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GreyjoyBastard posted:wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong those adjectives describe 99.98% of all econ programs in the country, whose curricula were designed in ~1978 to beat the commies and crush labor unions once and for all
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evilweasel posted:also econ majors don’t have the faintest clue how to run a business microeconomics folks have a very faint clue, which apparently puts them about a billion miles ahead of elon musk Tibalt posted:My favorite econ thesis are the ones advocating for the abolishment of <clearly obvious thing that exists only to exploit people's need for a necessary good>. same studying economics turned me into a socialist, lol
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my favorite Econ major fact is that the only people who really behave like a Rational Actor are sociopaths, and Econ majors aware they are being observed
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evilweasel posted:my favorite Econ major fact is that the only people who really behave like a Rational Actor are sociopaths, and Econ majors aware they are being observed my first Applied Microeconomics class did a lot of game theory experiments/demonstrations and allow me to say, l m a o
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Dr Christmas posted:Tennessee banned slavery as a punishment, which is cool and good. But will that mean? If you’re in prison you only are put to work voluntarily for money? I don't think anyone knows exactly since it comes down to what Tennessee decides to do. Some other states do run labor programs that are voluntary and pay cents per hour. Those low wages primarily then just go back to the prison in purchases of food and items by the prisoner. It's not slavery but it's also not fair employment. My personal belief is that a theoretical work program that provided real wages that would give someone across to money when they leave prison would do good but that the current system is another ugly part of how modern luxuries are achieved.
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my presumption is that a followup court case would be "no, paying them forty-nine cents per hour doesn't count" but eh, we'll see
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GreyjoyBastard posted:my presumption is that a followup court case would be "no, paying them forty-nine cents per hour doesn't count" but eh, we'll see That it wouldn't count as slavery? Yeah, it's a common practice in multiple states. Prisoner wage averages have actually gone down in the last twenty years.
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Dr Christmas posted:Tennessee banned slavery as a punishment, which is cool and good. But will that mean? If you’re in prison you only are put to work voluntarily for money? It just bans involuntary servitude, nothing more. And "involuntary servitude" just means "being forced to work against their will". In practice, the ban just means that prisoners will have the option to not work. It doesn't require them to be paid or compensated for their work.
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considering there are massive industries now that profit off supplying the phone calls to inmates at a huge markup as well as the fact that all the items in the commisary are marked up to an insane degree the pittance they are paid to do work is terrible and should be considered slavery still. My thinking is that republican legislatures are going to find a way to overturn the will of the people once again on this one. I have a feeling they will do the same with abortion access. Kentucky is already trying to weasel out of what the people want when it pertains to abortion.
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Speaking of econ majors not taking the fall for this, as a MBA holder myself from a good school that isn't a rich kid diploma mill, I also want to chime in here and say that every single one of my professors would have accurately called the demise of Twitter from any one of Elon's actions, let alone all of them combined. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Yawgmoft posted:Speaking of econ majors not taking the fall for this, as a MBA holder myself from a good school that isn't a rich kid diploma mill, I also want to chime in here and say that every single one of my professors would have accurately called the demise of Twitter from any one of Elon's actions, let alone all of them combined. I get that we're all left leaning but can we not probe people for operating under capitalism D&D already tends to be a circle-jerk, this doesn't add anything (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Xand_Man fucked around with this message at 20:17 on Nov 12, 2022 |
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Xand_Man posted:I get that we're all left leaning but can we not probe people for operating under capitalism I agree. The probation should be revoked and the poster given a swirlie instead.
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I got my MBA from the Che Guevara Institute of Leninist Arts and my professors also would have said that Elon isn’t running Twitter well
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MOD CHALLENGE: Poster should video themselves explain to a 4-year-old why MBAs are silly and smelly Thank Christ I am not a mod 
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Mastering business is recommended by Stalin himself https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1931/02/04.htm quote:How is it that wrecking activities assumed such wide dimensions? Who is to blame for this? We are to blame. Had we handled the business of managing production differently, had we started much earlier to learn the technique of the business, to master technique, had we more frequently and efficiently intervened in the management of production, the wreckers would not have succeeded in doing so much damage.
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U.S. intel report says key gulf ally meddled in American politics The United Arab Emirates steered U.S. foreign policy in its favor through a series of legal and illegal exploits, according to an unprecedented U.S. intelligence document quote:U.S. intelligence officials have compiled a classified report detailing extensive efforts to manipulate the American political system by the United Arab Emirates, an influential, oil-rich nation in the Persian Gulf long considered a close and trusted partner. This article is based on multiple different sources commenting on the underlying report; the Post doesn't have access to the document itself. The report is apparently especially damning of UAE’s ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al Otaiba, although it avoids naming him. Part of the underlying goal of the leak and reporting appears to be to increase pressure to close some of the disclosure loopholes UAE has been exploiting.
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Discendo Vox posted:U.S. intel report says key gulf ally meddled in American politics Is there a way we can find out a list of US citizens registered as foreign agents for UAE?
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This is one of the dumber headlines I've seen lately: From Elon Musk to Sam Bankman-Fried, a bad week for market geniuses, but was it their fault? Yes, CNBC. It was their fault for being stupid.
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selec posted:Is there a way we can find out a list of US citizens registered as foreign agents for UAE? Yes. U.S. law requires registration and disclosure of work on behalf of a foreign government. There is a public registry on the DOJ website and you can also request for them to put together specific lists for you, but it usually takes a couple of months and using the website is easier unless you need specific details. Edit: Here's the list of organizations and what country/individual they are an agent for. You can read the documents to see which specific people at the organization are registered agents. Looks like the UAE has 24 different organizations registered as foreign agents that are made up of a bunch of different law firms, lobbying firms, PR firms, and marketing firms. You'd have to go through all the documents to get the specific number of people registered at each organization. https://efile.fara.gov/ords/fara/f?p=181:130::::RP,130:P130_DATERANGE:N Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Nov 13, 2022 |
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GreyjoyBastard posted:wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Yes. U.S. law requires registration and disclosure of work on behalf of a foreign government. Nice, thanks!
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Dems hold the Senate https://twitter.com/beschlossdc/status/1591615833603641344?s=46&t=FKP2rKgOM4ZwkfUmcJPB-Q Waiting on the GA runoff next month but it’s no longer going to decide control
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They still need that seat and this just makes it more likely less people will show up for walker in a runoff that doesn't matter for control of the senate.
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davecrazy posted:Will GA dems still turn out without it being the decision making seat? Depends on how convincing those "We need X amount more seats or else we can't actually do anything we promised despite having a majority!" emails are, I suppose.
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davecrazy posted:Will GA dems still turn out without it being the decision making seat? 'do you want to repeat the joe manchin show for the next 2 years' would that get you to turn out?
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davecrazy posted:Will GA dems still turn out without it being the decision making seat? i mean the counterquestion is also "will republicans turn out for the guy that paid for 30% of abortions in the state of georgia if control of the senate isn't on the line"
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Herstory Begins Now posted:'do you want to repeat the joe manchin show for the next 2 years' That's no very effective framing, given that Sinema exists. I'd still bet on Warlock conjuring a win, though.
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davecrazy posted:Will GA dems still turn out without it being the decision making seat?
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I don't really see what the motivation for Republicans to show up for this would be For the Dems you can at least look to increase your majority
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FlamingLiberal posted:I don't really see what the motivation for Republicans to show up for this would be Yeah, the only reason people were showing up to vote for Walker wasn't because he was an inspiring candidate or because he was going to be a good senator, it was because he was going to make Mitch McConnell Majority Leader again, and that has officially gone kaput. Warnock's voters, conversely, seem like they're fired up to get out again and send him back to DC to be #51.
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B B posted:That's no very effective framing, given that Sinema exists. 51 would be a huge upgrade considering that you’d only have to turn one of them, not both of them at the same time
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nine-gear crow posted:Yeah, the only reason people were showing up to vote for Walker wasn't because he was an inspiring candidate or because he was going to be a good senator, it was because he was going to make Mitch McConnell Majority Leader again, and that has officially gone kaput. Warnock's voters, conversely, seem like they're fired up to get out again and send him back to DC to be #51. And I’d imagine the inevitable onslaught of Trump campaigning around Georgia will only fire up Warnock’s voters more
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haveblue posted:51 would be a huge upgrade considering that you’d only have to turn one of them, not both of them at the same time And Manchin has proven he knows the meaning of the word "Yes" every now and then. A vote for Raphael Warnock is a vote to erase Kyrsten Sinema in everything but physical existence. If I were American and Georgian, I would already be lined up outside the polling place and we've got a loving month left to go yet.
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Also Walker’s a fuckin’ freak and republicans in Georgia are too racist to vote for a black man, which is why the governor won and he didn’t.
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:And I’d imagine the inevitable onslaught of Trump campaigning around Georgia will only fire up Warnock’s voters more Will Trump want to campaign in this situation? It won't help him at all, and he's already mad about how they've performed and blame him.
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Ringo Star Get posted:If Warnock can win, does that invalidate the need to placate Sienema and Manchin?
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