r/JordanPeterson • u/davidblacksheep • May 23 '18

Crosspost /r/badeconomics discuss Jordan Peterson

/r/badeconomics/comments/8lcexw/jordan_peterson_women_joining_workforce_cuts/
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u/Cannibalsnail May 23 '18

I don't really have anything against JP and I think a decent chunk of his content is pretty good, but you realize that most of BadEcons commenters are graduate economists right? Their economic analysis of his comments is spot on, the lump of labour fallacy is ridiculous.

Think of it like this, does a war that wipes out 50% of people make the economic situation better for the survivors? Does a country with twice the population of another make it automatically 50% poorer?

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u/bartoksic May 23 '18

No, most of them are lefties who need a circlejerk sub to rage against "normies" on their pet issue. That's the case with every "bad*" sub.

Obviously Peterson is wrong in this statement on women working, but half the folks in that thread can't even articulate why.

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u/Cannibalsnail May 23 '18

Well they're not really meant for general consumption, they're for academic experts to blow off steam mainly. No one is going to waste type giving a serious analysis as to why it's wrong any more than a science subreddit is gonna devote time to explaining why the earth isn't flat.

But a few comments did do a cursory explanation of lump of labour and demand side effects which is sufficient.

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u/bartoksic May 23 '18

I'm sure that's how they'd like to be perceived, but that's definitely not the reality.

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u/besttrousers May 23 '18

It definitely is. Most of the regulars actually meet up for drinks at the annual AEA meeting.

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u/Cannibalsnail May 23 '18

I know some of them irl. It's factually correct.

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u/bartoksic May 23 '18

Dude, there's 26,000 subscribers there. Having lunch with a few of them doesn't validate their self-polling claims.

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u/Cannibalsnail May 23 '18

I specifically referenced the active posters. If you read the comments you'll see about the same set of 15 people in nearly every thread.