Comment by simondotau
12 hours ago
The Churchill line is about democracy, but the adapted version is a common variation. It works as a standalone maxim without need of attribution to some famous person.
12 hours ago
The Churchill line is about democracy, but the adapted version is a common variation. It works as a standalone maxim without need of attribution to some famous person.
> the adapted version is a common variation
Got any evidence for that?
NYT (opinion), 2017: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/opinion/dont-quote-them-o...
Forbes, 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/yuwahedrickwong/2019/04/19/econ...
NPR, 2009: https://www.npr.org/2009/10/26/114163098/a-spoonful-of-socia...
LSE Economics Society essay question, 2018: https://www.tutor2u.net/economics/blog/lse-economics-society...
I also clicked through ten pages of Google search results for "capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others", each of which showed the literal quotes in the preview excerpts, at which point I became too bored to continue.
It works insofar as quotes that sound wise but have no kind of evidence backing it up often do.
Such quotes are the worst form of quotes, except for all the other kinds.
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I don't know if you've noticed, but internet discussions collectively can't seem to avoid "no true Scotsman"-ing what counts as capitalism, likewise its alternatives.
I've seen some people on HN criticise the "socialist" healthcare of the nordic countries on the basis of what Stalin was like, and others saying that China as is today is each of communist and capitalist depending on the point the poster wants to make.
No, because I'm not going to get into a debate about whether capitalism is good or not on a memorial post.
Even if I were so inclined, I'm not the one making grand claims about every economic system in the world. You're the one who has to prove your claim.
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