i lowkey fuck with how there’s no jobs and rent is infinity money and food is infinity money and fun activities are infinity money and every kind of side hustle is completely flooded and everyone’s angry and mean all the time
we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter at all and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
I don’t know enough on my own to suss out whether A.I. is a bubble or not, but the barometer I’m going by is that the people who think it’s a bubble sound sober and concerned and the people who think it’s not sound like manic traveling tent preachers.
A barrel of oil looks cheap because its price excludes cancer wards, acidifying oceans, and lost harvests. The market calls this “efficiency.” But the biosphere keeps the true ledger, and that debt is coming due.
Amazing how successful neoliberalism was at convincing us that the private sector is the real economy and the public sector merely parasitic. The private sector is completely dependent on the state - to create the currency, infrastructure, legal framework etc that it relies on.
Democrats know exactly what their voters want. They have the data. The problem is what their voters want, goes directly against with their donors/owners want. So they’re spending millions of dollars on consultants to figure out how to lie to you better.
@tonyhawktruther Cycling through the weapons wheel to pull out my gold plated soil auger and buying a Munsell color chart from the item shop. "WETLAND DELINEATED: +$1,500"