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well america can fight a million wars, as long as he is sipping lattes blaming the guys in the trenches stabbing him in the back behind a screen in whitest suburbia
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:the us wouldn't do that on their own behalf The market has determined that the US already has the optimal number of tanks. Who are you to question the wisdom of markets?
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Nix Panicus posted:The market has determined that the US already has the optimal number of tanks. Who are you to question the wisdom of markets? I am slowly becoming the joker because of this web module I have to do this week          But imagine it's a tank, and the big assignment is "war with Russia"
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What I learned is that I can charge more for tanks if I wait until all the other tank machines close for the night.
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but what if.... we charged a premium for tanks and then didn't bother to supply them? it's pure profit!
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Interesting! You can be tormented into paying more.
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:I am slowly becoming the joker because of this web module I have to do this week It's like that joke of walking past a business class and seeing the professor write "Profits=income-costs" on the whiteboard and all the students diligently taking notes.
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:I am slowly becoming the joker because of this web module I have to do this week It's kind of funny to come up with a mathematical model of economic activity by massively simplifying human behavior, and then quiz people's "understanding of economics" by how they say their behavior would match their model. And they call Marxists unscientific!
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:I am slowly becoming the joker because of this web module I have to do this week are you... taking an Econ 99 final?
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Why does the USS Carney have a Norse flag https://twitter.com/CENTCOM/status/1789698310342636002?t=co4gmuJyDvleeUYo1GMwog&s=19
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CN CREW-VESSEL posted:I am slowly becoming the joker because of this web module I have to do this week I will pay 1E10 dollars for a cup of coffee.
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sum posted:It's kind of funny to come up with a mathematical model of economic activity by massively simplifying human behavior, and then quiz people's "understanding of economics" by how they say their behavior would match their model. And they call Marxists unscientific! I'm losing my mind. Muscle Tracer posted:are you... taking an Econ 99 final? It's considered professional development to gain defence spending expertise, which of course has to be quantified in some credential, so I had to take a loving e-module on Econ.
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Atrocious Joe posted:Why does the USS Carney have a Norse flag That's the least rusty navy ship to be seen in this thread like ever
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DickParasite posted:I will pay 1E10 dollars for a cup of coffee. i will pay -999999999999 dollars for a cup of coffee
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Regarde Aduck posted:there's also a point where this just becomes ww 3 and everything that means I'm not sure that western planners remember that they're supposed to be playing a really dumb and brutal game of chicken.
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Bar Crow posted:Specifying that Europe, not NATO, should be fed into the chipper shredder. time for austria, ireland, and switzerland to pay their dues
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there are presumably some left who realize it is all a farce to maintain domestic control and make the number go up. i don't think they have any veto power over the true believers any more, though.
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you stated that you would spend no more than $60,000,000 for a fighter plane. Let’s see if your choice will change under a given scenario. Imagine you are fighting WWIII against an industrial powerhouse that is producing more fifth generation fighter jets per month than you have in the last three years. The only company making jets that you can buy is Lockheed Martin, but they are selling them for $109,000,000 per unit. You need more planes to survive the coming battle. How much are you willing to spend on a fighter jet?
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Gripweed posted:It's like that joke of walking past a business class and seeing the professor write "Profits=income-costs" on the whiteboard and all the students diligently taking notes. lmao yeah it's precisely this
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Muscle Tracer posted:are you... taking an Econ 99 final? Higher level econ doesnt get any better, it just adds a lot of graphs, pseudo scientific 'formulas', and linear regressions to take twenty pages to come to equally facile conclusions. Liberal economics settles for wearing the clothing of physics, but it desperately wants to be mathematics and free itself entirely from the anchors of observation and experimentation
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poisonpill posted:you stated that you would spend no more than $60,000,000 for a fighter plane. You answered yes, even though $116,000,000 per unit is quite a lot more than $60,000,000. Think about what might have changed you purchasing decision. Interesting, under the right circumstances it appears you'd be willing to pay more for for a fifth generation fighter jet than you previously stated. What you're willing to pay now is $134,000,000 per unit. You have now explored cost benefit and understand that your decisions may change if circumstances change, hence your willingness to pay $148,000,000 per unit. How much are you willing to spend on a submarine?
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poisonpill posted:you stated that you would spend no more than $60,000,000 for a fighter plane. I cut out the middleman by paying my enemies to lose. Promotion time baby!
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Car Hater posted:I cut out the middleman by paying my enemies to lose. Promotion time baby! Ah yes, the ancient Chinese strategy of bribing enemy generals to surrender and then massacring their armies.
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Nix Panicus posted:Higher level econ doesnt get any better, it just adds a lot of graphs, pseudo scientific 'formulas', and linear regressions to take twenty pages to come to equally facile conclusions. Liberal economics settles for wearing the clothing of physics, but it desperately wants to be mathematics and free itself entirely from the anchors of observation and experimentation say what you will about econ, but my econ 101 professor accidentally turned young me into a communist by introducing me to the concept of marginal utility. he didn't come to the same conclusions that i did!
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Yeah, marginal utility being a perfect justification to confiscate excessive wealth to benefit society while causing very little real harm is not an argument econ professors like to hear, so the following units are always about 'dead weight losses' from government inefficiency and wealth as incentive to create jobs E: my favorite bit was a unit on insurance, where we learned to calculate the 'risk premium' a person was willing to pay based on their 'revealed preferences' for insurance costs compared to the insurers known costs. The idea that huge disparities in information (I can at best guess my future health needs, and I have little to no information on how much treatment costs vs insurers employing vast teams of people to create actuarial tables and negotiate prices in advance) or limited options for insurance might invalidate the 'rationality' of the choice were just never addressed! Every person knows their own risk function, and questioning the validity of that statement questions the principle of individual freedom and right to choose! Nix Panicus has issued a correction as of 04:20 on May 13, 2024 |
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sullat posted:Ah yes, the ancient Chinese strategy of bribing enemy generals to surrender and then massacring their armies. China could probably guarantee no war with the US ever if they started giving cushy high-paying no-work gigs to retired US officers.
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Gripweed posted:China could probably guarantee no war with the US ever if they started giving cushy high-paying no-work gigs to retired US officers. This already happens now and then and the USA is wise to it being a problem, so anyone who takes it up is made an example of. quote:SYDNEY, May 12 (Reuters) - A former U.S. Marine pilot, fighting extradition from Australia on U.S. charges of training Chinese military pilots to land on aircraft carriers, unknowingly worked with a Chinese hacker, his lawyer said.
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a thing about Econ that pushed me very left from where I was, was realizing that the perfect efficient market we’re all supposedly moving towards - economist heaven - is a nightmare. Every single person spends every day choosing between working for just enough to live, or choosing to starve to death. there’s a lot about economics that’s ridiculous, but if you take all of it as an axiom and work with its assumptions, it wants the perfectly efficient market. where everything and everyone has a price, and that price is only infinitesimally higher than the price of saying gently caress it, just kill me. liberal economics spends a lot of time talking about rising tides and all that, but you work through the blueprints and it very explicitly is trying to build the worst possible future.
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Best Friends posted:a thing about Econ that pushed me very left from where I was, was realizing that the perfect efficient market we’re all supposedly moving towards - economist heaven - is a nightmare. Every single person spends every day choosing between working for just enough to live, or choosing to starve to death. there’s a lot about economics that’s ridiculous, but if you take all of it as an axiom and work with its assumptions, it wants the perfectly efficient market. where everything and everyone has a price, and that price is only infinitesimally higher than the price of saying gently caress it, just kill me. liberal economics spends a lot of time talking about rising tides and all that, but you work through the blueprints and it very explicitly is trying to build the worst possible future. the tide is rising and you are lashed to the pier
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can also confirm a standard liberal education in economics converted me into a communist. it's so obviously all bs, so the smallest amount of empathy and you just know it's all justification for an unfair society. history always is a good cure to the standard brainwashing, if you actually do some of your own reading. i find military history is actually better for this because at least until recently, people knew you'd only look good as a winner if you made your opponent look skilled or brave. so there was more of a fair analysis. plus results tend to speak for themselves.
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I’m glad the Canadian army guy has to melt his brain on inane Econ 101 horseshit
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we couldn't mobilize the country to sit on our asses and watch netflix while a hyper infectious disease killed 9/11s worth of citizenry every day but yeah sure we'd all form a star spangled voltron of patriotism to wage total absolute war on multiple fronts while quality of life dropped even faster than it already does Kitfox88 has issued a correction as of 06:20 on May 13, 2024 |
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for a couple weeks right when COVID hit it was hard to get paper towels, at least where I am, and people were losing their poo poo. the ports were all hosed up for months. everything being just-in-time meant things were randomly out of stock and you didn’t know when they’d be back. people legitimately didn’t know how to function under the mildest of deprivation and that was when everyone wanted stuff to start flowing again. the consequences of an actual war with China, hot or trade, would be unfathomable for a lot of people.
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I feel like you would need a New Deal or at least some sort of a Great Society to pull this off, but I don't think we have either of those things
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Clip-On Fedora posted:I feel like you would need a New Deal or at least some sort of a Great Society to pull this off, but I don't think we have either of those things Youd need an industrial base for that
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KomradeX posted:Youd need an industrial base for that I look at modern Western nations and genuinely don't understand how anyone could think they're capable of fighting a conventional war.
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Marines are only 50 minerals, and if you need more you can just build a bunch of barracks with reactors.
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DickParasite posted:I look at modern Western nations and genuinely don't understand how anyone could think they're capable of fighting a conventional war. Lots of propaganda. 10 years ago I thought that while we were seeing the beginning of l the ene of American military dominance we were still decades away from it passing, and well a decade later the US Navy has been defeated by a nation without a blue water navy
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There was a really good UK-focused study on this: https://www.bi.team/publications/the-shrouded-economy/ It points out that, while we expect ordinary people to intelligently choose goods and services, insurance, energy suppliers etc based on selecting the option that provides the best service for the most cost-effective price, most people are incapable of doing this. Even where suppliers aren't deliberately making it difficult to compare their offerings (over-complex products, withholding information etc), most people just don't have the time or the maths and comprehension skills to make these sort of decisions. quote:Across the economy, consumers struggle to tell the difference between good and bad products. Critical information, from price to quality, is either missing, hard to access, or hard to compare. The markets are ‘shrouded’.
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