I knew this was dishonest midwit pseud bullshit when the Netflix show that's based on it showed the little girl from Les Mis (2012) and implied that communism and revolution are le heckin good with no real further depth than that. Dropped show, dropped book.
Nobody except the Austrians understands how capital works. It’s not an exaggeration to say that 99.9% of morons graduating with MBAs and other assorted degrees in economics don't know a frick about the economy and especially capital. Most of them think of it as some kind of homogenous blob quantity that perpetuates itself automatically which it most certainly is not. Piketty is just another moron who nonetheless drew the correct logical consequences from neoclassical assumptions
Pretty much every economist other than Marxists understand clearly how capital works. The confusion arises from continuously conflating capital from currency. Currency is sometimes capital, but not always. When we speak of a capital input, we don’t necessarily speak of something like USD although we sometimes do.
Boomers are inherently selfish, spoiled, hypocritical, and largely delusional. But millennials aren’t much better. Gen X always gets a pass but their general apathy and complacency in maintaining the boomer status quo has only amplified the problems the boomers inflicted upon society. A generation raised on Kurt Cobain, .com boom and bust, and the cozy 90’s has left them completely defanged and unwilling to do much of anything. Zoomers are just spoiled gen xers. Alphas are fricked like millennials but are actually figuring this out much quicker than zoomers
gen x is the worst because they know better but still chose to sell out, whereas millenials had their entire futures mortgaged before they out of college
>They sold out
No, you just don't understand because your values are based on consuming. We understood that it'd be foolish to expect much let alone any help from those who came before us so we didn't bother crying like babies in the first place. Yeah, shit sucks for you guys a bit more but what are you gonna do to make a change?
Yeah I'm fricking tired of Gen X talking shit about Millennials. They're in their 40s and 50s by now, THEY'RE the generation in power, the Boomers still have the money but have largely fricked off from positions of power. Gen X are the ones making housing unaffordable.
Frick Zoomers, too, I'm not going to take any shit from a generation that is almost 50% functionally illiterate. We're going to use them as dancing monkeys when we're finally in power, and that's all a lot of them will be good for.
God willing Millennials preside over the total destruction of the United States, which I eagerly long for. Death to America. The entire world will be better off when the United States is no longer around.
>use them as dancing monkeys once
That would not only require working more than 25 hours/wk, but tearing your faces from your phones and actually doing something other than back the high finance corporate scum (your parents) that itself backs your slovenly ideological nonsense. Won't happen. 'Millenials,' for all their whining, stand to inherit far more scratch BY FAR than any other generation in history. But what do the ones fortunate enough to have dead parents already DO in my neighborhood? Struggle to get their kids to and from school. In socks and Crocs. That's it. >God willing
Right. By doing nothing at all-- how special. Thankfully, even to a 'half literate' bunch, (you) present an easy target. The subversion of all your tiresome, whiney nonsense has already begun.
Boomers still have all the power. They’re the biggest cohort among politicians, among business executives and shareholders, investors broadly, they occupy the majority of senior decision-making positions within institutions as well as faculty and administrators at colleges, and they form the largest voting bloc. Boomers still totally dominate Western civilization and the only real exceptions are the tech and social media sectors.
I was with you until the last part. It's funny how almost all political discourse went from being anti Muslim to anti Israel to anti American. The right have been compromised by the left, like always.
>the right have been compromised by the left >he thinks you can be right-wing and be pro-American
The United States is an inherently left-wing nation. It's a product of the Enlightenment and all its ideas of progress. America is a progressive ideological project, not a nation-state. Anyone who values capital-T Tradition is not going to be fond of America.
Why do you think American conservatives are so worthless? By submitting to America and its ideology they've already compromised.
So you're in my generation then? For as much hate as boomers get, I prefer their culture to millennial culture. I even prefer Gen X culture to my own. Also, what about Generation Jones?
Reagan opened the door for mergers and financial shenanigans which have led to massive centralization of capital and totally controlled markets. "Free" markets no longer exist since they are now manipulated by a handful of mutually interested parties against the average citizen's interest. Also, there has been a disastrous perversion of bedrock institutions like universities. The top universities in the US now operate more as hedge funds than institutions of learning. In short, we are in late capitalism which is why housing is the least affordable it's been in +50 years and wages have fallen behind inflation that whole time as well. If you are left/right brained, search Oren Cass's "The Cost of Thriving", he was the economic advisor to the Mitt Romney campaign and approaches this issue from a conservative angle.
Not only do politicians turn a blind eye to corporate consolidation at a rate that would make Teddy Roosevelt have a heart attack, they actually bail out the biggest corporations when their operations stutter.
It’s billionaires’ socialism, obviously. It’s sort of nuts that people try to insist this is still somehow capitalism or a free market. You’d have to pay attention only to the mergers and not the fact that the government literally subsidizes big corporations at the expense of the little guy. It’s nuts really.
It's weird how people will fight tooth and claw that the government not tell them what to do, but then they don't mind when corporate powers shape and control their life, options, and prospects and those of their children.
Didn't know mcdonalds would come and kill me if I don't pay the mcdonald's tax
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Hey, if you live in the wrong spot, Coca-Cola's death squads could literally be coming to kill you right now. Or Shell oil company's death squad.
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Anonymous
I mean that's why we're in foreign lands fighting wars. Corporations have properties over there. That's not to say communism is the solution. Only small businesses deserve subsidies. Big companies deserve to be busted into pieces.
I knew this was dishonest midwit pseud bullshit when the Netflix show that's based on it showed the little girl from Les Mis (2012) and implied that communism and revolution are le heckin good with no real further depth than that. Dropped show, dropped book.
Nobody except the Austrians understands how capital works. It’s not an exaggeration to say that 99.9% of morons graduating with MBAs and other assorted degrees in economics don't know a frick about the economy and especially capital. Most of them think of it as some kind of homogenous blob quantity that perpetuates itself automatically which it most certainly is not. Piketty is just another moron who nonetheless drew the correct logical consequences from neoclassical assumptions
The Austrians were consistently wrong
Pretty much every economist other than Marxists understand clearly how capital works. The confusion arises from continuously conflating capital from currency. Currency is sometimes capital, but not always. When we speak of a capital input, we don’t necessarily speak of something like USD although we sometimes do.
Boomers are inherently selfish, spoiled, hypocritical, and largely delusional. But millennials aren’t much better. Gen X always gets a pass but their general apathy and complacency in maintaining the boomer status quo has only amplified the problems the boomers inflicted upon society. A generation raised on Kurt Cobain, .com boom and bust, and the cozy 90’s has left them completely defanged and unwilling to do much of anything. Zoomers are just spoiled gen xers. Alphas are fricked like millennials but are actually figuring this out much quicker than zoomers
>t. Early millennial
>But millennials are hardly much better.
Kek
t. 'gen x'
Came here to say this. Speaking for Gen X, I'm happy to be left out of this stupid conflict, and to resume being chill and whatever.
gen x is the worst because they know better but still chose to sell out, whereas millenials had their entire futures mortgaged before they out of college
>They sold out
No, you just don't understand because your values are based on consuming. We understood that it'd be foolish to expect much let alone any help from those who came before us so we didn't bother crying like babies in the first place. Yeah, shit sucks for you guys a bit more but what are you gonna do to make a change?
Yeah I'm fricking tired of Gen X talking shit about Millennials. They're in their 40s and 50s by now, THEY'RE the generation in power, the Boomers still have the money but have largely fricked off from positions of power. Gen X are the ones making housing unaffordable.
Frick Zoomers, too, I'm not going to take any shit from a generation that is almost 50% functionally illiterate. We're going to use them as dancing monkeys when we're finally in power, and that's all a lot of them will be good for.
God willing Millennials preside over the total destruction of the United States, which I eagerly long for. Death to America. The entire world will be better off when the United States is no longer around.
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>use them as dancing monkeys once
That would not only require working more than 25 hours/wk, but tearing your faces from your phones and actually doing something other than back the high finance corporate scum (your parents) that itself backs your slovenly ideological nonsense. Won't happen. 'Millenials,' for all their whining, stand to inherit far more scratch BY FAR than any other generation in history. But what do the ones fortunate enough to have dead parents already DO in my neighborhood? Struggle to get their kids to and from school. In socks and Crocs. That's it.
>God willing
Right. By doing nothing at all-- how special. Thankfully, even to a 'half literate' bunch, (you) present an easy target. The subversion of all your tiresome, whiney nonsense has already begun.
Boomers still have all the power. They’re the biggest cohort among politicians, among business executives and shareholders, investors broadly, they occupy the majority of senior decision-making positions within institutions as well as faculty and administrators at colleges, and they form the largest voting bloc. Boomers still totally dominate Western civilization and the only real exceptions are the tech and social media sectors.
Insane fantasy of a powerless homosexual.
I was with you until the last part. It's funny how almost all political discourse went from being anti Muslim to anti Israel to anti American. The right have been compromised by the left, like always.
>the right have been compromised by the left
>he thinks you can be right-wing and be pro-American
The United States is an inherently left-wing nation. It's a product of the Enlightenment and all its ideas of progress. America is a progressive ideological project, not a nation-state. Anyone who values capital-T Tradition is not going to be fond of America.
Why do you think American conservatives are so worthless? By submitting to America and its ideology they've already compromised.
So you're in my generation then? For as much hate as boomers get, I prefer their culture to millennial culture. I even prefer Gen X culture to my own. Also, what about Generation Jones?
>R
>G
But enough about Kevin Nash
Reagan opened the door for mergers and financial shenanigans which have led to massive centralization of capital and totally controlled markets. "Free" markets no longer exist since they are now manipulated by a handful of mutually interested parties against the average citizen's interest. Also, there has been a disastrous perversion of bedrock institutions like universities. The top universities in the US now operate more as hedge funds than institutions of learning. In short, we are in late capitalism which is why housing is the least affordable it's been in +50 years and wages have fallen behind inflation that whole time as well. If you are left/right brained, search Oren Cass's "The Cost of Thriving", he was the economic advisor to the Mitt Romney campaign and approaches this issue from a conservative angle.
Not only do politicians turn a blind eye to corporate consolidation at a rate that would make Teddy Roosevelt have a heart attack, they actually bail out the biggest corporations when their operations stutter.
It’s billionaires’ socialism, obviously. It’s sort of nuts that people try to insist this is still somehow capitalism or a free market. You’d have to pay attention only to the mergers and not the fact that the government literally subsidizes big corporations at the expense of the little guy. It’s nuts really.
It's weird how people will fight tooth and claw that the government not tell them what to do, but then they don't mind when corporate powers shape and control their life, options, and prospects and those of their children.
Didn't know mcdonalds would come and kill me if I don't pay the mcdonald's tax
Hey, if you live in the wrong spot, Coca-Cola's death squads could literally be coming to kill you right now. Or Shell oil company's death squad.
I mean that's why we're in foreign lands fighting wars. Corporations have properties over there. That's not to say communism is the solution. Only small businesses deserve subsidies. Big companies deserve to be busted into pieces.
Knees weak arms are sweaty
There's capital in the 21st century
Thomas Piketty
Is it pea-ketty or pie-ketty?
>the Netflix show that's based on it
Huh? They made a show on this shit?