Mine is when someone tried to tell me that superannuation (my countries version of 401K I think) is communism
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Not specifically communism but mine is The Tragedy of the Commons where they explain that in a free market (completely deregulated), profit maximizing situation among competitive, non-communicating economic actors the environment is destroyed and there is complete resource depletion. Not only is it just neoliberal capitalism but the economic actors are all from the guy's imagination and don't behave like any group of humans ever, anywhere, in recorded history. This is somehow a vErY iMPorTaNt EXamPLe of why capitalism is the best system for social organization and managing scarce resources
And it has persisted for like 50 years or something, which is incredible considering the argument falls apart at the first investigation.
My second favorite is the picture of empty grocery shelves in Amerikkka during COVID 2020 that says "this is life under socialism". For some reason there were no pictures of Goldman and AIG guys in 2009 with that caption but that's a different story.
Meme form of this:
Which is also hilarious because even liberal economic institutions have recognized the tragedy of the commons as an eurocentric, victorian fiction, and that most people actually manage common resources much better than private ones. Elinor Ostrom got a Nobel Prize in Economics, even.
Goes along well with "Broken window theory".
You know your argument is good when you have to make up a guy for it.