It's so fucking disgusting the way economists weaponize certain parts of language in order to make a good thing look bad.
Of course deflation over a very long period of time is very bad. It's one of the reasons that cryptocurrencies are so crazy.
But obviously, if the price of food went down to the price it was before inflation, that's not a bad thing. That just means you can fucking afford shit again.
This one boiled my blood. I'll tell you what, once you become class conscious, it's really hard to fucking ignore that every economist is getting you to work against your own best interests.
Do you read Chinese? Or use browser translators? Its pretty slow, but possible, to navigate Baidu and other sites that way, but any tips would be helpful!
Holy shit this is amazing. I havent had time to do deep research like this but I want too, do you mind sharing your sources/strategy for finding info? Im in the USA so it feels impossible to use search engines to find these things, even though I use alternative engines to Google. Im a software Dev so I don't mind getting my hands dirty with custom software and such.
Jesus christ, that chinese bourgeoisie is literally planning on emigrating to America because his children in China would have to... Play fair and equal to the other children in school, and he couldnt just pay for themthem to win... What a fucking asshole.
This one was hard for me to shake as well. It was common double-think to believe that most government institutions were corrupt, except for the ones run by Democrats. The dems were fine. The more dems the better. Blah, blah, blah.
And at some points in time I would see CNN or NPR say some stupid shit that was easily falsified. And I would "Give them a pass." It was weird because I was even conscious of it, but my attitude was on the lines of "well, there isn't anything better out there."
I am not the original commenter, but this comment is two hours old, so I figured I'd at least respond with what I use.
The kagi summarizer, which has both a very short paragraph description of a video or website, and a more detailed "key moments" breakdown that is in list form.
The kagi summarizer just takes a URL and it will summarize whatever it's pointing to. A video, a PDF, a blog post, whatever. Although Kagi does have a context window, it's quite large. I've never seen it miss major details.
It has a free version, although you only get so many summaries per month. The paid version isn't super expensive and you get unlimited summaries.
That five-minute section breakdown looks like it might be done by a person? I've never seen an AI do anything like that.
I suppose technically it does come out of thin air, according to modern monetary theory. And yeah, those congress people would definitely getting a bunch of it back because they own tons of stock those companies that benefit from the aid packages.
They always print money for military spending (Of course, the term "foreign aid" sounds better, but that's a load of shit). But they couldn't even fathom printing a dollar for anybody's college tuition. Not to mention college used to be free (or extremely cheap) in the U$A. But it's been a long time since that was true.
Totally random and unrelated, but since this is an archive post, I'm gonna ask, does anybody else go into an infinite loop trying to prove you're not a robot?
Isn't Israel just a cool, fun democracy, guys? It's not "authoritarian" or anything. They certainly aren't trying to stifle the truth or spread propaganda or anything like that.
A "niche" market in China has more output than entire nations.
God damn I never thought about it that way. Like... 5% of 1.4 billion is 75 million... UK has around 70 million people... that's fucking incredible. China can completely flood markets by just existing. I know not every Chinese citizen lives in their big cities and drives cars and whatnot, but yeah, this makes sense.
Nice, reasonable explanation comrade! Just in case anyone didn't know, TheDeprogram has a good wiki page on whataboutism that covers this nicely as well.
But yeah, people will find that we communists do criticize socialist governments, past and present, and do find flaws in China's system. You just have to come to the communist subs and read around, or ask honest questions. But on platforms like this, where obvious lies, biases, and if nothing else, just one-sided reporting is rampant, we need to balance out the rhetoric. Of course capitalist countries (past and previous) have jailed journalists and those that have pushed back against American imperialism. Native Americans, Middle Easterners, Mexico, are just a short list of those that we constantly oppress.
China keeps making the news because western media keeps putting them in the news, even if it is for things that the USA or western Europe is also currently doing (You don't think the USA and Europe don't ban websites, do you? Have they ever forcefully sterilized people? Yes. Have they ever taken journalists prisoners... obviously yes... Oppressed religions? Duh.... The list goes on and on). Calling out these non-western nations for doing these things is simply adding fuel to the fire to create a monolithic opinion that the USA or Europe is the best place on earth.
If you are on Elysium, things looks pretty great, and you can look down upon the others and judge them easily, while extracting their resources and causing their struggles in the first place. Being taken out of your bubble feels really uncomfortable, but it's the first step in learning.
I like how the only stat they throw, as you said, is basically a made up problem, but the rest of the article is just a clear attack piece on kids that "don't want to work". Even if you think they are being lazy, cherry picking like this can go either way. It's anecdotal, but how many articles talk about how lazy kids are (Only every generation for the last 100+ years).
And in the 3ns, isn't it a good thing kids don't work? They can get an education, spend time with family, you know, live life while they are young. This isn't necessarily a bad thing.
It's so fucking disgusting the way economists weaponize certain parts of language in order to make a good thing look bad.
Of course deflation over a very long period of time is very bad. It's one of the reasons that cryptocurrencies are so crazy.
But obviously, if the price of food went down to the price it was before inflation, that's not a bad thing. That just means you can fucking afford shit again.
This one boiled my blood. I'll tell you what, once you become class conscious, it's really hard to fucking ignore that every economist is getting you to work against your own best interests.