Posted on 04/29/2017 7:40:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
They don’t take subtle second order effects into account. They don’t consider subtleties like unknown unknowns and opportunity costs and the finer aspects of reality that can’t even be articulated. They think in static models and ignore feedback effects. They have no appreciation for irony and paradox and are always caught off guard by the witty ways in which reality punishes a lack of wisdom.
The problem is that their ideas are too simple. There is a certain logic to giving the smart, nice people lots of power over everyone else. It basically took Hayek to articulate why that logic is false using extremely subtle arguments dealing with unplanned order and the flow of information and distributed intelligence. Yet even before Hayek it was possible to understand that it was false through an understanding of rights and morality as well as by gut feel and wisdom and intuition. But liberals completely lack that intuition or don’t have it turned on. Sometimes the turning on happens — you see it in Sowell and Horowitz — but most are doomed to stay fully convinced by their bonehead first-order ideas which never work.
Yes.
How are airlines going to justify new airplanes when the current passenger load factor is less than 80 percent? Do you think the public will want to pay even higher airfares just so there are more aircraft flying around with even more empty seats? Not to mention the added airspace congestion and increased workload on ATC. I'm guessing you don't work in the airline industry.
Yes they are. Several reasons:
The need to be ‘cool’ and/or seen as smart. - I’m guessing inner lack of self esteem.
And the capacity for stupid seems to be increasing. I know dem voters who have high intelligence capacity... college educated idiots, professors, etc... they talk a good game, seem to recollect a huge amount of ‘information’ (lib propaganda) but have very little by way of common sense or basic logic.
Then you have the typical blue collar, union guy dem voter. Not book smart or college educated, yet brilliant if you need actual stuff done... ( build your addition, wire your house, dress a deer even), but they don’t think they’re smart. So they join the ‘smart team’ - dimmocrats. And root for that team no matter what, to the death.
They worship their leaders, no matter what scumbags those leaders are.
At least most on the right want to hold OUR elected leaders accountable.
Not “hopelessly irrational”, but “proudly irrational”.
Liberalism today is fueled by the scourge of Postmodernism, which denies logic, reason and truth.
No.
They are mentally ill.
There is a cost curve where more aircraft get less hours and less maintenance per aircraft. If you have fleet of 100 planes flying them all the time or a fleet of 120 planes flying 80% isn’t there a cost savings in mandatory FAA maintenance? I don’t know. The system now is kind of screwy. Every other industry has excess capacity on hand. Look at any restaurant. They usually have many tables open during the week but on Saturday they are full. During the week they climate control and clean the whole thing even though it is really empty most of the week.
No, they are conniving.
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No, they are conniving.
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I hope my saying so does not result in anyone now hating you --- because they already hate me (and I applauded what you'd said, so it must have been wrong, etc.).
Thanks for the compliment.
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