Of all those who have commented on MMT or contributed to the theory, as I have with regard to tax, it can reasonably be argued that I have the greatest reach.
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He acknowledged that it had received less attention than he would have wished and simultaneously suggested that MMT had, to date, produced only one superstar, whom he suggested to be me.
The ego hath landed and resides in Ely.
Redefining what it means to be a superstar. Paul McCartney must be quaking in his boots
Self-praise is no recommendation
Are we talking about a real person here or one of those convenient people who pop up and ask him about whatever he planned to write about?
In other news the Flat Earth Society with
its many loonies gets a lot more attention than MMT despite it having the super star.
MMT superstar is on par with Flat Earth superstar.
Unless ‘he’ is Warren Mosler, commie dick Murphy is full o’ shit.
In much the same way Tie Domi was a superstar in ice skating, being the one always getting into fights.
Mosler suggested that MMT had, to date, produced only one superstar, whom he suggested to be me. In social media terms, looking at YouTube, blogging, X and other platforms, what Warren had to say is undoubtedly right. Of all those who have commented on MMT or contributed to the theory, as I have with regard to tax, it can reasonably be argued that I have the greatest reach. To my surprise, I have a bigger following than Stephanie Kelton, who is the only rival I might be considered to have in these terms. [Emphasis added]
Rather than some self-deprecation or even just a little insincere modesty – which would be a normal person’s response to such praise – Spud egotistically and pompously preens himself and puffs himself up, putting his vanity and lack of self-awareness on full display. And yet his fans tolerate this behaviour – along with his irascibility and peevishness – because he tells them what they want to hear.
I suspect his audience is selected, since he bans anyone raising anything he doesn’t want to hear.
“Shoot the messenger” results in you very quickly being surrounded by yes men.
Particularly when not giving one bad news doesn’t result in much in the way of real consequences. For instance, if failing to correct him actually resulted in something crashing or blowing up instead of just being wrong on the internet, people would spend more effort on it.
Oh! So the ‘he’ is in fact Mosler.
Murphy is still full of shit.
I struggle to imagine the person that presses send after writing that. Increasingly I wonder if he’s not a Worstall AI creation – your very own Emanuel Goldstein, set up as a sort of Rube Goldberg perpetual content machine now with an added YouTube channel.
This was definitely text produced by A I.
Vain, much?
Sadly he does seem to be the most watched person called R Murphy on YouTube who comments on Modern Monetary Theory. I had hoped he wouldn’t even manage that; Bob needs to up his video game.
https://www.youtube.com/BobMurphyAncap
The ego is on the scale of a medium size planet. It is not going to fit into Ely.
Apologies, it seems comments with links in them now trigger a review, presumably because of the evangelical part-time worker who seems to be squatting here at the moment.
But that must be making work for someone; I shall try to avoid them.
I am just the dogs bollocks too, but I’m far too modest to say more than once!