feckless

wage fund theory for beer consumption

wait this is from the new edition?

the team should hire you man

what's the trap?

only thing worse are the souless careerists who think their professionalism expunges them of complicity

how does one get into this

that one was kind of a joke. but it's worth noting that in order for 17 year old morally different stephen miller to be celebrating american torture, the sitting us pres at the time had to be authorizing the torture.

didn't HW have JFK shot?

do you think either bush, reagan, or nixon had a healthy moral psychology?

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in Yellen's rerun of Weimar, do you defeat the Nazis by...doing austerity to fight inflation? because that demonstrates a principled commitment to liberal norms or something?

feels like a place where schmitt really put his finger on a serious problem: liberalism needs to contain democracy in order to maintain market as a neutral process. seems like an issue

do you think there is anything ironic or contradictory about the fact that the democratic (liberal?) norm we now find ourselves defending is insulating the central bankers (who by setting the interest rate more or less determine the unemployment rate) from democratic control?

do you think ukraine can win in a meaningful way?

hauntingly i now meet many academics who say they use it to do lots of their writing process, proofreading, re-writing, idea boarding, etc. capital's dream, the human has become entirely superfluous

salute man, best of luck!

agreed, most famously:

if you go back to bulwark interview, zohran *begins his answer by centering jewish feelings of safety.* if people come away from this thinking, he is antisemitic, i think their perception is probably motivated. if they are a nonjewish politician and say that on TV, it is basically slander

🤷. if they don't think he's antisemitic, and they don't want to arm israel, what's the problem? this feels like the vaguest kind of allegation of bias. i think the problem is that the specious accusation of antisemitism is mostly motivated by real disagreement over israel.

i think those people are outside the coalition zohran is trying to build and the discussion should center around the disagreement over policy, not specious accusations of antisemitism. i think if you react to what zohran said in the bulwark interview w worries about antisemitism you've lost context

what do you think about people whose offense is constituted by their disagreement with zohran about whether the US should be arming israel as it bombs gaza? i mean that is what this discussion is really about, right? like we're not talking about an intifada if that's not happening, right?

you're too online. you've lost context

bro what are you doing? i'll unfollow now lmao

yes, lots of online right wing influencer social credibility consists of authenticity performed as willingness to display a cruelly selfish version of yourself online

how else do you deal with a housing shortage? do you rent or own?

wonder what this chart would look like if you took Minsky's definition of profit (any cost above technologically determined ones, incl lots of paper pushing)

you absolutely do not need to hand it to corporations on this one man, cmon

why would the price level for video games, an industry that has reaped loads of productivity gains, go up as much as the general price level, which is driven by increases in industries with no productivity gains (housing, healthcare, education)

if you run your study trying to prove ahistorical 'objective' truths about a historical and diachronic economy and localize it to the last 50 years when capital assets have become abundant and so profit levels have been low and find profits are low.... this seems like a really bad way to learn

do you have any theory of a mechanism here or is this just a correlation with a small n? because it defies basic keynesian logic of how an economy works. tax cuts might be an inefficient stimulus but they clearly should increase growth and profits!