Terry says:
July 3 2019 at 1:06 pmMaking And Selling Coca Cola Is A Sin Says The Senior Lecturer
What do you think of his line of argument (putting aside the neoliberal bigger picture) and just focusing on logic?
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Richard Murphy says:
July 3 2019 at 1:15 pm
My response is very simply: nothing Worstall has ever said is worth responding toReply
Nope, not even the fact that soda pop consumption is elastic with respect to price rather than the inelastic he based his argument upon.
Perhaps everything seems inelastic when one’s trousers and collars are consistently too tight for the adipose corpulence constricted therein.
I suspect there’s nothing wrong with Coke which couldn’t be solved by a nice, juicy grant.
He has rather cornered the market in pomposity, though.
adipose corpulence constricted therein.
Is that posh for fat bastard?
My response is very simply: nothing Worstall has ever said is worth responding to
Which, roughly translated, amounts to this: “I can’t win a debate with him, and I can’t bully him, so I’ll pretend he doesn’t exist.”
That’s MISTER Worstall to you, mate!
I must admit, I do sometimes wonder whether he didn’t nick your girlfriend or something, they way you obsess about his pronouncements.