Is It Matty, Or Is It Amanda?

I'm not saying until after you read this gem:

Meanwhile, this is probably just wishful thinking, but is it totally insane to think that with Republicans picking up tons of governor’s mansions and state legislative houses, that conservatives will start to realize that having continued waves of state and local budget crises is not in the national interest?

Now is that prose, or what?

Admit it, you couldn't tell, could you?

A Challenge: Which one of the two wrote this? 

This entire situation is a great demonstration of why the ready assumption that businesspeople are motivated mainly be a rational desire to increase profits is a really dumb one.  But you see that assumption all the time!  You see it with libertarians, who argue that we don’t need regulation because the profit motive makes markets self-correcting, as if they were mindless machines that aren’t influenced by some of the more irrational thinking of actual human beings.  And you see it with liberals, who make the opposite assumption---they believe that business is solely motivated by profit, and that means businesspeople are bound to make harmful choices if that’s how best to make a profit.  The truth is way more complicated.  Yes, profit motive is a big deal, and that sometimes results in good business decisions, as libertarians insist, and it sometimes results in BP spilling unimaginable amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, as liberals insist.  But insisting that businesspeople act mostly out of pure rationality is giving them too much credit.  I think it’s also important to remember how much irrationality impacts business choices.

The winner will win a genuine Barack Obama polished turd signed by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.

 
"Funny, it looked a lot prettier back in 2008!"

Comments

[Eric Blair]

The second one has to be Amanda. Matty doesn't do run-on sentence as well. (or really, as long).

[Randy Rager]

I'm not even going to bother guessing.

Harvard delenda est!

That said, (and I sincerely mean no offense by asking this) don't you have any other interests worth blogging about? Not that bashing Amanduh and Little Matty Yglesias is ever anything but a public service, but must you service the public so often?

[Dennis the Peasant]

Randy-

I'm sure there are other twits out there, but these are my twits. I found them and I'm nuturing them. I'm not the sort of guy who throws away twits like they were so much used Kleenex.

Really. I thought you knew me better than that.

(Plus, neither of them have the sense to STFU.)

(Plus, plus, they make me laugh. It takes a special sort of twit to do that.)

[richard mcenroe]

nothing more reassuring than a heavily armed accountant laughing at random...

[JeffS]

What if Amanda was a clone of Matty? Then both of them could have written it. In a metaphysical sense, that is....

[Janie]

he's so cute ! :) he looks like a frightened kitty !

[alanstorm]

"But insisting that businesspeople act mostly out of pure rationality is giving them too much credit."

I'll grant that not EVERY business decision is rational. People being people, it cant be any other way. The other side of the coin, which these children never even think to look at, is that the inverse is true for the government that they worship - i.e., virtually NO political decision is rational.

BTW, it doesn't matter who wrote which piece. Neither one's thoughts are worth writing down in the first place, save perhaps to serve as a bad example.

[Joe Redfield]

Soros wrote it; one or the other of the kids just retyped it.