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.
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.
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.
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?
River Raid for the Atari 2600
Enshrouded and Old School Runescape
My step uncle is one of the most thoughtful and considerate bosses I have ever experienced. It was just him, myself and his best friend Artur doing construction for years after hurricane Sandy. The pay wasn’t amazing for any of us but it was how he treated us and the other couple people that would rotate in that really stayed with me.
It’s the only place I’ve ever been encouraged to take the breaks needed when doing grueling, back breaking labor in the blistering heat and freezing cold. I was also encouraged and told to take the time actually needed to complete a task as long as it was done correctly. I honestly only saw us mess up a bare handful of times in the five years I worked for him.
He bought us lunch every day. Normally at some cool local joint he knew in the area we were working in. And lunch was almost always closer to two hours than one. We pretty much would finish lunch then have poop time because we were all on the same schedule.
My work day “started” at 8am. But that just was when I got to his house and he’d be there reading the paper eating breakfast. I was offered anything at the table, always given coffee when I asked. About thirty minutes after I showed up, I’d be asked to go grab Artur from his little studio apartment out back.
I wasn’t treated this way because I was family. Anyone that worked with us was treated the same way. Like a human being.
Don’t get me wrong. We absolutely busted our asses and did high quality work. And if we had to pour a foundation or something time sensitive, that shit always got done in the time needed.
This is how bosses are supposed to be. Leading from the front lines. Leading by example.
“Walden (/ˈwɔːldən/; first published in 1854 as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon the author’s simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and—to some degree—a manual for self-reliance.[2]”
It’s his “independence” and “self reliance” parts that make him a hypocrite
This doesn’t invalidate everything he says and does.
But it’s really easy to be “independent” when someone else foots the bill for the land you’re living on and you mom does your laundry for you.
Latin. I would have suggested it before you started learning two Romance languages.
The more they print money, the more people buy into that monetarist bullshit while the rich rob us by driving up prices and claiming “inflation”.
The person thinks inflation and pyramid schemes are the same thing. I think your argument is falling on deaf ears.