Competition

[vimothy]

I wonder if a lot of left wing positions are hard to simplify into easy narratives in the same way the right can.

Perhaps, but it also reflects a disagreement over whether these are technical questions, or moral ones.

 

[sadmanbarty]

Perhaps, but it also reflects a disagreement over whether these are technical questions, or moral ones.

That's very interesting. Could you explain a bit more?

 

[vimothy]

Arguments about the zero lower bound, for example, are generally grounded in appeals to mathematical models. Solving these models is a purely technical matter. But many people neither understand such models nor accept the validity of them when it comes to organising society and deciding what ends it should be ordered towards; they view these as moral questions.