For instance, the Canadian government makes the trade-off on where to reduce funding; it can pull tax dollars from hospitals and put it towards something else if it appears that doing so would increase the likelihood of re-election.
But this isn't how money works.
Canada prints its own currency, it doesn't need to pull dollars from one place to fund something else. The government can actually fund everything and just print more dollars to make up the difference. Austerity isn't necessary.
So, why does it happen?
This heuristic can't explain why anything happens, but that's not what it's for? It's for raising the contradictions and forcing us to ask harder questions of systems, like: if a country prints its own currency why would it ever choose austerity?
There's still more work to do to answer that question and this heuristic is useless for doing so, it's really only a basic first step towards building a critique.
In a democracy the majority is in charge of society.
And that's not what we have and it never has been. There was a brief experiment with democracy during Reconstruction before white terror destroyed it, but that's it.
If the purpose of a hospital is to only cure enough patients, the question becomes; "Why is the purpose of a hospital to cure just enough patients?"
You aren't supposed to just use it to argue in a circle. The purpose of a system is what it does, so, why is that the purpose of the system and why do we have that system?
It implies that the system is working as intented, and that's why we need to destroy it to build an entirely different system.
The actual real world function of courts has always been as another arm of the government's authority. In the real world the interpretation of legislation is also part of the creation and execution of legislation. It's a continuum, that's always been how it works.
Courts are part of the government, not some divine body that exists outside politics.
Liberals act like the separation of powers isn't just something they made up. Separation of powers isn't real and it never has been and it can't be.
America produced 4,000TWH of electricity a year. This report says “22% of household consumption in 2028”, which if I commit the faux pass of mixing data it gets me 7% of US power consumption.
7% is a fucking lot though?? That's an immense amount of power going towards slop instead of making our lives better or growing the economy or actually being productive.
It's like we just decided to start burning our limited reserves of natural gas for fun.
I think heart problems could actually make it possible to hold your breath until you die. You wouldn't suffocate, but the stress on the heart would still kill you.
A drinker and a smoker? Probably stressed their heart too much.
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But this isn't how money works.
Canada prints its own currency, it doesn't need to pull dollars from one place to fund something else. The government can actually fund everything and just print more dollars to make up the difference. Austerity isn't necessary.
So, why does it happen?
This heuristic can't explain why anything happens, but that's not what it's for? It's for raising the contradictions and forcing us to ask harder questions of systems, like: if a country prints its own currency why would it ever choose austerity?
There's still more work to do to answer that question and this heuristic is useless for doing so, it's really only a basic first step towards building a critique.
I still think it's extremely useful.