#Economic Harm

[thistlecrimes]

Things I've learned from getting covid for the first time in 2023

I wear an N95 in public spaces and I've managed to dodge it for a long time, but I finally got covid for the first time (to my knowledge) in mid-late November 2023. It was a weird experience especially because I feel like it used to be something everyone was talking about and sharing info on, so getting it for the first time now (when people generally seem averse to talking about covid) I found I needed to seek out a lot of info because I wasn't sure what to do. I put so much effort into prevention, I knew less about what to do when you have it. I'm experiencing a rebound right now so I'm currently isolating. So, I'm making a post in the hopes that if you get covid (it's pretty goddamn hard to avoid right now) this info will be helpful for you. It's a couple things I already knew and several things I learned. One part of it is based on my experience in Minnesota but some other states may have similar programs.

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The World Health Organization states you should isolate for 10 days from first having symptoms plus 3 days after the end of symptoms.

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At the time of my writing this post, in Minnesota, we have a test to treat program where you can call, report the result of your rapid test (no photo necessary) and be prescribed paxlovid over the phone to pick up from your pharmacy or have delivered to you. It is free and you do not need to have insurance. I found it by googling "Minnesota Test to Treat Covid"

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Paxlovid decreases the risk of hospitalization and death, but it's also been shown to decrease the risk of Long Covid. Long Covid can occur even from mild or asymptomatic infections.

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Covid rebound commonly occurs 2-8 days after apparent recovery. While many people associate Paxlovid with covid rebound, researchers say there is no strong evidence that Paxlovid causes covid rebound, and rebounds occur in infections that were not treated with Paxlovid as well. I knew rebounds could happen but did not know it could take 8 days. I had mine on day 7 and was completely surprised by it.

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If you start experiencing new symptoms or test positive again, the CDC states that you should start your isolation period again at day zero. Covid rebound is still contagious. Personally I'd suggest wearing a high quality respirator around folks for an additional 8-9 days after you start to test negative in case of a rebound.

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Positive results on a rapid test can be very faint, but even a very faint line is positive result. Make sure to look at your rapid test result under strong lighting. Also, false negatives are not uncommon. If you have symptoms but test negative taking multiple tests and trying different brands if you have them are not bad ideas. My ihealth tests picked up my covid, my binax now tests did not.

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EDIT: I'd highly suggest spending time with friends online if you can, I previously had a link to the NAMI warmline directory in this post but I've since been informed that NAMI is very much funded by pharmaceutical companies and lobbies for policies that take autonomy away from disabled folks, so I've taken that off of here! Sorry, I had no idea, the People's CDC listed them as a resource so I just assumed they were legit! Feel free to reply/reblog this with other warmlines/support resources if you know of them! And please reblog this version!

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I know that there is so much we can't control as individuals right now, and that's frightening. All we can do is try our best to reduce harm and to care for each other. I hope this info will be able to help folks.

#covid #covid 19 #harm reduction #apparently only 16% of Americans even got their booster #it's wild out there #which makes sense because our public health messaging has been super unhelpful and intentionally shifted the burden #of infection control onto individuals to avoid us holding them accountable because it's politically and economically inconvenient to them

[onecornerface]

Drug use & drug harms - long version

I'm interested in feedback or sources from anyone who knows relevant stuff in economics, policy analysis, or whatever.

X = drug use (e.g. total volume of substances consumed) Y = drug-related harms (e.g. physical & mental harms to the user + harmful acts & omissions by users against nonusers) There is a phenomenon in drug policy where policymakers see “X causes Y”, then they aim to reduce X (in order to instrumentally reduce Y, in direct proportion); but the result is “the remaining X causes *more* Y (per average token instance of X)”-- to such a severe degree that the total Y increases (despite the reduction in X). Is there a name for this? This seems similar to Goodhart’s Law? I'm not sure if it is strictly an instance of it? I could also subdivide it into a few parts, like (1) "use-reduction sometimes increases average harm-per-use" and (2) "sometimes #1 happens to such a degree that it increases total harm (not only average harm)." I claim that #1 is clearly true, and that #2 is often true as well (at least in countries where many people use drugs). However, here I'm not so much concerned to defend these claims, but mainly to better *specify* them. I'm just mainly looking for terminology, theoretical frameworks, and conceptual tools to clarify the basic ideas. Pls halp. To illustrate the idea more: In theory, it makes sense to try to reduce (the total amount of) drug harms *by* reducing (the total amount of) drug use. Ceteris paribus, "less drug use" DOES mean "less drug harms." Obviously. Halving the drug use should halve the drug harms. If legalization would increase drug use, then legalization should increase the drug harms. Hence why so much of the debate is over what does or doesn't increase drug use, without even bothering to carve "use" from "harm." (Not to mention non-drug harms, and deontic considerations like rights & autonomy, which complicate the picture further. I will set these aside here.) Hence why drug prohibitionists (like the ONDCP, led by the "drug czar") often cite use-reduction as their main proxy target for success in drug policy. (Some people also consider use-reduction an *intrinsic* value. I think this view is morally indefensible, for reasons I won't go into here. I'll be treating use-reduction as only *instrumentally* valuable. Also, some people slide between treating "use-reduction" as intrinsically valuable vs. treating it as instrumentally valuable-- I think this may involve a motte-and-bailey, or pandering to multiple audiences at once {e.g. keeping both moralists and pragmatists on board with prohibition] or suchlike.) However, there is a big problem: The "ceteris paribus" clause does NOT obtain-- and this is precisely because the *methods* of drug-use-reduction *increase* the harm-per-use. Prohibition may reduce total drug use, but prohibition *also* ensures that the average token instance of drug use is more harmful (compared to the average token instance of drug use under legalization). (For simplicity, I'm focused mainly on simple prohibition and simple legalization-- leaving out the many variants of each, and the many in-between positions.) Sometimes this harm-increase is a *byproduct* of the methods of use-reduction (e.g. cutting down the drug sales, leading to more dangerous volatility in the remaining drug market). And sometimes this harm-increase is an *intended* method of use-reduction (e.g. via direct and indirect punishments of users, like arrests and housing-evictions). In any case, this entails that use-reduction is a very flawed metric of drug policy success-- because the methods of prohibition will complicate the relationship between drug use and drug harm. (For "Goodhart’s Law"-esque reasons?) This is a problem worth analyzing even if one disagrees with my claim that prohibition increases total harm.

#harm reduction #drugs #economics

[dailyanarchistposts]

On Sunday, February 25, we received an email from a person who signed himself[1] Aaron Bushnell.

It read,

Today, I am planning to engage in an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people. The below links should take you to a livestream and recorded footage of the event, which will be highly disturbing. I ask that you make sure that the footage is preserved and reported on.

We consulted the Twitch account. The username displayed was “LillyAnarKitty,” and the user icon was a circle A, the universal signifier for anarchism—the movement against all forms of domination and oppression.

In the video, Aaron begins by introducing himself. “My name is Aaron Bushnell. I am an active-duty member of the US Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest—but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

The video shows Aaron continuing to film as he walks to the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, puts down the phone, douses himself in a flammable liquid, and sets himself alight, shouting “Free Palestine” several times. After he collapses, police officers who had been watching the situation unfold run into the frame—one with a fire extinguisher, another with a gun. The officer continues pointing the gun at Aaron for over thirty seconds as Aaron lies on the ground, burning.

Afterwards, police announced that they had called in their Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit.

We have since confirmed the identity of Aaron Bushnell. He served in the United States Air Force for almost four years. One of his loved ones described Aaron to us as “a force of joy in our community.” An online post described him as “an amazingly gentle, kind, compassionate person who spends every minute and penny he has helping others. He is silly, makes anyone laugh, and wouldn’t hurt a fly. He is a principled anarchist who lives out his values in everything he does.”

Aaron’s friends tell us that he has passed away as a consequence of his injuries.

All afternoon, while other journalists were breaking the news, we discussed how we should speak about this. Some subjects are too complex to address in a hasty social media post.

The scale of the tragedy that is taking place in Gaza is heartrending. It exceeds anything we can understand from the vantage point of the United States. Over 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, including over 12,000 children. More than half of all inhabitable buildings in all of Gaza have been destroyed, along with the majority of hospitals. The vast majority of the population are living as refugees with little access to water, food, or shelter.

The Israeli military is now planning a ground invasion of Rafah that will add untold numbers of casualties to this toll. It is not hyperbole to say that we are witnessing the deliberate commission of genocide. All available evidence indicates that the Israeli military will continue killing Palestinians by the thousand until they are forced to stop. And the longer this bloodshed goes on, the more people will die in the future, as other governments and groups imitate the precedent set by the Israeli government.

The United States government bears equal responsibility in this tragedy, having armed and financed Israel and provided it with impunity in the sphere of international relations. Within Israel, the authorities have effectively suppressed protest movements in solidarity with Gaza. If protests are going to exert leverage towards stopping the genocide, it is up to people in the United States to figure out how to accomplish that.

But what will it take? Thousands across the country have engaged in brave acts of protest without yet succeeding in putting a halt to Israel’s assault.

Aaron Bushnell was one of those who empathized with the Palestinians suffering and dying in Gaza, one of those haunted by the question of what our responsibilities are when we are confronted with such a tragedy. In this regard, he was exemplary. We honor his desire not to stand by passively in the face of atrocity.

The death of a person in the United States should not be considered any more tragic—or more newsworthy—than the death of a single Palestinian. Still, there is more to say about his decision.

Aaron was the second person to self-immolate at an Israeli diplomatic institution in the United States. Another demonstrator did the same thing at the Israeli consulate in Atlanta on December 1, 2023. It is not easy for us to know how to speak about their deaths.

Some journalists see themselves as engaged in the neutral activity of spreading information as an end in itself—as if the process of selecting what to spread and how to frame it could ever be neutral. For our part, when we speak, we presume that we are speaking to people of action, people like ourselves who are aware of their agency and are in the process of deciding what to do, people who may be wrestling with heartache and despair.

Human beings influence each other both through rational argument and through the infectiousness of action. As Peter Kropotkin put it, “Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic.”

Just as we have a responsibility not to show cowardice, we also have a responsibility not to promote sacrifice casually. We must not speak carelessly about taking risks, even risks that we have taken ourselves. It is one thing to expose oneself to risk; it is another thing to invite others to run risks, not knowing what the consequences might be for them.

And here, we are not speaking about a risk, but about the worst of all certainties.

Let’s not glamorize the decision to end one’s life, nor celebrate anything with such permanent repercussions. Rather than exalting Aaron as a martyr and encouraging others to emulate him, we honor his memory, but we exhort you to take a different path.

“This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”

These words of Aaron’s haunt us.

He is right. We are rapidly entering an era in which human life is treated as worthless. This is obvious in Gaza, but we can see it elsewhere around the world, as well. With wars proliferating around the Mideast and North Africa, we are poised on the threshold of a new age of genocides. Even inside the United States, mass casualty incidents have become routine, while an entire segment of the underclass is consigned to addiction, homelessness, and death.

As a tactic, self-immolation expresses a logic similar to the premise of the hunger strike. The protester treats himself or herself as a hostage, attempting to use his or her willingness to die to pressure the authorities. This strategy presumes that the authorities are concerned with the protester’s well-being in the first place. Today, however, as we wrote in regards to the hunger strike of Alfredo Cospito,

No one should have any illusions about how governments view the sanctity of life in the age of COVID-19, when the United States government can countenance the deaths of a million people without blushing while the Russian government explicitly employs convicts as cannon fodder. The newly-elected fascist politicians who govern Italy have no scruples about consigning whole populations to death, let alone permitting a single anarchist to die.

In this case, Aaron was not an imprisoned anarchist, but an active-duty member of the US military. His LinkedIn profile specifies that he graduated from basic training “top of flight and top of class.” Will this make any difference to the US government?

If nothing else, Aaron’s action shows that genocide cannot take place overseas without collateral damage on this side of the ocean. Unfortunately, the authorities have never been especially moved by the deaths of US military personnel. Countless US veterans have struggled with addiction and homelessness since returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Veterans commit suicide at a much higher rate than all other adults. The US military continues to use weapons that expose US troops to permanent brain injuries.

Members of the military are taught to understand their willingness to die as the chief resource they have to put at the service of the things they believe in. In many cases, this way of thinking is passed down intergenerationally. At the same time, the ruling class takes the deaths of soldiers in stride. This is what they have decided will be normal.

It is not willingness to die that will sway our rulers. They really fear our lives, not our deaths—they fear our willingness to act collectively according to a different logic, actively interrupting their order.

Many things that are worth doing entail risks, but choosing to intentionally end your life means foreclosing years or decades of possibility, denying the rest of us a future with you. If such a decision is ever appropriate, it is only when every other possible course of action has been exhausted.

Uncertainty is one of the most difficult things for human beings to bear. There is a tendency to seek to resolve it as quickly as possible, even by imposing the worst-case scenario in advance—even if that means choosing death. There is a sort of relief in knowing how things will turn out. Too often, despair and self-sacrifice mingle and blur together, offering an all-too-simple escape from tragedies that appear unsolvable.

If your heart is broken by the horrors in Gaza and you are prepared to bear significant consequences to try to stop them, we urge you to do everything in your power to find comrades and make plans collectively. Lay the foundations for a full life of resistance to colonialism and all forms of oppression. Prepare to take risks as your conscience demands, but don’t hurry towards self-destruction. We desperately need you alive, at our side, for all that is to come.

As we wrote in 2011 in reference to the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi,

Nothing is more terrifying than departing from what we know. It may take more courage to do this without killing oneself than it does to light oneself on fire. Such courage is easier to find in company; there is so much we can do together that we cannot do as individuals. If he had been able to participate in a powerful social movement, perhaps Bouazizi would never have committed suicide; but paradoxically, for such a thing to be possible, each of us has to take a step analogous to the one he took into the void.

Let’s admit that the kind of protest activity that has taken place thus far in the United States has not served to compel the US government to compel a halt to the genocide in Gaza. It is an open question what could accomplish that. Aaron’s action challenges us to answer this question—and to answer it differently than he did.

We mourn his passing.

[1] In the email, Aaron specified his pronouns as he/him.

#gaza #palestine #aaron bushnell #self immolation #self harm #solidarity #protest #crimethinc #community building #practical anarchy #practical anarchism #anarchist society #practical #revolution #anarchism #daily posts #communism #anti capitalist #anti capitalism #late stage capitalism #organization #grassroots #grass roots #anarchists #libraries #leftism #social issues #economy #economics #climate change

[wangxianficrecs]

the field meets the wood by astronicht

the field meets the wood

by astronicht

T, 7k, wangxian

Summary: Wei Wuxian is a dark shadow in the barley. Wei Wuxian is sorry for the kind of compassion that he is about to hand out. (in which Lan Wangji is stolen for salt, and Wei Wuxian unravels the world, a little)

Mojo's comments: Whoa. lwj is kidnapped after being struck with a wasting curse, and wwx goes yiling laozu on the salt merchants who took and hurt him. He's hurt and dripping blood the whole time, yet still manages to have a philosophical discussion about the universe and meaning of nothing before laying down a metaphysical retribution that nearly kills him. It's delicious. The writing is simply beautiful, which is a funny thing to say about a story that evokes such visceral horror.

Excerpt: “Correctly done, your ritual probably would not kill a cultivator,” Wei Wuxian allows. His voice is very cold, very academic. He sounds like Wen Qing, as well he should. He cut his teeth in the finer depths of demonic cultivation first at his shijie’s kitchen table after the war, then at Wen Qing’s elbow. He feels like a creation of the dead women he has known — Madam Yu, shijie, Wen Qing, all of their aborted scorn, their recalled injuries, the way even shijie’s eyes could sometimes look like two dry river stones. Lan Wangji, there on the floor, once had a mother who was kept locked away. Perhaps her qi was bound with a curse like this one; perhaps Lan Wangji has been used before now as a different sort of hostage. Wei Wuxian will try to do right by her. Wei Wuxian would have wanted her as a mother-in-law even if she were as formidable as Madam Yu.

bamf wei wuxian, slight whump, ritualistic self-harm, canon era, tang dynasty style, blood loss, blood and injury, salt economics, post-canon, podfic available, horror, pov wei wuxian, kidnapped lan wangji, established relationship, yiling laozu wei wuxian, curses, happy ending

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(Please REBLOG as a signal boost for this hard-working author if you like – or think others might like – this story.)

#Wangxian Fic Rec #The Untamed #wangxian #MDZS #Mojo's Rec #bamf wei wuxian #slight whump #ritualistic self-harm #canon era #tang dynasty style #blood loss #blood and injury #salt economics #post-canon #podfic available #horror #pov wei wuxian #kidnapped lan wangji #established relationship #yiling laozu wei wuxian #curses #happy ending #short fic <15k #teen #the field meets the wood #astronicht

[femmeidiot]

social media makes us treat people as disposable and that is a hill I will die on actually.

#Yeah yeah it’s one thing to block a former mutual you don’t know in real life or something but those acts very much translate outside of #social media because we’re out here creating feedback loops of only people we agree with on everything and cutting people off Willy nilly #‘Let go of people who no longer serve you’ absolutely bonkers bat shit thing to generalize other human beings like that #yeah I mean don’t stay in relationships that deeply harmful and abusive but to just cut off anyone who isn’t giving you something? #relationships aren’t economic transactions

[sskk-manifesto]

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#Aah I have so many thoughts concerning this episode #First of all: that I can think of Lucy really is the character that grew the most on me. #I remember I really didn't feel strongly for her the first time I watched and through the first year or so‚ #even after finishing reading the manga‚ but now I really like her a lot and feel strong sympathy for her!! #Second. I remember the first time watching I found Fitzgerald's portrayal really distatsteful... #Like I get there's a whole deal of the usa's economic power having destroyed literal countries. #And Japanese people are rightfully enraged at them. #And I get there's a whole deal of cultural colonization made by the usa of half the world #That said. I don't like countries stereotypes in general no matter the country. I believe it's harmful to enable stereotypes full stop. #Moreso in bsd where a lot of it feels to me like “Our country is the best and all other countries are bad / evil / lesser” #(Again like. There IS an issue with how every single foreign character is a villain if you ask me) #(And this is coming from someone who's not from the usa nor feels particular kinship with it. #Just to clarify that I shouldn't be holding preceding bias. Again I just dislike stereotypes in general‚ the country doesn't matter) #Third I LOVE Lucy's va they're sooooo good!!!! I adore them in p/p voicing Akane– #and it's extraordinary to see them voice a villain in this episode. I love them so so much they're so good at what they do #Fourth I remember the first time watching the episode it was immensely amusing how between Akutagawa and Lucy‚ #it really felt like everyone was trying to make a competition with Atsushi on who had the most miserable orphan life. Like guys‚ wtf 😂😂 #Fifth another thing that bugged me MASSIVELY was Lucy's reaction to Mori like… What even is that……… #Idk it's probably not a big deal and it's probably just an issue with me but. #It's just that in the context of bsd already being plenty sexist everywhere you look. #You have a female character who's evidently got the upper hand‚ in her own reign‚ with a super powerful ability– #facing a defenseless male character. And yet the male character is implied to win due to the power of his……… Frightening stare. #Like you DO get why it irks me right. One thing would have been if that was an ability he had‚ #but also the way it only seems to effect Lucy… To me it really adds to a rhetoric of women being more frail / easily scared– #because it's not like Mori was ever able to use his special move: scary look™ on anyone else #So y'know :/// #That's it. Atsushi and Kyouka were super cute <333 #random rambles

[rotzaprachim]

chamudi it would blow some of your pretty little tankie noggins what the political affiliations of many of the soldiers who carried out the nakba and established the modern state of Israel actually were

#Like ok. Ok guys. I think anticapitalism is an exceptionally important part of decolonial rhetoric #But being a socialist or a communist alone is not enough to end imperialism #Or settler colonialism #Often socialism or communism are logics by which new forms do settler imperialisms can grow #These people tend to also deny that the ussr was imperialist in any way so. Idk. Not a coherent band of logic #Writes posts with three levels of hurdles from goyim who learned what the green line was from a meme this week #Add on: I personally feel like the association of Zionism and wealth ir capitalism is jsut pure unhinged antisemitism #An ideology can be harmful in a lot of ways even if it is not all ways #While yes it’s true that Israel has experienced a hard right economic swing - as have almost all middle eastern countries #They are not alone #One of the complexities of Zionism as ideology has how it has cut across class lines #Been supported by socialists #Remains very popular with many poor Jews

[glavilio]

me sprinkling in a little bit of romantic baggage into all my characters with a uniquely transgender flavor. no one is safe

#i'm making pernelle and calisone ex lovers from way back #and his guilt over hurting her is a big reason why he doesn't obey the court's order and kill them as a knight and vassal #also prince mirse (the current partner of callisone and true vassal of the court) doesn't see citinri as a threat #he's certainly more of a strategist politician than how the king sees himself as a divine ruler. he understands that citrini has no #economic power or political leverage and that they own no land. the king's religious and fanatic fears are not shared by his court in i #it's entirety. so his vassals don't necessarily obey him but don't dispose him because he is easy to manipulate and change to the status qu #would inevitably harm the monarchy and the power the lesser princes can use. marse especially understands that but also sees pernelle as a #major potential ally in case things do go sour. the island is inferior technologically and she is one of the few insiders with #scientific and technological expertise that compares to the early modern mainland and other continents #because of calisone and pernelles history calisone also acts a little bit like a father figure to citrini #though a temporary and very very distant one. since both of citirnis grandparents are dead and half estranged. and their cousin is the same #age and also quite distant emotionally and geographically #of course plenty of the vassals do share the same religious and political ideals with the king #or familial ties #those are the ones that pose a real danger to young arrant errant citrinitas

[doppelnatur]

i think maybe we should start talking about victims and survivors as an oppressed group even outside of the context of other marginalizations. I'm thinking especially about victims of domestic violence, bullying and sexual abuse but also refugees and victims of natural disasters and other forms of ongoing stress/trauma, I just have less perspective on that and would welcome other perspectives here.

And yes, being part of a marginalized group, a) is in and of itself an ongoing stress, b) makes it more likely for you to become a victim of both interpersonal power imbalances as well as the effects of the global power imbalances as expressed as war and climate catastrophies, etc and c) makes it harder to receive help. I just think seeing those as intersections might be helpful? Conversations about domestic violence and sexual abuse are very commonly framed as conversations about gender and while I do think gender is an important factor in both, it is unhelpful to deny the doubt, downplaying and scrutiny all survivors regardless of gender face.

I think it would be helpful when building support networks to keep in mind the social bias against victims, whether those support networks help people escape a war zone or an abusive home. My impression is that a lot of the same social mechanisms that apply to marginalized groups, also apply to victims and survivors. It's the downplaying of the impact of the violence/disaster, the dehumanization, the speaking about you and not with you, the being robbed of your agency, there being "good" and "bad" victims, the contradictory and impossible standards you are held to, the way you're expected to bare yourself to display yourself and your wounds and be available for questioning...

I don't know maybe this is a useless concept or already really common framing but like I'd like to have a conversation about it?

#I really do think that not acknowledging the specific oppression of victimhood in and of itself does harm to survivors and our rights #But I don't know how else to phrase it than this? Does this make any sense? Should I explain something differently? #The baring and displaying yourself part is from a speech from a local black activist and didn't just mean it metaphorical #He also spoke about being literally made to undress being literally displayed. Like the metaphorical part is important but yeah #I've not been able to get this kind of framing of oppression out of my head it's literally so good and applicable to so many situations #Ohh also I guess refugees are often acknowledged as an oppressed group I just meant more like. #Seeing both the often racialized oppression and the intersection with the specific oppression that victims face and all refugees are victim #Regardless of which specific like events/laws/economics/stress/traumas they're fleeing from #and regardless of whether they're racialized. Though again. Ofc the specific intersections you sit at do matter and all that

[judasvibe]

a bunch of old ladies (mean age: 73) went to the ECHR to complain switzerland is disproportionately harming their living conditions by being inactive regarding climate

first of all, your living conditions are gonna last like, 20 more years or less on average, whereas a younger person has three times longer to suffer the consequences of it. second of all, old people are collectively far richer than the rest of us so if you need to install AC in your most likely owned home you can afford to unlike most younger people. do it. third of all. switzerland does far more for the climate than a country like china or india (check out living conditions of their elderly population btw :D ) i'm not sure exactly what inaction is relevant here. is it that you don't have a pool and masseuse at your disposal at all times? a servant blowing cool air in your face as you enjoy a financially secure retirement?

so i'm not sure how "disproportionate" the harm done to older people really is. and i'm not sure we should give much value to a complaint made to an extraterritorial authority with itself disproportionate power over a small country that's not even within its jurisdiction.

#ntm that when 'climate friendly' policies are implemented. they usually disproportionately harm the young #e.g. they severely curtail the economic and life opportunities still available to people. usually people who have had little time #to enjoy them before. if at all.

[zenosanalytic]

This video-essay from Andrewism is a good primer on what's wrong with the idea that barter is the primeval form of human exchange, and that money-economies arose from it. It's also only 15mins long!

#Andrewism #How the Barter Myth Harms Us #Video Essays #Video #Economics #Anthropology #Exchange #Politics #informative reblogs #Youtube

[corpus-incorporated]

current frame of mind is i think of everything in stock market terms now. i don’t know jack shit about economics i dont invest in anything but i will be talking about how my stocks are doing all the fucking time. not stocks i own but stocks that are me, the value of the stocks of me the company. which is REALLY funny considering my url here. it’s not just me too if something or someone does well at anything i go OHHHHH X STOCKS ARE SKYROCKETING and if something goes poorly it’s like OHHHHH THE STOCKS ARE PLUMMETING FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY. this is the new it’s jover and we’re so back. this isn’t something that’s gonna catch on though it’ll probably just be this micro joke amongst my friends for a while lol

#i think that thinking of things like stocks is just a joke with myself and with businessverse #i mean like i said i don’t know a lot about econ but i have an interest in it despite being super like anticapitalist #i find systems like that fascinating #there’s a reason why i made the market as a representation and form of worship for the gods in a religion i made #but like a lot of fixations i haven’t actually done a lot of research beyond exploring vibes #i think about economics irl based on how they affect people and control society - i think about how it affects me #and how economic pressures create realities that lead to social movements #the economy isn’t something we keep good at the expense of others if it is harming the public #if it’s harming the public it isn’t a good economy #i don’t think that’s healthy #but like yeah i don’t know the nitty gritty #and yes i think economies can exist and be healthy and lively outside of capitalist tyrany #they always say ‘hey communism means getting rid of any form of an economy’ #but like economies are inevitable to society and they have existed wirhout capitalism before #why am i rambling about this #send post #corpus hot take of the day

[sukimas]

the main issue with peacefully undermining monopolies irl is, you know, the massive amount of inertia that corporations have. if you could convince congress that they'd get just as much market share and control over the economy with your worker-owned co-op, they wouldn't interfere; this is generally why the us government was insane about anticommunism in non-aligned countries, because if those countries were capitalist it could have control there. but if you live in the imperial core it is not AS difficult as you think in terms of economics to make a change.

the problem is that you have to actually do the social organization alongside the economics and god knows leftists can't get along or make their positions appealing to non-leftists for five seconds

#i am leftists #i'm just more jaded than god five seconds before the flood #so i really emphasize effectiveness of organization and anti-doomerism more than i emphasize my actual (economic) political position #(market socialism- prevents most of the issues present in highly centralized and highly decentralized economies) #my social political position i do make fairly obvious. people should be able to do what they fucking want unless it's harming others #in a tangible way #and we should work as hard as possible to make it so all types of people can do what they fucking want without interfering w/each other

[taohun]

also having discussions about caste in liberal circles can be so fucking exhausting especially because the people around me treat it as this Big Hypothetical Situation because they’re all upper caste and it could never happen in THIS day and age meanwhile I’ve directly faced caste based microaggressions by like, fully grown adults when I was 14

#I’m not SC but I do technically qualify for OBC (obviously I’m in a place of privilege where caste does not affect me on a day to day #because I’m relatively economically privileged) #but like if I’ve faced that level of stuff then like people who do NOT have the same privileges as me are obviously dealing with it a LOT #more and in a much more harmful way. #so like fight for Dalit inclusion fight for SC ST OBC rights don’t let people talk shit. #and don’t act like your opinion is worth it’s weight in gold when you’ve never ever had to deal with anything of the sort. #not saying that my opinion is worth more or whatever BC my experience is so limited too but like gain some perspective #indian politics

[psychotrenny]

Mum look I'm famous. I made it onto the list of "Aline's Extended Posse". I'm especially honoured to be one of the few White First Worlders to end up on there

#like seriously though it's like every vaguely ML blog on tumblr I swear to god #I guess opposing the economic system that has both historically and contemporarily caused massive harm to Africans #both on the continent and on the diasporas it created #makes you “anti-black”

[moleshow]

maybe i’m just a bookcel coping and seething because i’m in awe of the natural writing style of the post-argumentative postpostmodernist infographic-chads though

#it is actually radical to eschew any field which might force you to learn about economics #because economic theory is inherently violent. or something. #political economy is also bad. twice as bad actually since policy is harmful. #no analysis! only decry.