just economic wealth.
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You are a victim of the "supply and demand doesn't exist and price isn't a signal in this one specific case" fallacy
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Trade is a technology and expanded trade is innovation.
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tractors existing does not mean our countries should be inundated with 3rd world fraudsters
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Lincivcome once again proving libertarianism is trash.
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He's responding to your question begging strawman, who do you get a pass on bad faith?
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also if Vance was a conservative he wouldn't care. ITS NOT GOVERNMENTS JOB
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Do you think non competes are anti competitive?
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"Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, you should give these workers spoons, not shovels!" ....Milton Friedman
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Innovation…in what? Doing the labor cheaply!
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Imagine back in the day, the guys with literal pitchforks howling ‘We’re not gonna let you lay off American workers’ at the advent of the tractor and combine harvester. It would have been such a different, peaceful country…
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Man oh Man, was at a small town harvest festival this weekend in OR. OSU had a simulation tent where they were you could do remote timber cutting, plow fields, run a combine, etc. My 7 year old grandson cleared half acre of timber in less than an hour. Living in amazing times.
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Alas, this is something you going to lose.
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Luckily the third worlders will kill all the libertarians first.
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We can only hope you and your gang of Readers Digest Hayekian’s fade away even faster than you already are.
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