Post #2094163
2026-05-06 14:56 UTC
RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116527238498498125
Today's dose of Doctorow's De-programming:
"This is the kind of doctrine you can only fully embrace after sustaining the kind of highly specific neurological injury that is induced by taking an economics degree, an injury that makes you incapable of perceiving or reasoning about power. Under the doctrine of revealed preferences, someone who sells their kidney to make the rent has a revealed preference for only having one kidney"
#capitalism #economics #NeoclassicalEconNonsense
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@marjolica@social.linux.pizza 2026-05-06 16:34
@PttP@mastodon.social "Under the doctrine of revealed preferences, someone who sells their kidney to make the rent has a revealed preference for only having one kidney". No, i think this misrepresent the concept. But clearly they have shown they do a revealed preference to live, with a roof over their head and something to eat, with one kidney than to be unhoused and starving with two. Of course it is capitalism, that means that there is a price attached to selling a kidney and that denies poor people the money to live and that forces them to make these insidious choices and just down the line the money they get for selling that kidney won't last that long and they will die.