• heartSagan5@lemmy.zip
      3·
      16 hours ago

      *downwards. They’re shitty people, let’s stop glorifying them, which is supported by “trickle-down economics” that went right into their hands so to them, it worked.

  • nonentity@sh.itjust.works
    41·
    22 hours ago

    Economics, as an intellectual discipline, is closer to theology than physics. Its power is proportional to the belief it commands.

    Finance is an arbitrary subset of mathematics, cherry picked by the owning class, protected from scrutiny, and applied as their supporting mythology.

    It’s entirely imaginary, which means alternatives are only ever a conjuring away. We did it after the Enlightenment, we can do it again.

  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    20 hours ago

    Isnt china mostly destroying the biosphere and failing to meet basic needs? Rural china is still cooked and people in the city are working 80hr weeks living in a tiny box.

    The western world meets the basic needs of 99+% of the population and has a lot more environmental protection.

    • Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      16 hours ago

      I’d argue the USA and China are both Auth Cap, but coming from different directions. We need Stakeholder Socialism that focuses on aligning ownership and control of the economic firms into the hands of those directly impacted by their ecological and economic impacts. A coöp commonwealth is a good example.

    • Sparky@lemmy.today
      1·
      19 hours ago

      “there is no world police”, said Chinese Communist Political Party, the ruling political party dictatorship of China

  • cloudshouter@lemmy.zip
    5·
    1 day ago

    Every one driving the train has a little goblin inside, jumping up and down on the table shreeking “I WANT MORE MONEY!!!”

  • likebudda@reddthat.com
    25·
    2 days ago

    I work at a DMV call center. People call me with vehicle registration or driver’s license problems and I help them out. AI is supposed to replace me so the state bought an AI voice recognition system. It can transcribe calls but cannot do anything with the information so a new part of my job is responding to what the AI interprets and then use AI canned responses to reply to the caller via email so I can train the AI.

    • kestrel7_7@lemmy.world
      13·
      1 day ago

      Fascinating. I recently had to replace an expired license. They said I could renew it online, but that didn’t work. They said I could make an appointment online, but that didn’t work either. I called in and couldn’t get in touch with anyone real. So I finally just went to the DMV and got my license renewed in person. Mentioned all this stuff to the guy behind the counter and he’s like “yeah… they’re having a lot of problems with the computer systems…” and now after reading your comment I’m like. Oh duh. Of course. They’re using AI. No wonder none of this shit works!

  • Zensate@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 days ago

    Don’t you know? The world is just one big resort for the Epstein class and we are the staff

    • Thor_Whale@lemmus.orgEnglish
      42·
      1 day ago

      There’s the Hunter and then the hunted. The predator and the prey. Most people in the world are prey. You throw out one cycle of predator and then the prey takes over they eventually become the predator. I think it’s a something fundamentally embedded in the life cycle of creatures. I don’t like being prey but I’m not interested in being a predator. So now what?

      • ElDuderino@lemmus.orgEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        Many adult prey animals have developed formidable defenses against predators: the horse a powerful kick, the bull its horns, the possum its acting. So I guess your options are either play dead or learn to shoot.