wonderingwanderer
@wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
Wherever I wander I wonder whether I’ll ever find a place to call home…
- Comment on I stil don't know why they thought it was ok to be this on saturday morning cartoons for young kids to watch back on the day. Ren and Stimpy 6 days ago:
The younger generations simply aren’t going to understand the concept that there were specific times when your shows came on, and if you didn’t stop everything and turn it on immediately you might miss the first ten minutes.
Oh, and if you missed an episode? Tough, it might be a year or more before the next rerun…
- Comment on Thatched-roofed cottages! 6 days ago:
What a country!
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 weeks ago:
Adam Smith was actually far more progressive than the neoliberal/capitalist propaganda like to portray him as. They basically cherry-pick his work and present it out of context to support arguments that are actually contrary to many of the points he was making…
When I said “classical economic theory” I meant more like “conventional economic theory,” so encompassing the absurdities you mentioned here.
Like, they’ll say “Economies naturally cycle through periods of growth and degrowth” to justify periods of inflation, but then when those periods of inflation are artificially extended to further enrich the shareholders (and artificially inflated, even!), they’ll conveniently ignore the whole “periods of degrowth” side of the coin, and if anything even remotely has a chance of causing deflation, it’s denounced as an anathema because “it would cause a recession!”
Corporations benefit from economies that harm consumers. Corporations should never be given control over economic policies. However, neoliberal economic policies are basically designed to help the corporations while hurting consumers. And it’s all founded upon conventional economic theories.
That’s how you end up with a Federal Reserve that says things like “Unemployment is a good thing, because if everyone has too much money to spend on things, it could cause inflation,” yet never addresses the standard business practice of increasing prices while cutting costs all to make “number go up” so that the shareholder value increases each quarter and the C-suite can get bigger bonuses…
They say things like “We have to raise prices to keep up with inflation,” but no, that’s literally just contributing to artificial inflation, which is apparent when you look at their profit margins and how they’ve increased since 2020 when everyone started freaking out about inflation…
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I see I’m not the only one who views it that way. It’s always nice to see some people who have professional credibility expressing a similar opinion.
Also, I didn’t know the “Noble Prize in Economics” wasn’t really a Nobel Prize at all (it’s not awarded by the Nobel Foundation! They basically just appropriated the name…)
I always thought it was strange that there was one at all (or seemed to be one), and I didn’t particularly like the credibility it seemed to lend to a field that doesn’t deserve it, but it makes so much more sense now to know it’s just a psyop run by a bank.
- Comment on Aaaaaaaaaa 2 weeks ago:
I see you, bored_boar_onboard
- Comment on Wonder why? 2 weeks ago:
China: Eats lunch
RFK Jr.: “THAT’S MINE!”
- Comment on Aaaaaaaaaa 2 weeks ago:
Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.
- Comment on Aaaaaaaaaa 2 weeks ago:
Plant coriander with your potatoes, it repels a lot of the insects that harm them
- Comment on Takes one to know one 2 weeks ago:
I thought komodo dragons were descended from them?
- Comment on How did Socrates die 2 weeks ago:
He irritated the wealthy elites by saying their notions of piety were essentially bullshit.
- Comment on How did Socrates die 2 weeks ago:
Not sure if you’re shitposting, but that’s basically the opposite of what happened.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 weeks ago:
Ugh, yes, when I was in university I had the audacity to attempt to have original thoughts, and everyone was like “Nuh uh, no one has ever said that anywhere in the source material.”
But it’s like “Someone said A, another person said B, and a third person said C. I’m just putting those together in a new way and telling you ABC.” But they’re like “None of the sources say ABC.” So I’m like “Look at the world around you, and you can clearly see that ABC.” And they’re like “that’s just anecdotal, not a peer-reviewed double-blind study.”
I called it academic gatekeeping. I also said it’s gaslighting ourselves into ignoring reality. They didn’t like either of those things. They seemed to think I was some flat earth anti-vaxxer (I’m not).
Modern academia has become downright anti-intellectual and extremely averse to divergent or non-conforming outlooks. It’s kinda sad.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 weeks ago:
Any time I’ve attempted to argue for alternative economic paradigms (not just alternative economic systems, but actually rethinking the fundamental assumptions and theories by which we study and attempt to understand economic systems and phenomena), lazy thinkers hit me with the “nuh uh, that’s not what [classical economic theory] says! You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
It’s a thoughtless appeal to authority lacking any substance. The word for that is “dogma.”
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Such an eloquent response. Where do you get your comebacks, from xitter?
- Comment on Theories on Theories 2 weeks ago:
I once called economics a pseudoscience in a reddit comment and some libertarian-capitalist type got suuuper butthurt about it.
He said I don’t understand the word pseudoscience. I said, “no I understand it just fine. You don’t understand economics.”
His only response was to call that a “no, you” argument. Dunning-Kruger on full display.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like you spent more energy on this than they did on calling you a tool. And you’re the one getting upset about someone having a different opinion. Your whole comment is projection.
- Comment on ShitpostID: 281172951 2 weeks ago:
That’s disgusting, I’m gonna go vomit. What the fuck.
- Comment on ShitpostID: 281172951 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the knesset shouldn’t have built the torment nexus from basically every anti-semitic propaganda piece of the twentieth century?
- Comment on Lmao 3 weeks ago:
Oh, but you’re forgetting that any attempt to apply basic reasoning or logic when someone is trying to paint something as racist makes you a racist…
- Comment on Octopus nearly strangles a diver 3 weeks ago:
It looks like he was trying to harpoon it. I was rooting for the octopus…
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog in 4 easy installments! 3 weeks ago:
I think they’ll be able to figure it out, at least when combined with everything else they learn about our era.
- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog in 4 easy installments! 3 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I’ll use btrfs
(/s)
The real problem is using hardware that won’t corrupt over time and keeping it out of the elements
- Comment on Enshittiflation 3 weeks ago:
That’s gotta be it. Doctors and lawyers might retire with a net worth of $15M.
Billionaire oligarchs make that much in less than a month.
- Comment on Enshittiflation 3 weeks ago:
Even before 2021, the disparity was already so great it wouldn’t have fit.
- Comment on Enshittiflation 3 weeks ago:
Even in 2019 when I took an intro to ethics class, we read an essay on wealth disparity and even then, the top 1% didn’t even fit in the same graph as everyone else.
- Comment on Dead inside 3 weeks ago:
And yet they still probably get all smug and call people dumbasses when they do the wrong thing…
- Comment on Enshittiflation 3 weeks ago:
That can’t be accurate. The reality is way worse. The top 1% wouldn’t even be visible on the chart at that scale. What am I missing?
- Comment on Once again Reminding you to stop normalizing the grind and Normalize this instead: 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, do the work they’re paying you for. If they’re underpaying you, do the amount of work what they’re paying you is worth. Companies need to learn that workers have leverage/bargaining power.
- Comment on Once again Reminding you to stop normalizing the grind and Normalize this instead: 3 weeks ago:
Except, in capitalism, there is no “actually relax the next day.”
There’s always more work to do. You wake up the next day and do it all again. You make it to the end of the week, and on Saturday you catch up on all the shit around the house you didn’t get to. Sunday you have more shit to do. Monday comes and you go back to work.
A side effect of the alienation of labor is that there’s no incentive to “get it all done and then relax the next day.” No, you get it all done and then it’s onto the next job. If you go above and beyond, you set a new precedent and then your boss expects that from you every day from now on, and if you revert to a “normal” pace then you get reprimanded.
- Comment on Same Shafeeq, same. 3 weeks ago:
Some people are underprivileged and grow up in inner city neighborhoods where they have no access to reliable transportation to wilderness areas or even urban greenspace. It’s not always a “touch grass” situation.
Me, I grew up eating dirt and berries that I was pretty sure weren’t poisonous. I didn’t believe in washing my hands too much because I thought it would weaken my immune system.
The thing is, being familiar with nature didn’t help me navigate social situations. Someone who grew up in a city and has never seen a real forest is probably wayyy better adjusted and socially-integrated than I’ll ever be…