The person thinks inflation and pyramid schemes are the same thing. I think your argument is falling on deaf ears.
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.
Alan Moore
Saga of the Swamp Thing and Watchmen are two amazing runs of comics he wrote.
Huge fan of his recent-ish novel, Jerusalem.
How dare we want to... checks notes ... Eat food and experience some of life before we MAYBE live until we are 70
Why settle for either option when you can be pan and have it all???
Fuck the US car industry and fuck Tesla.
Just to be fair: Fuck China, too.
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.
Obviously there is more than just this, but Newt Gingrich has a lot to answer for
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/
Literally boots.
Work boots for my jobs doing physical labor. I would spend around or slightly under $100 every year for a new pair because theater, construction and pest control destroyed a pair a year.
Then I bought Redwings for close to $300. They lasted 3 years before the pandemic and likely would continue to last in those types of career for years to come.
I don't.
I've even read philosophical works that go against what I think and feel and spend the entire time arguing with someone who has probably been dead for hundreds of years.
But I enjoy that from time to time to keep my mind sharp.
No point in reading something that doesn't grab you and resonate with you. Life is too short to put myself through that.
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.
I've only blocked a few communities and my feed is not only negativity.
It can be at times when something big drops in the news, but my feed is still flooded with fun memes and interesting articles.
Sounds like, at least partially, it's confirmation bias.
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
Sleep.
I want deep, restful sleep.
For 8-10 hours uninterrupted by anyone or anything.
Navi from Ocarina of Time.
Literally the Clippy of Zelda.
"Hey! Listen!"
How about shut the fuck up you stupid firefly from hell?
Everyone is just playing a role while at work. Humans are more than their function in a business or society.
If you're in the US, I'm pretty sure they can't fire you because of ADHD related causes. They can come up with other reasons, but your neurodivergence is a recognized medical condition.
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.