#Free market

[gamer2002]

[gwendolyn-of-loxley]

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

[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.

[miochimochi]

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

[nando161mando]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

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Jim Wright

Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a conspiracy nut and rabid anti-vaxxer, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

RFK Jr has a long, long history of insane, counterfactual, completely wrong, and at best misleading claims regarding vaccines. I don't thinks he's every said a single word about vaccines that was correct. There isn't an unhinged vaccine conspiracy theory Kennedy doesn't love and believe whole hog.

He's lost literally hundreds of lawsuits over vaccines.

But NOW he's going be in charge of vaccination for the entire country.

We're literally going to put the biggest nut in the booby hatch in charge, and we're going to lock up all the doctors.

Guess Liberals should have shown up, eh? Then again, anti-vax conspiracy theories have long been a popular bugaboo on the far left, which is where Kennedy himself came from, so maybe the Left is getting exactly what it wanted after all.

Be that as it may, or may not be, Kennedy has said the government won't out and out outlaw vaccines, but will just make it so they aren't mandated.

Vaccines won't be mandatory and no one from schools to employers to the military will be able to make them so.

(You probably don't want to spend too much time imagining the massive vulnerability any unvaccinated military will face in a battlespace where disposable $100 drones can easily spray biological agents over wide areas...)

Anyway, you'll still be able to get your family vaccinated.

But your insurance won't cover it.

Oh, you didn't think about THAT, did you?

Yeah, if vaccines aren't mandatory, AND the government agency tasked with certifying their effectiveness is run by a bunch of drooling lunatics who think Froot Loops make kids gay or something, well, then there isn't any way in hell that your insurance company is going to pay for them. Especially when they repeal the ACA slash Obamacare.

In practical terms what this means is that ONLY the rich will be fully vaccinated.

And the poor will be ravaged by disease.

Oh, and it's not just going to be measles, mumps, polio, whooping cough, flu, COVID, etc. No no. It'll be the classics like cholera and typhus too, because Trump, RFK, and the new Department of Government Efficiency run by Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, are ALSO going to get rid of health inspectors, you know, the people who make sure your food isn't contaminated by rat flees or your drinking water doesn't have human shit in it.

Don't worry, I'm sure the Free Market will sort it out soon enough, and at a profit too.

When Trump said make America like the 1700s again, Buddy, he wasn't kidding

[ophilosoraptoro]

The Swamp Survived: Why Trump Failed to “Drain the Swamp"

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]