Homer Simpsons politikermindset, återigen

Johan Norberg inleder Ett annat Sverige är möjligt med en hänvisning till Jonathan Swifts Gullivers resor, där kejsardömena Blefuscu och Lilliput inte kunnat komma överens om vilken sida av äggen den heliga skriften avser med "den lämpliga sidan" - vilket lett till ett krig där över 60 000 personer mist sina liv.

Ett alternativ till krig - utöver då att låta folk knäcka sina ägg som de så önskar - är dock att parterna samsas - alla ska med - vilket skulle lett till att båda sidor tvingades knäcka äggen på sidan, eller i realsamhället exempelvis att alkohol endast tillåts säljas öppnad eller rumstempererad i medvetet servicebefriade butiker med förnedrande åldersgränser och horribla priser.

Ur Simpsonsavsnittet The Seven Beer Snitch, från Springfield! Springfield!:

Lisa: The famous Shelbyville Theater District! Can we see a play?
Bart: Play?! All plays suck, all the time, and always will, and everyone knows it!
Homer: Look, we'll compromise. We'll go see a play that Lisa doesn't want to see.

Några tidigare inlägg om Homers politrukism (Homer har även en egen bloggetikett):
- Homers politikermindset, igen
- Homers politikermindset
- Homer Simpson om jobbskapande

Teori, praktik, humor 15

Teori, från Wikipedia:

Opportunity cost is the cost of any activity measured in terms of the value of the next best alternative forgone (that is not chosen). It is the sacrifice related to the second best choice available to someone, or group, who has picked among several mutually exclusive choices. The opportunity cost is also the "cost" (as a lost benefit) of the forgone products after making a choice.

Praktik, ur Econtalk med Leigh Steinberg:

Guest: There's one more thing: I've always had a different theory about this than most people who represent athletes. I don't think the real battle should be labor versus management for a sport like football or baseball or basketball. The real battle is with the (National Basketball Association) NBA and the (National Hockey League) NHL and Home Box Office and Walt Disney World and every other form of discretionary entertainment spending.
Russ: Youtube.
Guest: So what we're really doing is competing with every other form of entertainment in the world, every other way that people can spend money. So the proper role is to build the brand. So if I'm ever doing an acrimonious individual negotiation that spills into the press, it's going to push fans away from the sport and I'm going to hurt the player and his image. And I'm going to hurt every other part of it. To ever have a long-term acrimonious collective bargaining agreement where time is missed is self-destructive. The reality is that together, I would talk to owners about the fact: we should work together to explode television revenue, to think up new concepts like the NFL Network or Direct TV or Fantasy Sports or how we can use social media and the Internet or massive scoreboards. Our goal is to build a pie large enough that we won't be so worried about incremental dollars. And so that's been my approach. I think of owners, except in the limited case where I'm negotiating, as allies, and we've got to do our job together. Part of it is conceptualizing the role of an agent as being a steward of the sport, as opposed to simply just stacking one more dollar in the short term in bank books.

Humor, angående att besöka Grampa på ålderdomshemmet, ur Gone Abie Gone, från Wikiquote:

Homer: And I don't think you're boring. It's just that in today's multi-channel invironment you have too many choices. Look at Sunday night! There's like eight amazing shows, none of them on Fox.

Några tidigare inlägg på liknande tema:
- Teori praktik humor, Homer Simpson (bloggetiketter)
- Rocky förklarar alternativkostnad
- Alkohol och alternativkostnad

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Teori, som så många gånger tidigare:

Incentives matter more than intentions.

Praktik, Don Boudreaux hos LearnLiberty:

(Direktlänk)

Humor, ur Simpsonsavsnittet The Frying Game, från tv.com:

The new pond attracts a screaming caterpillar. The "screamapillar" as the family finds out is an endangered species and by law they are responsible for its well being. When Homer believes he has killed the insect he tries to hide that fact. The "screamapillar" is okay, but Homer is found guilty of "attempted insecticide" and "aggravated buggery" and is sentenced to 200 hours of community service.

Tidigare på temat: Teori, praktik, humor (bloggetikett)

Homer Simpson och Mitch Hedberg skådade framtiden

Det är inte bara AT&T som lyckades förutspå framtiden väl - Homer Simpson, ur avsnittet Homer to the Max, från SNPP:

Marge: Where'd you meet this Trent Steele? Moe's?
Homer: No way, he's a winner. He has a company that makes computers, or, a computer that makes companies. Anyway, you wouldn't understand.

Mitch Hedberg, från Wikipedia (finns även på Youtube):

I'd like to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real fuckin' big!

Verkligheten:

(Direktlänk)

South Park, Family Guy och Simpsons om olika typer av småstadsaffärer

Ur Gnomes, från South Park Scriptorium:

Mrs. Tweek: These boys are absolutely right. We've been using these poor kids to pull at your heartstrings for our cause, and it's wrong. We're as low and despicable as Rob Reiner. You keep protesting and complaining, but did any of you ever even bother to taste Harbucks coffee? [shot of the town committee. The crowd blinks] Harbucks coffee got to where it is by being the best. Don't you think you should at least try it? [the crowd parts as Postem exits Harbucks with a tray of his coffee, then closes in to get the coffee. Some people taste it]
Townsman: Hey, this is pretty damn good.
Townsman 2: Yeah, it doesn't have that bland, raw, sewage taste that Tweek's coffee has.
Mr. Tweek: [comes over for a taste] Hey. Hey, that is good.
Postem: It's a French roast.
Mr. Tweek: It's subtle and mild. Mild, like that first splash of sun on an April morning. This coffee is coffee the way it should be.

Ur Hell Comes to Quahog, från Family Guy Scripts:

[Peter i Walmartmotsvarigheten Superstore USA:] My God, look at this wonderland of treasures. What would a guy like me have to do to be part of this magical world?

Ur When You Dish Upon a Star, från SNPP:

Homer: Apu, I'm about to purchase some weird and fruity items, and I don't want any guff.  First of all, I'll need the following mushrooms: Portobello ...
Apu: Yes.
Homer: Porcini ...
Apu: Right.
Homer: Chanterelle ...
Apu: Uh, huh.
Homer: ... and Shiitake.
Apu: [cheerily] Okay, we have none of those! What is next?

Homer Simpson förstår sig på pengar, Peter Griffin gör det inte

Det har måhända varit väl mycket Homer-bashing på sistone, så det kan vara dags för ett positivt inlägg - ur Boy Scoutz 'N the Hood, från SNPP:

[Homer searches under the couch for a peanut]
Homer: Hmm...ow, pointy!
Eww, slimy.
Oh, moving!
Ah-ha! [looks, then says remorsefully] Oh, twenty dollars...I wanted a peanut!
Homer's brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how.
Homer's brain: Money can be exchanged for good and services.
Homer: Woohoo!

Någon har dessutom gjort sig besväret att göra en gif-bild av det - från Sad and Useless:

Ovanstående resonemang må kunna anses vara trivialt, men det är helt enkelt oerhört viktigt att förstå att pengars värde ligger i att det är ett praktiskt bytesmedel.

Förstår man det resonemanget så förstår man sedan också automatiskt att exempelvis pengatryckande och omfördelning i grunden saboterar hela pengafenomenet och prismekanismen.

På temat är det istället Peter Griffin som står för statstänkandet, ur Ocean's Three and a Half (egen transkribering):

Quagmire: Joe, what the hell, you working here?
Joe: I have to, Quagmire, the baby's hospital bill drained all our savings, so I have no choice but to take this job. I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Lånehaj: Excuse me, I couldn't help overhearing you got yourself some money issues.
Joe: Ah, yeah, yeah.
Lånehaj: I might be able to help you out.
Joe: Yeah?
Lånehaj: Yeah, how much you need?
Joe: Look, I'm a police officer, I can't afford to get mixed up with a loan shark.
Peter: Hey, you should listen to this guy, Joe. He's flipping a nickle and chewing on a tooth pick.
/.../
Joe: What am I gonna do, guys? I paid the hospital bill but now I need 20 000 dollars to pay the loan shark. I'm right back where I started.
Peter: Well, sounds like we need another loan shark.

Tidigare inlägg på temat: Homer Simpson (bloggetikett)

Homers politikermindset, igen

Ur avsnittet Half-Decent Proposal, från Said What?:

I can't take HIS money... I can't print MY OWN money... I have to work for money, why dont I just lay down and die?

Tidigare inlägg på temat: Homer Simpson (bloggetikett)

Homers politikermindset

Ur avsnittet HOMR, från SNPP - efter att Homer (som fått markant höjd IQ efter att ha plockat bort en krita ur hjärnan) lämnat en genomgripande säkerhetsrapport till motsvarigheten till Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten med följden att kärnkraftverket måste stängas och samtliga anställda får sparken, vilket de uttrycker sitt missnöje med:

Homer: [yelling after the crowd] Wait, you can't hate me. I'm your better! YOUR BET-TER!

Tidigare inlägg på temat: Homer Simpson (bloggetikett)

Ned Flanders om närproducerat och björntjänster

Ur Hurricane Neddy - från SNPP:

Outside, Homer concludes the tour: "So, Flanders, what do you think of the house that love built?" He pats the front door, which falls inside the house, causing the second story to cave in. Finally, the top story collapses, and the house is back to where it started from. "Aw shoot!" is his response, scratching his head to find out what went wrong.

Ned walks away from the demolished "house" and begins to buff his glasses. The right lens falls out, and Ned lets out a groan and puts on his glasses.

Ned: Calm down, Neddly diddily diddily diddily, doodily. They did their best shodaiddily iddily iddily diddily diddily. Gotta be nice, hostidididildilidilly ah HELL diddily ding dong crap!
Can't you morons do anything RIGHT!?
[shocked gasps]
Marge: Ned! We meant well, and everyone here tried their best.
Ned: Well my family and I can't live in good intentions, Marge! Oh, your family's out of control, but we can't blame you, because you have gooooooooood intentions!

(Direktlänk)

Några tidigare inlägg om Simpsons:
- Simpsons om protektionism
- Feltänket kring prisgolv
- Simpsons om fiatvaluta
- Homer Simpson om jobbskapande
- Homer Simpson om statliga ingrepp i ekonomin

Homer Simpson om fractional reserve banking och bailouts

Homer Simpson ur avsnittet D'oh-in' in the Wind, från Wikisimpsons (för övrigt det avsnitt där Homer får reda på att J i hans namn står för Jay, precis som för BJ Penn):

Bart: "Why not just make up a middle name?"
Lisa: "You might as well. You already made up a phony film credit."
Homer: "No! Homer Simpson never lies twice on the same form. He never has and he never will."
Marge: "You lied dozens of times on our mortgage application."
Homer: "Yes, but they [bankerna, uppenbarligen] were all part of a single ball of lies."

Tidigare inlägg på temat:
- Teori, praktik, humor 6
- Lika som bär 25
- Simpsons om protektionism
- Feltänket kring prisgolv
- Simpsons om fiatvaluta
- Homer Simpson om jobbskapande
- Homer Simpson om statliga ingrepp i ekonomin

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Teori, återigen:

Incentives matter more than intentions.

Praktik, från John Stossel:

In Canada and Britain, both with tough gun-control laws, almost half of all burglaries occur when residents are home. But in the United States, where many households contain guns, only 13 percent of burglaries happen when someone is at home.

Humor, ur Simpsons-avsnittet King-Size Homer - från snpp.com:

Homer: D'oh! Hey, where's Charlie? How'd he get out of this?
Carl: Uh, he's at home on disability.
Lenny: Yeah, he got injured on the job and they sent him home with pay.
[scoffs] It's like a lottery that awards stupidity.
Homer: Stupidity, eh?

Homer wanders around, muttering "Must hurt self, must hurt self, must
hurt self..."

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- Teori, praktik, humor 5

- Teori, prakik, humor 4

- Teori, prakik, humor, återigen

- Teori, prakik, humor, igen

- Teori, prakik, humor

Simpsons om protektionism

Tullmurar är ett vanligt begrepp i globaliseringsdebatten. Homer Simpson är dock i vanlig ordning en handlingens man och inför genialiskt helt sonika en perfekt tullmur - från Wikipedia:

However, Homer gets distracted and instead dumps the silo in the lake, re-polluting it. Moments later, a squirrel jumps into the lake and becomes severely mutated. Nearby, Flanders and Bart discover the squirrel during a hike, and the EPA captures it. Russ Cargill, head of the EPA, presents five options to President Schwarzenegger to keep Springfield's pollution contained; he randomly picks the action of enclosing Springfield in a large glass dome.

Springfield slipper alltså omgående allt vad exempelvis konkurrens, prisdumpning och brain drain heter, så vad gör då stadens invånare när de får reda på vem som orsakat inkapslingen? Jo:
Tidigare inlägg om Simpsons och ekonomi:
- Feltänket kring prisgolv
- Simpsons om fiatvaluta
- Homer Simpson om jobbskapande
- Homer Simpson om statliga ingrepp i ekonomin

Tidigare inlägg om närproducerat:
- Närproducerat, en veckolång fältstudie
- Närproducerat i praktiken, igen
- Vurmen för närproducerat
- 100 mile suit
- Närproducerat i praktiken, redux
- Om att blockera solen

(Via The Perfect Substitute)

Homer Simpson om jobbskapande

Homer Simpson har utsetts till den 25:e mest inflytelserika personen de senaste 25 åren, så desto olyckligare att han inte har greppat Bastiats krossade vindruta - ur Bye, Bye, Nerdie, från The Simpsons Archive:

% Homer and Marge watch "Afternoon Yak" for about three
% seconds, and then turn to the local news.

Kent: The safe-baby craze: It's sweeping Springfield thanks to one crusading parent.
Homer: That's me! [gets off the couch, dancing and singing] Safety dance, safety dance, everybody look at your pants!
Kent: But while Homer Simpson has made our babies safe, he's made infant-related businesses cry -- all the way *away* from the bank.

[cut to Kent interviewing a businessman]

How are your baby crutch sales?
Businessman: Uh, terrible, Kent. And cartoon character Band-Aids, forget about it.

[cut to Hibbert, holding up a happy baby]

Hibbert: Look at this baby. Not a scratch on him, and I've got boat payments.

[cut to a factory owner, standing in front of the factory that prints baby get-well cards]

Owner: The dream is over. Shut 'er down, boys!
[a steam whistle blows, and the factory stops. Dozens of newly-unemployed workers trudge out of the plant]

Homer: Dear God, what have I done? [runs out into the street] Babies of Springfield, we need your help! Please -- skin your knees! Put dice up your nose! Let cats sleep on your face!

Lika som bär 16

Från Treehugger:

People are stealing fryer grease to make biofuel. This pizza shop owner has been hit seven times and is installing video cameras. The Times notes that processed fryer oil, which is called yellow grease, is actually not trash. The grease is traded on the booming commodities market.

Simpsons S10E01, Lard of the Dance (sändes första gången 23 augusti 1998):

Homer and Bart arrive at the school during the dance to steal the grease after being told of the large amount in the school kitchen by Bart. Homer sneaks into the kitchen and plants a hose in the fryer to suck it in to the car, but Willie spots them and attempts to stop them, claiming the grease to be his for retirement.

IRL-Simpsons

Homer Simpson om statliga ingrepp i ekonomin

Bloggen Ekonomikommentarer citerar CEPR-ekonomen Dean Baker:

Ekonomin skapar jobb. Det är precis som att solen går upp.

Homer Simpson tolkar (sista 30 sekunderna i filmen):


Uppdatering: Ovanstående klipp borttaget från Youtube, det finns dock här nu, men jag antar att det också tas bort framöver, så från SNPP:

As he walks towards the horizon, the sun moves up. As he steps back, the sun goes down. He likes this, and does it several times in a row until the sun hits the ground and shatters. Homer screams.

Note to self: stop doing anything.