If he had never been born, how different would the twentieth

Better perhaps? But it's not like he's the sole author of these ideas but he did give face to it.

>>2803874
Better how?

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>>2803852

Sejanus. Partly because he managed to get away with so much, and partly because of the damage he managed to do.

>he tried to climb the ladder and got his entire family wiped out
>his woman got dragged back to her mom's house and starved to death
>his little daughter was to be executed, too, but since it was illegal to kill virgins they raped her publicly first

>His children also were put to death by decree, the girl (whom he had betrothed to the son of Claudius) having been first outraged by the public executioner on the principle that it was unlawful for a virgin to be put to death in the prison.

>>2803880
Similar situation with Marx. It would've emerged anyway without him but maybe with lesser force. Unless Keynes just got some really bad press and he didn't propose things like digging and undigging shit to create "jobs"

>>2803924
>being this much of determinist cuck
People make history, you know. All these ideas might feel normal to us because of them.

>>2803924

>If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with banknotes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coalmines which are then filled up to the surface with town rubbish, and leave it to private enterprise on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again (the right to do so being obtained, of course, by tendering for leases of the note-bearing territory), there need be no more unemployment and, with the help of the repercussions, the real income of the community, and its capital wealth also, would probably become a good deal greater than it actually is. It would, indeed, be more sensible to build houses and the like; but if there are political and practical difficulties in the way of this, the above would be better than nothing.

>>2803999
What if Keynes was just fucking with everybody? He would immediately become my favorite person ever.

>>2803989
>muh special snowflake syndrome
Every thing in the universe has a lower and higher level of organization. Humans are no exception to this rule. You can't explain humanity by looking at mere simple humans much like you can't explain a human by looking at a simple cell.

>>2804074

This implies that the decisions of an individual have never had historical consequences, which is blatantly false.

>>2804227
>im awfully bad at analogies
Much like a single cancerous cell can breed and multiply to generate cancer and determine the fate of a person, so can humans. But even then, saying that a single cell is responsible for your lung cancer when you've been smoking for 50 years, it's stupid. As in any organization level, the results are the sum of a multiplicity of factors that drive the parts to a particular whole.

As I said, trying to explain humanity as a phenomena looking at single humans is exceptionally short sighted and basically an nonscientifical approach.

>>2803924
He didn't.

>>2803899
is this not rand paul cosplaying as a roman?

>>2803924
>propose things like digging and undigging shit to create "jobs"

You've never read Keynes, have you?