Should Billionaires Exist?

[zurew]

11 hours ago, Ero said:

As I said above, I treat LTV as any other explanatory framework or theory, I never said there isn't value in it. If you choose to LTV/Marxism as your "end stage", that's a perfectly fine choice to make, but we are no longer talking about a 'general theory', rather a 'social metaphysics' which is a different discussion entirely that I am not at all interested in.

Just to clarify  -  this was the debate proposition in that cluster fuck Destiny debate:

"Subjectivist/marginalist value theory can explain everything that the LVT can explain and more"

Jack argued that the LVT generates 11 distinct predictions (and this is supposed to be in the previously linked doc). He challenged Destiny to produce a single subjectivist or marginalist framework that can account for all 11 of those predictions. ( Jack qualified that various subjectivist models may be able to explain some of the predictions individually, but maintained that no single subjectivist model can successfully explain the entire set at once).

So basically the claim isn't just an ideological preference based claim (Jack tried to laser focus only on what is derivable from LVT and tried to distance himself away from other Marxist claims). 

It supposed to be an inference to the best explanation move, where you try to show using various theoretical virtues (like explanatory power, parsimony,unity etc) why hypothesis/framework 1 wins over hypothesis/framework 2.

Now to clarify again: im not in the position to evaluate whether Jack's claim is accurate . Im just giving this clarification so that you can make your own assessment targeting his main claim   (if you think such an analysis would be worthwhile)

Its perfectly fine if you dont care about addressing this specific claim and or if you give more weight to other theoretical virtues and norms.

Edited 3 hours ago by zurew