#Free market

[moonbean117]

[gamer2002]

[gwendolyn-of-loxley]

As always, please reblog so others may contribute to this poll.

[imaginationengine]

The Future Looks Bright... 😎🔥

[drowndrawn]

The fact that Tumblr needs new users constantly and that it can't be fine with the regular user base is only a problem inherit to what we call social media because social media exist inside the capitalist system, in which enterprises always needs to keep expanding so they won't get eaten by bigger ones.

I was thinking about it in relation to the censorship on this site regarding Palestine (is it a coincidence?), and, in my little mind, maybe the only way for keeping Tumblr alive and working as our home would be for us (regular users) to buy it and to run it like the AO3 is by OTW.

We all know how interconnected AO3 and Tumblr are, and imagine if in AO3 we lived by being censored (this is quite the opposite case of AO3) and in constant risk of all our production being wiped out. Being AO3's other hand for fans around the world and, honestly, the only place where you don't have to fight for obvious shit like people having the right to be what they fucking are and the only place where you get to obsess over something for days and months on end without a single complaint, Tumblr should be ran by us, not by some random conglomerate that just wants to eat and not be eaten.

[anarchistin]

[A] great embarrassing fact ... haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

— David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years

[o0katiekins0o]

I don't know. I don't think it's feminism making fewer women prioritize marriage and children.

I think it's because an entire generation of girls turned on MTV, and instead of music videos, watched 16 year olds give birth to 17 year olds' babies while said 17 year olds played gameboy.

Just maybe it was seeing young women's lives completely disintegrate while the young men's lives remain largely unchanged.

And the older men who should honestly know better aren't beating these same charges either so what do you expect?

It's hilarious how it's always dudes who jerk it to the concept of the "free market" who are whining about "feminism ruining women" when it's literally the most free market response to say "I'm not investing until I'm reasonably certain the payoff is worthwhile."

That's just the free market hard at work, my dude.

If you really were a "high value man"- women would have noticed by now. Women love a great value.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[philosophicalconservatism]

The defender of the free market is not someone who is peculiarly preoccupied with money or material wealth, he is someone who believes in the principle of individual human liberty in general, and simply does not make the sphere of material goods or property an exception to that belief.

It is the opponent of the free market which has a unique and peculiar preoccupation with money and material things: he must control them.

[culturevulturette]

[hoping-for-novelty]

My lecture today included the phrase "managers are agents for stockholders and are tempted to act in their own interest rather than maximizing value"

[gamer2002]

Companies falling due to them not delivering products that sell is a good thing that improves the overall quality of the industry.

And people were telling you for years that you were making a mistake. You have smugly replied that such people were no longer your audience and you were going to be appreciated and supported by the fabled modern one.

You were proven wrong, you have nobody else but yourself to blame, and the people whose warnings you have ignored have every right to feel vindicated.

And the alternative to the current situation is companies getting subsidized from our tax money, just so you could produce crap that we do not want to buy. Quite frankly, if this is what you wish for, you are proving Ayn Rand right about parasites.

[satiricaljusticewarrior]

Continuation of satirizing the Brian Thompson murder debacle.

Jimmy Kimmel from ABC, who once wore a shirt against gun violence, has decided to make light of those siding with Brian Thompson’s murderer. https://x.com/tomselliott/status/1866826845729198322?s=19

Other instances of prominent media and political figures siding with the murderer:

The Daily Show equating a proven self-defense case in court with shooting a defenseless man in the back. https://x.com/TheDailyShow/status/1866921478949609752

AOC says that whatever the left doesn’t like is considered violence, which then justifies the left’s actual violence. https://x.com/alanhe/status/1867274875859349565?s=19

Anyway, those who find the murder acceptable are children on their parents’ insurance, not people who actually struggle with insurance. https://emersoncollegepolling.com/december-2024-national-poll-young-voters-diverge-from-majority-on-crypto-tiktok-and-ceo-assassination/

About Biden’s $43 billion failed program and Starlinks:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jun/18/bidens-425-billion-rural-high-speed-internet-plan-/

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1834668384300286313

As for my claim that more people per capita die in the UK and Canada: A 2009 study determined that 45,000 people in the US die every year due to lacking insurance. Meanwhile, in the UK, 120,000 people have died, which is outright more—not just per capita. In Canada, it is 17,000, even though Canada has around 8.35 times fewer people than the US. So, in the US, this would be over 141,000 people dying due to inefficient healthcare, which would be more than three times the estimated supposed victims of the US healthcare system that Brian Thompson was meant to be blamed for. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/07/americans-healthcare-medical-costs

If the left wants to argue that it’s preferable for more people to die from poor healthcare than for people to have medical debt, they can start an honest discussion. But this isn’t why Brian Thompson was murdered or why he is being vilified by the murderer’s supporters.

I know there will be arguments that the US has a lower life expectancy than the UK and Canada. However, claiming that this is due solely to the US healthcare system conflates correlation with causation. Other factors have a direct impact on life expectancy in the United States.

For instance, 18% of the US population has severe obesity, which reduces life expectancy by at least 10 years (https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/12/close-to-half-of-u-s-population-projected-to-have-obesity-by-2030/). Additionally, 16.7% of the U.S. population struggles with substance use disorder (https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-statistics-demographics). The US also shares an open border with a country that has a lower life expectancy.

These are just the most obvious factors affecting life expectancy. Unless these issues—and how they differentiate the US from Canada and the UK—are addressed, it is unfair to blame the US healthcare system for the difference in life expectancy.

PS: My previous cartoon has been further validated by swing voters who admitted they voted for Trump because they were turned off by left-wing ideas.

https://www.liberalpatriot.com/p/the-dnc-and-the-democrats?publication_id=239058&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=2dyylb&utm_medium=email

[miochimochi]

Made 2 new lino cuts. The fabric here isn't the best for stamping it seems but it's enough to show off.