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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Federation "Communist" or Socialist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  inhaled very deeply about to talk about activitypub and techrights idealism then noticed this is star trek dot website

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Economics departments are not real bro

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most economics degrees expose people to the toxic neoliberalism I’m joking about in the intial reply though. It’s been weaponized against the third world to horrible effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude you are not going to get better results by looking at further cherry-picked statistics from first world countries. The standard of living in the first world is collapsing because of finance capital and economics as a science there exists to cope about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve studied economics as a discipline too much not to acknowledge its institutional biases. The statement “economics isn’t real bro” is a joke, but it’s a joke about how bad the state of the academy is in promoting neoliberal economics.

  If that weren’t true it wouldn’t be powerful enough to turn Argentina into a fourth world nation. Milei is a product of these academic institutions.

  If you actually went to or taught at a university that eludes these biases like the Braudel fans at Binghampton, you wouldn’t be scolding me for making a joke about how stupid most economics degrees render people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about Keynesian liberals or something? I do like to read Adam Tooze to see him close in on an interesting point only to veer wildly. Foreign Policy in general has some interesting writers if you want to mine the most advanced liberal cope.

  The model of economics I’m describing is the one which has been most heavily promoted by the west, neoliberalism, it has been used to dissolve the social welfare state which was set up to compete with the socialist bloc since defeating its chief rival and counterbalance in the USSR.

  I am aware of plenty of different non-Marxist models of economics and none of them are great because they treat various sectors of production wrong. China and Vietnam have their shit all figured out that’s why finance capital and food aid can’t decimate their agricultural production and then extort them into unfavorable IMF deals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kind of joking, if you want legit economics check out Mike Hudson and other MMT authors or preferably become a communist. Mainstream economists live to justify rent seeking by the ruling class. They don’t distinguish between production and rents and debts etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s cool dude, except you worship it like a religion. Did you know your GDP numbers count rents and debts the same as production?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean mainstream economics is a farce. MMT at least approaches sanity. Yeah you need Marxism-Leninism but there aren’t many of those economists in Western academia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flowchart for STEM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Economics is not real bro

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nature of Nature⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  but he made an epic science quip!!!