#The efficiencies of capitalism

[nando161mando]

The efficiencies of capitalism

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

"Markets are not perfect, but they are the most efficient and fair mechanism for resource allocation." 

[phoenixyfriend]

I wonder how many business majors turn out like I did: disillusioned leftists who view all they learned for that degree with a healthy dose of skepticism.

[thelindenpapers]

Throughout human history there was an element of reciprocity that reliably happened between Earth and humanity.

Human and animal waste, food scraps, fallen leaves, garden trimmings, and other organic components; were almost guaranteed to be returned to the soil, to be broken back down into fresh soil...either via composting, or via burying the organic waste.

Substantial things made of metal or wood (or more recently, plastic) often got taken to the "junkyard".... and it wasn't uncommon back then for people to take a trip and purposely go browsing there: in order to find and repair, or else, break down old items into component parts, for reuse elsewhere.

Now?

EVERYTHING is landfill.

Everything just gets thrown all together into a garbage dump or a landfill... and I don't think that it is a coincidence that Earth is suddenly experiencing a problem with running out of topsoil in which to grow crops.

This has been compounded by the fact that the corporations throw away literal hundreds of tons of perfectly good food (organic matter that should at LEAST be returned to the soil to replenish the earth instead).

They do this because it then makes it possible to raise prices on their remaining supply of produce, according to their bizarre rules concerning supply and demand...

Is it any wonder that topsoil is disappearing, given these capitalistic changes, where now there is an artificially-increased rate of overextraction of resources from nature, coupled with a drastic decrease of sustained reciprocation?

[the-avaricious-meddler]

I also feel like if you told Fires most capitalists don't actually care about actual efficiency and it's just about making as much money as possible regardless of output. It just straight up wouldn't believe you.

[clueless1995]

self care has been so twisted into serving capitalism and the patriarchy it makes me sick actually

[icewindandboringhorror]

I find it kind of silly that so many of those "time based life rule" sayings are like ~deep serious guidelines~ of some sort, but then there's that one other Well Known Rule that's just like "hrmm can I eat something off of the ground or not"

[royalarchivist]

God gives his toughest battles (captioning a video that gives me terrible second-hand embarrassment) to his strongest soldiers (me, unfortunately).

[deoidesign]

we will recieve some glimpse in what Time And Time Again would have been if webtoon gave you enough time?

To be honest, at this point I don't think it would have been entirely different. It would have been More, I guess. Each part perhaps a little longer, development a bit slower, delving a bit deeper into their psyches, more time periods and mysteries...

The kinds of things I feel sad about missing are things like. I wanted to give Steve a cane. I wanted to touch more directly on Adam's PTSD. I wanted to get more into vampires, share some more of the worldbuilding I did, I wanted to send them to so many places, I have a list that's like an entire page of ideas! just... More! I still want to do these things, I'm trying to fit everything I can in... But yeah. Theres really only so much I can do with the limited time!

It's hard to explain, but when you rewrite everything to make it smaller, it's not necessarily different in very tangible ways. It's not quite like "this was the original ending but I had to change it" (for me, at least) it's more like... I planned a five course meal for my guests, but had to go with three. Everyone is still getting fed! And no one expected five courses anyways. The goal is that we're all full and happy.

I know this makes it confusing why I'm complaining about the situation, if it's no different tangibly what's the problem? Well the answer to that is it's extremely hard to condense things that, quite frankly, were already pretty dense. It's really hard! But it's work worth doing, to me...

So to answer your question, the glimpse into what it would have been is what I'm going to give you.

[system-of-a-feather]

The Trap of the Allure of "Efficiency"

Some food for thought from a conversation I had in therapy today, but I personally distrust the word "efficiency" and when I hear it - either in my internal dialogue or as a positive reason for doing something - I double take and look closer at the idea being called "efficient"

Efficiency, by definition, is the idea of "achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense" and that, on its own, is a great concept.

The issue is, when people say something is efficient, it over looks a few very important questions. Mainly:

What is cut out of the process that is deemed to be "wasteful" or unnecessary? Do you think that the thing cut out was wasteful and unnecessary? Are your opinions objectively right that said thing is wasteful and unnecessary? Do you agree with the premise that this is "efficient" or is it "productive at the expense of something important"?

And so a lot of people say something is efficient like it is a simple black and white objective thing that is always good and a lot of people accept that assumption without questioning if the so-called "efficiency" is ACTUALLY efficient

Cause there is honestly a lot to loose when prioritizing "maximum productivity" at the expense of "wasteful and unnecessary" aspects being removed from the process and experiences.

Of course things can be more objectively efficient (using 1 gallon of gas vs 10 gallons of gas), but 1) even those have to be thought more about such as the environmental and labor impacts of achieving those "objective efficiencies" and 2) the point isnt about efficiency being bad so much as it tends to be used in ways that minimize the amount you consider the pros and cons of procedure changes in favor of productivity

[probablyasocialecologist]

Overall efficiency analysis places a heavy thumb on the scale in favor of rich-biased policies because the rich—due to their greater wealth—are generally willing to pay more for the things that legal entitlements confer. Thus, rather than allocating resources to the poor, who are most in need, efficient policies tend to do the opposite: allocating resources to the rich, who are willing to pay the most. Efficient policies will therefore tend to allocate more valuable legal entitlements to the rich: more spending on transportation, more parks, and cleaner air in rich places than in poor ones. This Article calls this phenomenon the “rich get richer” principle of law and economics. In effect, unless their distributional consequences are offset, efficient polices tend to reinforce the existing wealth distribution: greater ownership of wealth entitles individuals to a larger allocation of policy entitlements—even if the rich do not pay for it. That is, rich-biased policies give disproportionate legal entitlements to the rich for free, exacerbating inequality.

Zachary Liscow, Is Efficiency Biased?

[nando161mando]

The efficient healthcare is desired

[unravelingwires]

Containerizes

Nila did some work at a homeless shelter for a while. In this process, she realized that, given the option to listen to podcasts for a while, she would be happy packaging food using the food packaging machine indefinitely. Ten years later and with some political education under her belt, she got increasingly irritated that due to the machinations of capitalism, she probably couldn’t work in a factory and be happy.

[marxism-leninism-meowism]

i am really curious what other fat people think about it. if you aren't fat, don't vote! simple as that

[khukri]

this tweet pisses me the fuck off i wish i could go back in time and strangle max weber

[mihotose]

savoir faire is the representative skill for ultraliberalism -> speed boosts motorics (including savoir faire) -> ultraliberalism incentivises using speed -> you get people like marielle charpentier (the estate agent in the apartments) whos on preptides and can be found still working into the dead of night insisting that martinaise's economy will soon flourish