I’m not sure most people understand how neoclassical economics is based on “arm chair general” style models largely divorced from reality.
And how horrible an ideology it really is to have had infiltrate every aspect of western life and culture.
The more I look at it, the more I see how a large part of our current societal issues can be laid at the feet of this ideology masked as science.
How dare we want to… checks notes … Eat food and experience some of life before we MAYBE live until we are 70
I’ve seen this and known the end was coming since I was a teenager 25 years ago.
Who care about consumer spending when I’ve been watching the current biosphere die off for my whole adult life?
I’m supposed to save for a future in a society that’s pretty obviously collapsing as the biosphere deteriorates?
I don’t have zero hope for the future but the idea that this current infinite expansion system can continue is obviously wrong.
It’s the same with a lot of us millennial people.
I graduated into a job market still largely crushed by the dotcom bubble bursting, had my entire life and career path destroyed by the GFC, then another destroyed by covid.
Let me just spend a third of my monthly food allowance on food I can make better myself to please the downtown economy god, I guess lmfao.
The American political system has done nothing but ratchet to the right for about a hundred years.
It’s so far right that people think liberals are left wing. That shit is center right lmao
The mindset these people have is the same one that is destroying the ecosystem: they do not care.
The long term is seen as merely a succession of short terms. Numbers going up is seen as proof of prosperity regardless of if those numbers signify actual sustainable growth or not.
https://realprogressives.org/debt-ceilings-for-dummies/
Just gonna drop this here to try and spread some knowledge.
There’s been a documented decline of about 70% in animal populations, the amount of weather and climate related destruction has demonstrably increased, there’s traces of plastic and forever chemicals almost literally all over, Australia was on fire for half a year, wildfires are increasing in frequency in the western US, hurricanes are coming with increasing frequency and intensity from the gulf up the Atlantic.
There’s also the fires that tore across Greece, the tornadoes forming in states in the US that have seemingly never had them before, the massive loss of ice from Arctic and Antarctic areas of the world.
This is just a small smattering of the things I remember from recently.
I’m not saying that next year everything is going to immediately collapse. But I can see the stability of the ecosphere dissolving in front of me and there are quite a few nations that seem like they are leaning towards collapse if history is any judge of things.
You’re welcome. It’s just so plainly obvious when laid out logically. I feel stupid for having not seen it in the previous 30 something years. Spread the word!
I think this is the place to post this so hopefully others can see the truth
https://realprogressives.org/debt-ceilings-for-dummies/
We don’t need to tax the rich to fund shit. We need to tax them to remove their insane power in our political and economic system.
How can our government run out of the money it creates ex nihilo?
The “debt” is just the count of dollars that haven’t been destroyed through taxation.
“Karashta, you don’t want kids? You’d make a great dad.”
I’ve been asked this several times by close friends since my early 20s. My response has always been about what I feel is the irresponsibility of bringing a child I will desperately love into a world that I’ve seen crumbling around me since my teens.
People called me stupid for believing in things like the oncoming ecological and societal collapses, despite me trying to show them what I’d seen and read.
Somehow, “I told you so,” doesn’t, in any way, make me feel better about the situation.
Then you should be fine with people smoking weed since there’s evidence of its use since 10,000 BC. About 7000 years before the creation of beer by the Egyptians
No mention made of sky high insanely record corporate profits. Lmfao.
The more they print money, the more people buy into that monetarist bullshit while the rich rob us by driving up prices and claiming “inflation”.
“Shortage of homes” created by a parasitic class of people and corporations who gobble up all the available homes
The person thinks inflation and pyramid schemes are the same thing. I think your argument is falling on deaf ears.