@Svetski : "the past was in many ways superior to the present. Sure, we have toilets, running water, refrigerators and airplanes; but we’re also fatter, dumber, sicker, lonelier, weaker and, some might argue, more slavish and obedient than we’ve ever been."
https://remnantchronicles.substack.com/p/i-took-all-the-pills
My "morning" coffee is better than yours
(_"morning"_ because it's 12.30 -- shitty sun too lazy to get over horizon)
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#nature #villagelife #mountains #sunrise #coffeechain #plebs #coffee
This is pretty alright.
Yes, Stiglitz not exactly an impressive economist and this reeks of lefty envy politics etc, but this Georgist idea isn't crap.
Also... it's not *land* going up, dufus. It's the MONEY GOING DOWN
#nostr #philosophizing #econstr
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pretty sick in perspective.
Enjoy the ride, plebs. And to those who spent it on fucking toilet paper and netflix subscription, I have nothing but pity for yah
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THESE are the sorts of reflections that America's left/progressives need right now.
"I have to say that I now doubt the practical effectiveness of some of the policies I embraced in previous years. Others still seem like good ideas, but I’ve been dismayed at their botched implementation where they were tried." -- Noah Smith
"In 2012 or 2019, progressivism felt like it had forward momentum; now it feels adrift."
Noah concludes that the typical progressive causes are "dead in the water" or stuck amid an America public that no longer cherishes them. He's happy to wait that out, hoping (in vain?) for a change next decade or so.
The other take-away imperative there would be to ask the question: Maybe--just maybe--I got these goals, values, ends, and beliefs _wrong_?
Pssst @TPBPod@trey@jyn_urso etc
https://m.primal.net/LwuF.pnghttps://www.noahpinion.blog/p/what-remains-of-the-progressive-project
"...end in a worker revolution where the proletariat owns the means of production"
jezus, why would anybody want that? Literally the worst possible outcome for humanity or workers themselves.
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