#Unlearning Economics
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Oh this is so good
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Today's a good day for the girlies who like watching leftist video essays on youtube
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Planned Obsolescence
I get attached to things.
They stick to my fingers and it is hard to peel them off
When it is time to part ways.
I find it hard to throw things away,
To discard what was once used and loved.
For it is love, isn't it?
We forget that a large part of history is stories,
That memories and cherished moments intertwine our history with theirs,
And tie together our existences.
Of course we cannot say goodbye.
What a life it has been.
I am not sure if it is easier or harder these days,
With planned obsolescence and single-use disposables,
Are connections lessened by the normalisation of destruction?
Or does it just mean that heartbreak comes sooner and more often?
The world crumbles by design.
It consoles me,
Telling me this is just humanity's contribution to decay and rebirth.
It whispers about new features and fashions,
Telling me not to worry,
Telling me to forget.
It makes me cling to the old even more.
#2413#watched a great vid about planned obsolescence#unlearning economics#also yeah I'm sentimental about things#why wouldn't I be#things are awesome#writing#daily poem#original poem#poetry#spoken word#poem#spoken word poetry#poems
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Unlearning Economics - Free Stuff is Good, Actually
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This video explains how free stuff (healthcare, education, etc) is good, actually, from an economic perspective, citing studies that show long term economic benefit and profit, as well as expanded rights and quality of life for workers.
(Forgive me for the short and undetailed recap, I watched this one a while ago. Also note that beyond this point is my opinion and ideas, not just what was stated in the video iirc)
Of course, the reason why the United States doesn't then fund these systems and give away free stuff is that despite being more profitable in the long term, is that capitalists are short-sighted, and these systems of welfare and public access expand the rights and access of the working class, making them less vulnerable, more powerful, and more educated, and thus less exploitable, and the one thing that capitalism places above profit is exploitation.
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A fantastic takedown of Thomas Sowell's writings, logic, and ideology.
A worthwhile watch - a little lengthy at 2.5 hours though - but he has a lot of work to get through.
#Thomas Sowell#economics#Unlearning Economics#laissez faire#socialism#communism#leftism#education#economy#political economy#youtube#Youtube
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I have a new favorite youtuber. His name is Unlearning Economics. He backs a lot of statements with actual sources. If you go to his patreon it says "All patron tiers are the same. Socialism and all that." But his highest tier does have one extra tier than all the others:
Literal king shit. everyone go watch him
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Very funny when people disparage social sciences but treat economics as gospel as if economics isn't a social science. Point in nature where they care about GDP outside of humanity- the subject should be treated with the same amount of skepticism every other field is. Especially when economists famously think they know everything down to not thinking cross field research is useful to them while being treated as if they're physicists looking at hard data. And are also famously mostly white men, who to reiterate do not think others' knowledge holds value to them
I'm sure y'all can see the issue here
#winters ramblings#piss of an economist by telling them this. a rational one wont be mad on account of its TRUE#hilarious that people dismiss EVERY OTHER social science but the one that routinely argues how the poor should just DIE#like no not EVERY economic theory or practice is that but which ones do we actually try out and refuse to get rid of??#just the kill the poor shit.#anyway next time someone insults my degree on the basis of it being a social science ill ask em how they feel about economics#then inform them of The Good News#unlearning economics on youtube has a video on the economists not thinking cross field research is useful#watch it its good
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WHAT IVE BEEN SAYING!!!!!
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Degrowth basics
"The word degrowth stands for a family of political-economic approaches that, in the face of today’s accelerating planetary ecological crisis, reject unlimited, exponential economic growth as the definition of human progress."
What is Degrowth? | Caracol DSA
Why degrowth is the only responsible way forward | OpenDemocracy
Degrowth and MMT: A thought experiment
We Need A Fair Way To End Infinite Growth | Current Affairs
Degrowth: A Call for Radical Abundance | Common Dreams
Can degrowth save us and the planet? | Nottingham Trent
Defending limits is not Malthusian | Undisciplined Environments
Can We Have Prosperity Without Growth? | New Yorker
The Urgent Case for Shrinking the Economy | The New Republic
Giving Up on Economic Growth Could Make Us Cooler and Happier | The New Republic
A guide to degrowth: The movement prioritizing wellbeing in a bid to avoid climate cataclysm | CNBC
What is ‘degrowth’ and how can it fight climate change? | Popular Science
Enough for Everyone | Yes! Magazine
Toward a Post-Capitalist Future: On the Growth of “Degrowth” | Lit Hub
All we are saying is give degrowth a chance | The RSA
A pathway out of environmental collapse | newsroom
On Technology and Degrowth | Monthly Review
What is degrowth (and more importantly, what is it not)? | META
Green growth
"There is no empirical evidence that absolute decoupling from resource use can be achieved on a global scale against a background of continued economic growth."
Is Green Growth Possible? | Jason Hickel & Giorgos Kallis
The Myth of America’s Green Growth | Foreign Policy
The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability | The Conversation
Is green growth happening? | Uneven Earth
Green Growth | Uneven Earth
The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth | Scientific American
Degrowth is not austerity – it is actually just the opposite | Al Jazeera
A response to Paul Krugman: Growth is not as green as you might think | Timothée Parrique
Deceitful Decoupling: Misconceptions of a Persistent Myth | Alevgul H. Sorman
Degrowth isn’t the same as a recession – it’s an alternative to growing the economy forever | The Conversation
Degrowth and the left
"In the middle of an ecological emergency, should we be producing sport utility vehicles and mansions? Should we be diverting energy to support the obscene consumption and accumulation of the ruling class?"
The Left should embrace degrowth | New Internationalist
Ecosocialism is the Horizon, Degrowth is the Way | The Trouble
Degrowth: Socialism without Growth | Brave New Europe
Toward an Ecosocialist Degrowth: From the Materially Inevitable to the Socially Desirable | Monthly Review
For an Ecosocialist Degrowth | Monthly Review
Degrowth and Revolutionary Organizing | Rosa Luxemburg NYC
The necessity of ecosocialist degrowth | Rupture
Degrowth is Anti-Capitalist | Protean Mag
Degrowth Communism | PPPR (Part one | Part two | Part three)
Economic Planning and Degrowth: How Socialism Survives the 21st Century | New Socialist
Degrowth and the South
"Southern countries should be free to organize their resources and labor around meeting human needs rather than around servicing Northern growth."
Who is afraid of degrowth? A Global South economic perspective | IBON Foundation
The anti-colonial politics of degrowth | Jason Hickel
Unlearning: From Degrowth to Decolonization | Rosa Luxemburg NYC
Degrowth requires the Global South to default on its foreign debts | Resilience
Journals/Reports
Degrowth: a theory of radical abundance | Jason Hickel
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights
What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification | Jason Hickel
Providing decent living with minimum energy: A global scenario | Global Environmental Change
Urgent need for post-growth climate mitigation scenarios | Nature Energy
Degrowth and critical agrarian studies | Julien-François Gerber
Decoupling debunked – Evidence and arguments against green growth as a sole strategy for sustainability | European Environmental Bureau
Incrementum ad Absurdum: Global Growth, Inequality and Poverty Eradication in a Carbon-Constrained World | David Woodward
Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help | Nature
A New Political Economy for a Healthy Planet | Jason Hickel
Planning beyond growth. The case for economic democracy within limits
Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions | Cleaner Production Letters
Is green growth happening? An empirical analysis of achieved versus Paris-compliant CO2–GDP decoupling in high-income countries | The Lancet
Books
Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide | Pluto Press
A People's Green New Deal | Max Ajl
Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | Jason Hickel
Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job | Verso Books
The Future is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism | Verso Books
The Imperial Mode of Living: Everyday Life and the Ecological Crisis of Capitalism | Verso Books
Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism | Kohei Saito
Degrowth & Strategy: how to bring about social-ecological transformation
27 Essays and Thoughts on Degrowth | Giorgos Kallis
Videos
Yes To Limits To Growth! | The Other School
How Degrowth Can Save the World | Andrewism
How We End Consumerism | Our Changing Climate
Demystifying Degrowth | Rosa Luxemburg NYC
Degrowth is not Austerity | John the Duncan
Degrowth and Ecosocialism | Planet: Critical
Degrowth in 7 minutes: Fighting for climate by living better | Think That Through
The Future is Degrowth (w/ Aaron Vansintjan) || SRSLY WRONG
"Degrowth means power to the working class!"with Jason Hickel | GND Media
Others
degrowth.info
Degrowth Journal
Doughnut Economics
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So I watched "Quite on Set"
I keep hearing "Drake Bell was abused, but he's also an abuser" like these are remotely comparable offenses.
TW: sexual assault, child abuse
Not to minimize the psychological harm done to that girl, I'm sure receiving explicit messages from an adult at 15 was emotionally traumatic and violating. But when Drake was 15, Brian Peck took over his life, estranged him from his father, followed him across the country. He was stalked, raped, and tortured by a John Wayne Gacy fan with economic power over him. That's not just upsetting, that's an actual living hell.
And the only person in the industry there for him was Dan Schneider??? Of course he came out of that with a fucked up sense of what adult men can say to teenage girls. Therapy is where you unlearn that shit and he didn't talk to anyone for 20 years. How could he? He told the police what happened to him in gruesome detail, and Brian served 16 months before going back to work at Disney. Between that and all the support at the hearing, he must have felt there was no point in talking about it because no one cared.
Not to mention how easy it is to distance yourself from what you're saying and who you're talking to over text. Mix that with some dissociation and substance abuse, the cognitive dissonance wouldn't be hard to maintain. It was bad, but it doesn't make him beyond redemption. He's clearly trying to be better.
What I'm saying is cut Drake Bell some fucking slack, okay?
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One of the reasons for the "Left" becoming more and more like a cheerleading squad for exactly the kind of things Leftists are supposed to hate is because so much of this new coalition of young people are coming from conservative backgrounds, but not doing any real work to deradicalize themselves.
They grow up with these Puritanical ideas of sin and justice, crime and punishment, and instead of unlearning any of this they just switch the targets of their disdain. It's switching teams for them, not learning that they don't have to play the game. Most of them are soft conservatives who just want free healthcare.
And these Leftoid chud debate pervert streamers like Hasanabi are a big contributing factor to this, not the only factor, but a prominent one. He definitely puts this veneer of artificiality and commodification over the Left. American society is under a lot of stress right now, culturally and economically. Instead of the Left organically building coalitions it's mostly unorganized college kids reading Al Jazeera and Russian and Chinese propaganda and running as fast as they can away from privilege and having a toddler understanding of class consciousness. It's so pathetic and basic and it will not save us.
You cannot save a society that you don't think is worth saving. They're just practicing radical disengagement and some kind of edgy nihilism. They purport to hate America and the West and want to burn it all down but they know that will never happen which is why they're so comfortable with the cognitive dissonance. It's why they don't vote, and why organizing and demonstrating is like teeth pulling for them. Either black activists have to do all the leg work for them, or the protests have to be about tearing something down, not advocating for any positive change, right now that's Israel. Soon it will be something else.
Unironically, the pussy hat resist lib wine moms did way more with their women's marches than any of these wannabe philosopher college kids are doing with anything. Like I know for a fact a "Leftist" would read a post like that and be like "L + ratio libshit, imagine supporting the neoliberal fascist colonialist concept of due process?" like we're so beyond the pale at this point. When fascism takes over, I'm sure they'll think they're fighting back, but if the fascists learn to coopt enough phrases about climate and Palestine and healthcare, will they even notice the fascists taking over?
I've got a few friends who were raised hardcore fundie Christian, "gays will burn" creation and rapture types. They went to normal public colleges and wound up becoming very left-wing, all the left memes and slogans you can think of, fastidious in their distinctions between and protections of every conceivable marginalized group (which none of them are, on any axis). And.... you can't disagree with them about anything. Can't point out that a source is questionable or that a slogan is psychologically backfiring and producing skepticism or mockery instead of benefits. They will not hear of it, because they are still fundies. They did a binary flip from one team to another but never moderated their tactics or temperament.
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Studytube / productivity YT channels
Youtube's interface is literally designed to keep you hooked for hours with content algorithm figured you'll like but is not necessarily good for you so I decided I want to make a shortcut to content I actually want to watch. Enjoy༄ ( comment your own recs I might add)
☑️ General / Studying / Productivity
UnjadedJade
Elizabeth Filips
Studyquill
Ruby Granger
Dakota Warren
Fayefilms
mar fortuno
The Bliss Bean
Lydie & Hazal
James Scholz / jay skullz / jvscholz
Han Zhango
Rosie Crawford
Yoora Jung
🧠 Stem
Tibees² (math & physics??)
Lydie & Hazal (medschool vlogs)
Veritasium (pop science)
Simon Clark (pop science)
Han Zhango (math)
TedEd (it has everything I dunno)
🗨️ Linguistics & languages
Steve Kaufmann (the OG)
Lindie Botes (mainly kr, cn, jp)
Tanya Benavente (mainly it, es, gr)
Zoe.languages / Zoe的中文频道 (cn, jp, kr)
TedEd German
TedEd Japanese
TedEd Mandarin
innerFrench
🖼️ Art & art history
The Canvas
Behind the Masterpiece
Great art explained
📉 Economics
Unlearning economics
Economics - Crash Course (playlist)
The Financial Diet
〰️ Other / idk
Study Hall
#siloh.txt#study tumblr#study channels#studyblr#study#study motivation#study blog#chaotic academia#motivation#light academia#academic validation#academic weapon#dark academia#art history#art history student#stemblr#stem academia#stem#women in stem
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as a tme person, what do you recommend i do to become a better ally to trans women?
ive had this sitting in my inbox for a few weeks and i think i know what to say now;
The most direct and obvious answer is to donate money to transfems. All other variables (race, disability, parent's economic status, etc) equal, a tme person is going to have better job prospects and make more money than a transfeminine person. Hit up donation posts. It's not fun but I mean, its easy and its practical and it directly helps.
If there are trans women in your life, just... know them, respect them, be there for them, be open about the fact that you're aware of transmisogyny and trying to unlearn it, and just generally just offer your hand in help when you can.
More in general, interrogate your own biases wrt to trans women. Ask yourself questions like "am i projecting sexuality onto her?" am i projecting malice or deception onto her?" "am i assuming she knows less about gender than someone who was afab?" And- if you're comfortable- ask yourself that of other people, and challenge them when you see them say something transmisogynistic. Be vocal about these double standards- we're not predators, we're not sex objects, we're not liars, we're not men.
When you see people say "be normal about trans women", know that that's not something that's going to come naturally to anyone living in our society- just know that you're going to have to do some manual gear-shifting around the image of transfems in your head.
Read Whipping Girl.
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is jane a libertarian to you or is she something better than what hs2 did to her
at 16? i don't know if i would call her a libertarian, just someone who has political + economic views that were.. definitely influenced by her upbringing (being groomed from birth to "inherit" a corporate empire will do that to you) and i think she would have to unlearn all of that as she got older (which i think she would because i'm an optimist). but on the level that hs2 took it to? god no (though i do think hs2 definitely pushed her further than libertarianism)
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Given how fast things are getting worse, forget moral worries about air travel: is it acceptable for me to drive anywhere, including work? Is it morally acceptable for me to continue to live at all, and thus keep putting carbon into the environment?
I just listened to an old livestream by the Unlearning Economics guy about the carbon taxes vs renewable subsidy issue. He was more skeptical of carbon taxes than I expected, given that they're, like, the Standard Prescription among economists for climate change, being putatively politically neutral and in the right circumstances (i.e., in conjunction with rebates) not necessarily super regressive.
But they're politically toxic, and he pointed out, this isn't just because people don't want to do anything about climate change. It's because the costs them impose on most people, like on transport, are on the parts of their lifestyle that it's most difficult for them to change. You by yourself cannot change the structure of the housing market where you live; and if you live in a wasteland of Euclidean zoning, then short of upending your life and moving to a city designed on completely different lines (which in North America is likely to be a very high cost of living area) there's not a lot you can do about it. There are things on a longer time horizon that carbon taxes might incentivize, like more mass transit, that would help with this, but to voters the most transparent effect of a carbon tax is likely to be a big price spike at the fuel pump, and the cost of their electricity going up. That sucks ass!
In those circumstances, there are some taxes that make sense (like taxes on air travel, which emits a lot of carbon and which people use much less, and in a way much more weighted to their income [except among first-generation immigrants, so you might want to account for that also]), and you might consider smaller carbon taxes in conjunction with other policies, but it also makes sense to do a lot of direct investment in renewables, i.e., subsidies, which do seem to be pretty effective. And of course making it easier to build nuclear power wouldn't hurt either!
All of which is also to illustrate that individual choice is kind of a red herring, bc climate issues are a large-scale coordination problem. "If everyone would just--" is a useless line of thinking, especially when it gets turned around to "I'm a bad person if I don't--." Because when it comes to this kind of coordination problem, there are active incentives pushing people away from doing the thing that you think they "should," and no amount of haranguing others (or yourself) will make it any easier to, say, live a car-independent lifestyle in a region with poor mass transit that's designed around single-family homes.
Expecting people to live the lives of ascetics, actively suffering for a nebulous good whose results they cannot hope to perceive in their lifetime, is not just foolish but kinda mean-spirited. Much better to do what you can to help coordinate solutions--to vote for people who are reform-minded on climate issues; maybe to donate your time or skills if you have something specific to contribute--and not to beat yourself up over it.
I really think this framing of your personal carbon footprint as a kind of sin you have to expiate is deeply counterproductive. It's just scrupulosity updated for the modern day. Unless you are the CEO of British Petroleum, or you set forests fires for sport or something, you can relax about this a little bit.
#apparently the actual empirical evidence for carbon taxes is kind of thin#though this is in part bc they're so unpopular
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