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.

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. I’m not familiar enough with auspol but I’d imagine the trend holds.

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.

So many double negatives

I mean there’s one and I thought it pretty straightforward but alright.

You can’t build a non absolute junk e bike for 1k with the tarrifs. You likely couldn’t really do it even with just inflation. There was a specific window that this was maybe possible and nobody built the industry partners with contracts to actually exploit it, just figured offering the money would get it to happen. Welp.

Demand side policy alone is always just either a failure or creates perverse incentives. See similar outcomes for tax breaks to encourage say solar panel installation to create green new jobs. Great, you’re paying for installers and still have no domestic production industry

Few since it’s about the UK, I’d imagine.

Human pattern recognition making the insane machine seem like it’s making sense. Astrology but with venture capital backing. I like it.

Income inequality rising is a feature not a bug. Now let’s lower them interest rates to bouy asset prices while wages stagnate against inflation so we can maintain employment by making employees cheaper. We’re cooking with gas baby.