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Montasque posted:Chelsea Clinton is also friends with Ivanka Trump. Game recognize game
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an economics thread will be our first step towards being D&D2.0
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anime was right posted:an economics thread will be our first step towards being D&D2.0 make it or i probate u uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
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Baloogan posted:make it why me i have a loose idea of how economics work, but someone more informed than me should probably make it lol
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:
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Lol at the pure naivety of some of the posters in this thread
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FuzzySkinner posted:I think I don't dislike Hillary per say as I more so dislike people who ran her campaign and crafted her entire image into a neoliberal masterpiece. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmIRYvJQeHM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkS9y5t0tR0 comedyblissoption has issued a correction as of 14:51 on Apr 23, 2017 |
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FuzzySkinner posted:Banana Republics, correct? (Sad I only really learned about those via "Drunk History". Our education system needs to really be better). https://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II-Updated/dp/1567512526 you can glance at the table of contents here: https://williamblum.org/books/killing-hope/ Note that there are no signs of this poo poo slowing down post cold war.
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Actually just stop doing war stuffs
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War! Huh! Good God y'all What is it good for? Lots and lots of money!
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Anyway, more relevant to the thread: Ignoring everything else, do you think that Chelsea and the Clinton cult believe she became an Oxford Scholar totally on her own merits and not because she's a child of privilege whose parents run a patronage network? Because I bet they do.
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Most people can do the work involved of these high-prestige jobs or college degrees but to actually get the opportunity you either have to be well-connected or 5x as competent as necessary to make up for it.
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Shear Modulus posted:Most people can do the work involved of these high-prestige jobs or college degrees but to actually get the opportunity you either have to be well-connected or 5x as competent as necessary to make up for it. Have you seen W's college grades? The main thing why the 1%er kids get ahead is that having rich parents opens a huge amount of opportunity through all various types of nepotism whether it's finding the first job, being able to go to a overpriced private magnet school or getting special treatment at the uni due to the parents being big ticket donors.
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etalian posted:Have you seen W's college grades? Bush Jr was like incredibly dumb by any standards.
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Not a Step posted:Also, inflation theoretically benefits debtors because they get to pay back their debt with inflated money. In reality though expected inflation is usually priced into interest rates so debtors don't benefit unless they have fixed rate interest and actual inflation was higher than expected. But if actual inflation exceeds expected inflation it benefits debtors at the expense of creditors. In the late 19th century the American populist movement was basically campaigning for higher inflation precisely because it wiped away debts owed by poor farmers, by allowing coins to be minted from silver AND gold instead of just (bi-metalism) William Jenning Bryan (a forerunner of later left-wing movements in many ways) ran on this, won the democratic nomination three times and almost won the presidency once Typo has issued a correction as of 03:07 on Apr 24, 2017 |
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For all people talk about how the Republicans and Democrats switched positions: this was only true of social/racial issues: the democrats were pretty much always the economic populists before last year (and probably will be again)
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etalian posted:Have you seen W's college grades? I went to Jr. High with a GOP diehard that had moderated significantly when I bumped into him years later. When I asked why, he responded with an anecdote about nepotism. For quick background, he'd gone to a rich man's university and graduated with either an anthropology or archeology degree and $100,000 in debt. The university connections amounted to an opportunity for a year-long unpaid internship at a national museum in, iirc, Portugal. But, he's normal. Couldn't afford to go out of pocket for a year. He told me about someone he graduated with. A perfectly nice fellow but of very average intelligence and who happened to have an uncle that ran a boutique hedge fund. This fellow walked into a do-nothing position that his uncle magicked up, and which paid $250,000/year. I guess that was when he started realizing something was amiss with how the world worked
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Accretionist posted:I went to Jr. High with a GOP diehard that had moderated significantly when I bumped into him years later. When I asked why, he responded with an anecdote about nepotism. 
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Shear Modulus posted:Bush Jr was like incredibly dumb by any standards. We only think he's dumb because school & standardized tests don't take into consideration the unique needs and talents of a fake east coast cowboy boss baby who probably cranked it in a coffin while looking at the skull of a native american at least once.
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FuzzySkinner posted:I always felt there was a lot of similarities towards how the dems ran this past campaign, past couple of years to how Jimmy Carter was acting during the late 70's. gently caress you.
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I left my car idling in line at the gas station for a loving hour and now I'm out of gas!
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Accretionist posted:I went to Jr. High with a GOP diehard that had moderated significantly when I bumped into him years later. When I asked why, he responded with an anecdote about nepotism. I'm glad of it.
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anime was right posted:why me i have a loose idea of how economics work, but someone more informed than me should probably make it lol If this election taught us anything, it's that ignorance is never a disqualifier from being proactive.
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Shear Modulus posted:Bush Jr was like incredibly dumb by any standards. I think political dynasties get more cringe worthy and incompetent with age. It's how you go from Bush senior to the low energy failed Jeb!
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Accretionist posted:For quick background, he'd gone to a rich man's university and graduated with either an anthropology or archeology degree and $100,000 in debt. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inxoRyD9c-8
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This is something I've been thinking about for awhile, that American politics is a lot alike Europe on the eve of The Great War, it's a precarious system built by far smarter people that is falling apart because their successors were far less talented. And we see in American politics today. Christ, Clinton was as paranoid as Nixon but had so much less talent while being half as corrupt.
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KomradeX posted:This is something I've been thinking about for awhile, that American politics is a lot alike Europe on the eve of The Great War, it's a precarious system built by far smarter people that is falling apart because their successors were far less talented. And we see in American politics today. Christ Clinton was as paranoid as Nixon but had so much less talent while being half as corrupt. Edit: misread what you said
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etalian posted:I think political dynasties get more cringe worthy and incompetent with age. the real alpha in the Bush line was Prescott Bush because he almost attempted a fascist coup against FDR
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I think the biggest problem we face is that our system, much like Europe prior to WWI, is working under conditions so far removed from the conditions as they existed when the system was created, that it is becoming increasingly dysfunctional because of an accumulation of small, but increasingly numerous problems that fell outside of what the Founders considered, and which haven't been dealt with. I certainly don't think that we're on the outbreak of war, but I do think that we are heading for some kind of a political reckoning in much the same way that Europe was barrelling towards war. Not sure what that flash point will be, but we've got our yearly potential government shutdown on the horizon and while I don't think this year will be the year it boils over, we're going to the brink every year and at some point, one side or the other is gonna miscalculate and start a real crisis that affects people's day to day lives.
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the government has been affecting minorities' and poor peoples' day to day lives for generations now
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Azathoth posted:I think the biggest problem we face is that our system, much like Europe prior to WWI, is working under conditions so far removed from the conditions as they existed when the system was created, that it is becoming increasingly dysfunctional because of an accumulation of small, but increasingly numerous problems that fell outside of what the Founders considered, and which haven't been dealt with. I think the flash point is probably going to be automation. Like it wouldn't surprise me if in the future we refer to it as "the automation crisis" or "the automation depression."
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Shear Modulus posted:the government has been affecting minorities' and poor peoples' day to day lives for generations now they aren't people enough. gotta be white people that feel the squeeze unfortunately
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Shear Modulus posted:the government has been affecting minorities' and poor peoples' day to day lives for generations now My point, which I will stand by, is that there's been relatively little political cost for the existing gridlock because it hasn't caused a significant negative change in the day to day lives of the voting blocs that each side relies on to get elected, and what change their has been, each side has been able to effectively blame on the other side. It's not a sustainable situation, and, like I said, I think we're heading for a reckoning because of it.
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Peanut President posted:gently caress you. If it helps? I think Jimmy Carter was probably the last decent man to run the country. I think he came in at the wrong time sadly (Imagine him running the country during the 90's or 2000's during times of relative peace) I just think whomever was in charge of crafting the malaise speech was incredibly dumb. (and he did wind up firing people like crazy afterwards).
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I think the flash point is probably going to be automation. Like it wouldn't surprise me if in the future we refer to it as "the automation crisis" or "the automation depression." "Butlerian Jihad"
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Jeb! Repetition posted:I think the flash point is probably going to be automation. Like it wouldn't surprise me if in the future we refer to it as "the automation crisis" or "the automation depression." The way that I look at it, we're in the middle of a seismic economic shift, and have been for a long time, as the U.S. moves away from manual industrial manufacturing and towards service and automation, in much the same way that our country once went through a transition from a rural, agrarian economy to that industrialized manufacturing economy a century (or more) ago. I don't think it's any coincidence that we're seeing a resurgence of the "Progressive" label, which was a somewhat ideologically nebulous movement that largely was about reforming the country and economy in response to the excesses caused by that transition to industrialization. There's a lot of people who have been left behind by the economy, and that we're ripe for a new progressivism to emerge.
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