I’m an economist (I have a degree and everything. It’s in underwater basket weaving but it’s still a degree) and I say this
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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Seriously, we have multiple economists saying the only way out of this fine mess (and to save the world) is to massively redistribute the wealth at the top to the rest of the population.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
To be fair, when I took Economics 101: Macroeconomics in 1985, there was a big point about how important it was to maintain a fairly even wealth distribution, with a discussion of how it is a very bad thing™ for all the wealth to consolidate at the top. (In the meantime, Reagan was gutting all the policies that were used to keep wealth distributed and preserve a strong middle class.) So this is something that anyone who took a basic college course should know.
In time, I got confused that presidents and legislators kept pushing supply side (trickle-down) economics and kept passing laws that allowed the upper class to keep more of their money, while leaving the lower and middle classes to languish, when I was certain these officials were educated (or had experts who were) and should know better. Then I worked out that they are just captured and corrupt AF.
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Based pinãta economics pilled
marcos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This and anti-cyclical spending avoiding depressions are the only two real¹ predictions from the guy that basically invented macroeconomics.
No politician cares about either of them.
1 - Meaning about things people actually need, not money.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 day ago
which dude who invented marco? because we have like three real schools of marco and then the austrians sitting around with they thumbs up they butts
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
We need another FDR and A new deal 2.0 at this point
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 day ago
Money (power) corrupts and people with lots of money rarely want to part with it. Also, money protects money, so the rich often deal in the shadows to protect themselves from us.
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah, as someone studying economics, I agree
Having a small group of people hoarding the money is bad actually
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Yeah, as someone studying economics, I agree
Having a small group of people hoarding the money is bad actually