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oh yeah, I know I just mean I avoid even thinking about the hypothetical. I know it can’t work for most people to simply leave the US.

I refuse the question. I don’t think about hwo they will handle it. If I have a kid here it will be by accident and I’ll start freaking out about everything that makes the cost of living here so godawful

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This guy seems cool and I will probably reach out to him but this video isn’t very accurate or thorough. It just kind of draws a few parallels between the Strasserites and what the guy admits are “vibe reads” off of MWM. I think it’s concerning that MWM may be clout chasing with ideas lifted from better authors and cultivating an audience of harder reactionaries like Infrared while focusing on their own relatively limited output on their blog and their own jobs.

They do make legitimate criticism of the CPUSA and the far-right but encouraging people to devote more energy to those topics seems like it would be appealing to the feds.

Strongly relate to putting off anything interrupting my audio stream until I’m forced to. Music + books is still the superior option.

Economics departments are not real bro

I don’t even have beef with the original poster I replied to with “mark read” but idk I’m not upset at you for pointing out it was shitposting

Mark read

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.

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.

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.

Can only see posts you’ve made on Lemmy instances. That’s interesting.

If you follow the flowchart and dive into most economics departments you will encounter what I’m talking about.

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. It’s an ideological persuasion that works along with coercion and subterfuge to eliminate capital controls and suppress the masses with starvation and crackdowns, especially in peripheral countries which are starting to establish socialistic policies or nationalize natural resources. Look at Chile for a perfect example of liberal economics in practice.

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.

I get sad when I think about cows

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

Mark read

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?

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.

Chill this reply itself is a shitpost

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Economics is not real bro