Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics?

• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  If it had a definition, it wouldn’t be nonsense, would it?

  “Trickle down economics” is a rhetoric instrument by which people try to convince the public that taxing poor people and fiscally spending in rich people will increase the poor people’s quality of life.

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  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If it had a definition, it wouldn’t be nonsense, would it?

    It would depend on the definition in question. The term in a vacuum is just a collection of words — what those words mean is rather important, imo.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Well, ok, turns out I wrote a definition of the next line.

      It’s a nonsensical economical theory, with no definition on the context of economics.

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      • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        […] no definition on the context of economics.

        Do you mean that, in your opinion, it has definitions in other contexts? If so, what would it be, and what would the contexts be?

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      • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        It’s a nonsensical economical theory, with no definition on the context of economics.

        Hrm, if it has no definition in the context of economics, how could you know argue that, by its definition, it is a nonsensical economic theory? That seems to fail modus ponens.

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