Yeah, but how is that electricity likely generated?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_pool

So Democrats too right? Considering they’re generally laser focused on the urban professional class and maintaining existing market dynamics with a big push on things like student loan forgiveness that would give zero assistance to workers while largely hanging them out to dry whenever labor disputes pop up. There’s not a party that represents these folks interests so they default to identity politics. Byzantine chariot race politics at least had patronage that meant supporters were getting some sort of gain.

This dudes main contribution that I can see is some sort of attempt to peg happiness to income so we can figure out just how many bread and circuses the proles need for us to keep them content. Like yeah, Trump is operating well outside of the lines by talking about grocery prices going down, but these dudes have been going full ham about how income inequality is actually a healthy thing.

He’s just lying dude. There’s nothing to be that shocked about. I figure a Brookings economist would be familiar with these things. Maybe not since neoliberals seem to have some sort of massive aversion to ever contemplating material reasons for these things.

AI generated or algorithmically generated? Big difference.

Sgt chowdown doesn’t appreciate this post.

Yeah but rascisim is fueled by fake and cuck fantasy.

I don’t care what virtues they’re playing at. The real question is are they doing anything substantive? Also no.

Hasn’t been one in the anglosphere in general for a long time. The NDP is the closest but they’ve given up their working class cred years ago. And labor, well, if Blair didn’t convince you they were a lost cause Starmer will.

You’re braver than I thought.

That just increases the margin for smugglers. Even there the level of debt bondage and lack of payment for mules is terrible. Not much in the way of unions in criminal enterprises.

They vastly overestimate what low level gang members make off of drug slinging. They’re arguing that it’s economical to lead a gang and hold territory. Well yeah.

Soldiers wearing plate carriers to go fight the bears. Guess it makes sense since they’re just as likely to shoot each other.

dismantling the very conditions

Materialism is so rare nowadays in the anglosphere. Bernie does it constantly and paradoxically people use that as a moral virtue, completely sidestepping the damn point. Material conditions transcend the moral.

Then the AI is successful at simulating garbage Microsoft output.

Ugly sweaters and garish lights are their very own counterculture though, and I appreciate their supporters. They steel us against January’s nihilistic void. It takes real courage to be kitsch. We should accept sanguine maniacs as much as our melancholic depressives.

You won’t find me arguing against that. That’s a case of supply side incentives against the wrong thing. That was kind of my point. We’re doing dumb liberal things like rebates for what’s good and actual industrial policy for what destroys us.

Lib. Right. Me arguing that direct industry incentives ala China and India to actually solve your problems from a supply side instead of demand side incentives that just enrich middlemen while solving Jack Shit is totally a neolib position, not a materialist heterodox one.