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Re: Demand destruction (none / 0)

Of course. That's almost always the motivation for handouts to the poor. But that doesn't mean that taking them away is good policy, unless one belongs to a school of thought that believes in motivating the poor to either revolution or docile slavery by making their lives as miserable as humanly possible.

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by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Wed Nov 10th, 2010 at 03:52:42 PM EST
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Re: Demand destruction (4.00 / 2)

JakeS:

a school of thought that believes in motivating the poor to either revolution or docile slavery by making their lives as miserable as humanly possible

You mean like neoliberals who advocate paying people less so thay will work more?

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Nov 11th, 2010 at 04:45:58 AM EST
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JakeS:

that doesn't mean that taking them away is good policy

Neither is leaving them in place. Good policy would be to replace them with something better (less poverty? other energy sources?).

And what share of global fossil fuel subsidies are we talking about here?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Nov 11th, 2010 at 10:05:48 AM EST
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Re: Demand destruction (4.00 / 2)

Electrification for heat and cooking, mass transit for transport. Which also has lots of other good consequences.

But I guess the need to play games on the copper market will make that go even slower.

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by A swedish kind of death on Thu Nov 11th, 2010 at 12:04:53 PM EST
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