George Lakoff - No One Got Rich On Their Own

Related blog post: Obama and Warren cribbed "build it" narrative from progressive Berkeley Professor (http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/07/...). Full video here, http://youtu.be/38W3ef3QBnc

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[BB Conklin]

The stock market is private Lakoff

[BB Conklin]

Lakoff is arguing against anarchy not libertarianism. But behind all this faux sophistication is a faculty lounge disdain of business and all those who make more than professors. What this pig really means is "You owe us". Dressed up in a bunch of intellectual clap-trap.

[SmokeRingsPipeDreams]

He's right, ... but it does not require a bloated oppressive unconstitutional govt full of megalomaniacal bureaucratic parasites who steal our money (with threats of violence) and give it away to every foreign nation, mooch and loser who has their hand out. .

[Avidcomp]

it's a big leap to suggest that it has to be from tax payers rather than a free market with mutually consenting trade

[stap0510]

You know when you're conducting bogus science when a professor is more engaged in low politics than pure science.

And more and more highly educated young people ask themselves how come that they can't find a job with their degree. Well, here is the explanation.

[stap0510]

To libertarians?

Come on, you still haven't addressed the issue that in the here-and-now socialism CAN only exist because of other peoples fruits of labor: namely money.

[Rasmus Varnich Blumensaat]

To the libertarians: you're missing the central point. When Margaret Thatcher said that the problem with socialism, is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money, she completely neglected to mention the fact that as a society we're living on the backs of all those who have gone before us. The institutions, infrastructure, technology, and legal systems which other people have worked tirelessly to create in our common past is the sine qua non of the wealth and profit we create today.