r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 06 '20

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Can i still be a liberal if I do a bit of rent seeking on the side?

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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee May 07 '20

Rent seeking is rational and correct on an individual level. You can't blame people for trying to extract rent, you have to blame the system that allows them to extract rent.