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  • anon realizes we’ve been played

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  • ah. it seems like you are getting the point 100% while maintaining that we disagree for some reason. :) im 100% with you and ill leave it at that

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  • i have! and above. thank you for asking, best-faith person on the internet. blocking you for another month for my peace lmao

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  • Beautifully expressed translation of this meme, thank you!

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  • hi guyes im disabled and have cancer checks bank account awe sheit well that has been a good life can’t afford this no more😊 ta ta all

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  • hmm i value your perspective—i think you’re just outside the popular narrative and that’s alright.

    no one here believes economists are evil per se. what i and others are expressing with that language is that economists have been employed to justify oppression through malicious misuse of their perceived authority. some have been active bad actors, while many more are just pawns or unwitting mouthpieces for the funneling of wealth into the top 0.1%

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  • first if all rude, downvoted and blocked.

    second of all, the graph on the left doesn’t show time either. or technically it does, both do, because they are enrapped in the rate axis (which is change over time).

    third of all it’s a meme. stupid idiot OP’s opinion is that economics has historically been used as a tool to oppress and that overly simplified expressions of the economy bolster the manufactured consent for that oppression.

    you’re just confused and angry tho so chill.

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  • You miss the point that the soft sciences are being used as an excuse for bad policy. If the soft sciences informed a model for good policy this post wouldn’t exist but instead we have the Laffer curve and trickle down economics.

    No one here is calling for a disillusion of economics. It just needs to be used appropriately instead of as a voodoo magic to transfer wealth upwards.

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  • not sure i agree per se but im willing to hear more?

    maybe you mean to distinguish between economics as a study and economics as a mode of policy

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  • This post is specifically speaking to the cases where they use simplified models to inform policy. Not all economists are stupid and it is good that the field is improving on its weathered past. But the “science” which is taught to justify oppression, that’s still also real propaganda that is being pushed. See i.e. the Laffer curve.

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  • Literally in page one of econ textbooks they will say “a common exception to the rational actor theory is like when people need emergency medical services.” AND THEN they just ignore that GLARING caveat for the rest lf the book. Snake oil.

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  • Nope you are misreading the situation. Both graphs show the inflation rate with unemployment rate, aka https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_curve.

    If the charts were of different data axes it would be a different story but my understanding is this is not a strawman. But I don’t blame your investigation—there’s a lot of money out there trying to convince us that economics is simple actually.

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  • based

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  • well expressed!

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  • i almost believe there has to be like a reckoning in economics, kind of like with psychology and the backlash against freud. far too many of the assumptions are taken for granted as fact despite haveing no data to back them (like the laffer curve, really?). they just get propogated because rich white men said stuff that benefits them.

    like there is definitely some truth to glean in economics. but as it stands, it’s a disservice to call it a science.

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  • i swear! pick up the average econ 101 textbook and it’s just pro-capitalist propaganda. and not like veiled either—freshmen in college are getting told “here’s why minimum wages never work” while at the same time getting told “but corporate bailouts are just natural and nothing we can do to stop them”—and no real analysis, just propaganda.

    all using what is essentially the mathematics version of a rabbit in a hat with hyper-simplified graphs and algorithms that “prove” their point flat earther style.

  • Fruit of the poisonous freak

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  • wise words! there are so many great political voices out there, it’s a weight off one’s chest to ignore the ones who capitalize off it ❤️

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  • that’s great that you support whoever that pavlou guy is getting doxxed :) enjoy the block

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    interesting! anyway…

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    looking at you rule

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    coming back from my extended hiatus just to smirk at yall

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Joever rule

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Like eating food? know what's good for you

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    That sickening feeling of sunk cost fallacy

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    rule

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Just keep this in mind

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    And be proud to do it while you still can

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    where the fuck did they go rule

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Violence is the answer when you can get white people to ignore it

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    silly goose

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    rule

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    He's so brave for this

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    i miss r/toosoon rule

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Millions are going to starve, be killed and oops I forgot to select the dolphin and rainbows JPG

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Permanently Deleted

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    dont threaten me with a good rule

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I giggle every time rule

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    be on the lookout for the giant rake from the sky