Is it really antisemitic if a billionaire does it? /s

trump’s gonna die in office, one way or another

i don’t see him giving up power

like fear of flowing water

i think the verb was concentrate, concentrate them into a sort of city or other temporary housing.

that depends on whether there’s still competence in the grocery market

Grocery value didn’t go up. Real wages went down. We should measure inflation based on cost-of-living.

Groceries don’t really get more expensive, because the methods for producing food don’t really get less efficient over time; if anything, it’s more efficient. So there’s no real reason for them to become more expensive.

Instead, wages declined. I’ve already commented many times that the labor market is a free market, that means it’s regulated by Supply and Demand. I.e., if prices for labor go down, as we can observe, then that can be interpreted such that supply of labor went up (women go to work too, offshoring labor to other countries, immigrants, …) or that demand for labor went down (automation, end of growth, …).

I honestly think that both cases are difficult, where the supply of labor could be a bit reduced by kicking out immigrants and home-shoring labor (and also, to a lesser extent, making it more difficult for women to work), which btw some advisers to trump are seemingly trying to do, but my honest opinion is that it won’t bring wages up to how they were in the 1960s. Demand for labor is shrinking too, due to the end of growth and now AI and other automation techniques. I guess we’ll have to face that.

edit: just to offer an optimistic outlook, i think that consumerism and therefore demand for consumer products could be stimulated by simply giving handouts to people. most people will spend most of the handouts immediately, and that stimulates consumerism. and that in turn stimulates the economy.

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is the defenestration supposed to be a metaphor for something? i.e., they took too many risks and “leaned out the window too far and fell over” or sth 🤔

tax the rich! (slight /s)

what i’m wondering is:

who exactly wanted this war? i.e., i guess it was not a single-person decision. probably a number of oligarchs are behind it because they think they can profit from either the conflict or the outcome of it.

everybody knows that wars are hella expensive. i guess most wars are decided by economic factors, i.e. who can stay solvent longer. what did the oligarchs think would happen to their wealth due to the war?

I suspect that’s where evolution comes in, as it is a strong driving force that’s pushing us in a direction continuously, so in that sense we evolved a sense of happiness or sadness.

hahah that last part :)

I guess the best thing to do would be to publish your experiences to other people. You’re in this now, but you can prevent others from making the same choices if you inform them about what it entails. That will make you feel better because you’re contributing sth to the world. :)

Israel does not have a future after this. They’re removing their own credibility, and the world knows it. They’re nothing but a rogue state at this point, waiting to be put to sleep like a rabid dog.

Like a dying star undergoing supernova. A rampant destruction at the end.

no they were spot on. it just takes a while for the change to take effect in the outside world.

actually yes, figuratively is the word that i should have used.

The article is well-written. I wonder how many employees will still be needed in 10+ years from now.

In case you haven’t heard about it, the labor market is regulated by supply and demand. That means, if there’s less demand, but supply stays equal, wages decline. That’s what people experience for the last decades. If this trend continues, demand for human labor might become very weak. That’s why people for one can no longer rely only on the incomes through the labor (wages), but need good safety nets (Universal Basic Income, UBI).

And also, demand for labor is another way of saying “how much are humans needed to perform tasks”. What if humans aren’t needed? Will people be ok with that?

You don’t need much of the things they market to you.

Today i learned i don’t need food …

exactly this. i suspect that in any parallel universe with god, there comes a time of enormous stress right before the eternal paradise that awaits behind it. that is because we have to be waken up, and that can only be done through a rough time.

so, in a certain sense, the current circumstances of long work hours aren’t so much avoidable as it is an unavoidable part of history that we have to go through. As such, “we” are the consciousness that carries us through these difficult times.

be glad you weren’t born on a desolate island surrounded only by sharks and inhabited only by poisonous food

point is, don’t compare yourself to the worst alternative. labor hours spiked around 1800-1900, but were significantly lower before and after that.

feminism: now women can get exploited too