I agree in principle, but my alienation from nature and real social relations manifests as guilt, which makes me externalize my self hate toward others when I see them enjoying something I feel guilty enjoying
Juice
joined 3 years ago
There are no televised bean awards shows, no bean celebrities, almost no bean merchandise, no bean sequels.
While unfortunate, I now know how I'll answer the question, "what would the world be like under communism?"
If only someone had written a short and interesting critique called Value, Price and Profit that was compiled into a book like 100 years ago, and clearly explains the real causes for inflation, then maybe these economists would have read it and known about this so they wouldn't have to act so fucking shocked when they stumble on it, and give it funny names when it's literally just regular inflation.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1865/value-price-profit/
The commitment to the bit is admirable. I'm choosing to believe it's real.
I was really hoping for a fusion of Lisa Frank + Frankenstein, like rainbows and bright colors and chimeric monsters stitched together from the parts of cute animals
Right. Covid killed over a million people, equivalent to 12-15% of the surplus population (reserve army of labor in Marxist terms.) This created an increase in wages (the media called it "the great resignation".) The fed raised interest rates to get companies to stop hiring, and lots of white collar jobs got let go due to decreased demand for tech/services after covid (blame it on AI.) This stabilized costs in many sectors, but companies didn't decrease their prices to pre-pandemic levels, they kept them where they were or continued to raise them leading to increased profitability.
Read Value, Price and Profit
These are some great tips!
Home-made hummus is the way to go. Food processor is nice but I've used a blender in a pinch. Cheap, and you can make a mountain of it for a few bucks. Tahini is the only semi-pricey ingredient but still the price of like 2 small store bought hummus tubs, and it makes so much
Its easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine Australia
Dude was on a whole other level. In the last 10 years of his life, while often battling illnesses and infections, while reading and researching copiously, he wrote around 30,000 pages of handwritten notes. Avg 3000 pages of notes per year.
Last year I was trying to teach myself to write and, while I did a lot of writing on the computer, I was able to fill a 200 page notebook. I was writing a lot, and maybe got within 1/30th of his output.
Most of what I wrote was crap too.
That's a really nice and genuine thing to say, thank you