#ecomonics

[squarebracket-trickster]

What? No Destiel meme for Chrystia Freeland resigning? USAmerican-ass website

[llycaons]

his usual tattered black jeans (does he own more than one pair of pants?)

RUDE

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

The poor himbo brother knows nothing!

I don't know anything about ecomonics and I knew that one!

Trying to convince people he was right. Invisible hand, dude! Invisible!

[roger-elizabeth-debris]

Well, @yetanotherdayofdrudgery, if you were economically literate in the slightest, you'd know that the existence of even a single billionaire is a massive drain on any economy due to the massive amount of resources they are pulling out of the economy. Like, the money multiplier effect is literally econ 101, ie, having a billionaire dollars means said billion dollars is not in the economy at all. So, yeah, literally throwing a billion dollars at anything other than another billionaire or a government means that money is being used and circulated in the economy.

Congrats I guess on failing econ 101 tho and pointing fingers at "economic illiterates" tho, good job.

Furthermore, a billionaire cannot exist without exploitation, so I mean, the selfishness comment isn't out of pocket lmao

Just love picturing /r/antiwork-ers hanging out with billionaires on the weekend talking about motives for public philanthropy efforts.

As for the post itself, there's definitely an argument to be made that billionaires have a strong motivation for PR related reasons to donate, but there is very little motivation for them to do it for tax breaks. They are almost always better off financially moving their money through other mediums.

[spot-the-antisemitism]

https://www.tumblr.com/blackstarlineage/775800680696971264/the-hypocrisy-of-the-kanye-west-controversy-a?source=share

Can I ask for a second opinion on this one? Because, on the one hand, I agree that the reactions were disproportionate. But on the other hand, it feels extremely Oppression Olympics and "Jews have undue, unfair, and excessive influence and control" conspiracism. So I'm torn and would like another perspective.

Hey there old friend (2 years lol) glad to be each other's sanity check!

You're right on the money this time!

while this is fucked to say

people very much do say this to Jews and I have receipts

Op's premise is that Jews are white global elites and black people are powerless

(((power in the global ecomonic system))) -> Jews control the banks

the fun part is that OP says that the solution is for black people to have self determination. The reason it doesn't come off as so henious is because OP looks at jews and instead of going "we're suffering but the jews aren't that's unfair we should torture Jews until the suffer more than we do" of Hamas and their western bootlickers OP goes "Jews aren't suffering as much we are, we should get some of that media and bank controlling power too, then we'd be happy"

[pegasusdrawnchariots]

2024 reads! 📖

*walks in 2 weeks late with a chai latte* I was tagged by @oatflatwhite to share my fave reads of 2024! mate, thank u for the tag & thank u for yr patience O7

Apparently I only finished 3 books last year 💀 Here they are!

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern 🎪

Is there anything new left to be said in praise of The Night Circus? I had read it once before in high school & it hit just about all of my buttons then. Rereading it flung me right back to who I was at that time & was a gorgeous magical adventure to boot. I actually read it as an audiobook on youtube & loved every moment — the male narrator did a great job making every voice distinct & intriguing, for the female characters too without getting silly. The writing is rich with sensory detail, from the quality of the wind to the scent of sugary popcorn to the colour of a magical fire. It is rich with style, atmosphere, & above all dramatic tension my beloved <3 Never have I wanted more for a fictional place to be real!

Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett 🧹

Yet another book filled with rich magical sensory detail, as well as humour, this time in a completely fictional world. This is the 3rd instalment in the Discworld series, which I'm slowly making my way through & thoroughly enjoying. It's about the appearance of the first ever female wizard on the Disc & her struggle for acceptance among the very boys' club culture at the wizards' Unseen University, & also features the first appearance of the famous Granny Weatherwax! Lots of capable girls & women stomping around getting into pickles & getting things done while the blokes hem & haw about whether or not that is against the lore (lol)... Can't wait to pick up Mort next!

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas & Auguste Maquet 🩸

Another brilliant audiobook courtesy of Librivox! <3 A new addition to my tightly curated inner circle of favourite books. Rich in plot, character, drama, comedy, with stakes that both sweep across nations & huddle up in a single empty room. It's got everything. Fake identities. Daring escapes. Ecomonical machinations. Lesbians. Himbos. Resurrections. Court drama. Glorification of drugs AND violence. Loaded conversations with old friends & old flames. A documentary on telegraph mechanics. Timelines not to be studied too closely. History not to be studied too closely. & one insanely powerful, insanely intelligent, & perhaps even simply insane man at the centre of it all seeking vengeance for a betrayal in his past. It is THE revenge plot of all time & delicious every step of the way. I cannot get enough. The authors knew this & generously gave me 640,000 words of it!! What more could anyone want out of a book?

Tagging @ninadove @justbecringe & @swamp--girl bc I wanna hear what you've been reading too 📚

[biologusputrifier777-blog]

Begging tumblr mfers to stop calling capitalism the most exploitative economic system in history.

Capitalism is the exploitative economic system that we live under, and it has reached its reactionary era. It is the driver of nearly all suffering that currently exists and it serves no purpose, history will not progress until Capital, the bourgeoisie state, and wage labour are abolished. Despite this, Slavery existed as the dominant mode of production at one point. As did feudalism. It is ahistorical to consider Capitalism the most exploitative ecomonic system to have ever existed, it betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of Marx and his work, and it makes the people who say it seem stupid and misinformed.

[rjzimmerman]

Here's the scoop on the Ecomonic Boycott that I fully support:

The 24 hour Economic Blackout

As our first initial act, we turn it off.

For one day we show them who really holds the power

WHEN:

Thursday February 27th from Midnight till Friday The 28th Midnight

(A full 24 hours of the 28th)

12:00 AM to 12:00 AM

WHAT NOT TO DO:

Do not make any purchases

Do not shop online, or in-store

No Amazon, No Walmart, No Best Buy

Nowhere!

Do not spend money on:

Fast Food

Gas

Major Retailers

Do not use Credit or Debit Cards for non essential spending

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Only buy essentials of absolutely necessary

(Food, Medicine, Emergency Supplies)

If you must spend, ONLY support small, local businesses.

SPREAD THE MESSAGE

Talk about it, post about it, and document your actions that day!

WHY THIS MATTERS!

~ Corporations and banks only care about their bottom line.

~ If we disrupt the economy for just ONE day, it sends a powerful message.

~ If they don't listen (they wont) we make the next blackout longer (We will)

This is our first action.

This is how we make history.

February 28th

The 24 Hour Economic Black Out Begins.

[bethanythebogwitch]

Digimon request: I love plants (studying botany and mycology) and Warhammer. Now create something glorious if you’d be so kind

Ok, I'll see what I can do. There's not a lot of Digimon that combine plants with technological elements so I'll have to draw more from Fantasy and AoS than 40K.

I'm going to use an Appmon to stand in for the child/rookie level. If you're not a fan of using Appmon as Digimon, Mushroomon would also work here. Ecomon does combine plant and technological elements in that it's a battery that helps save energy and helps the environment.

I will have Ecomon evolve to Arbormon. Arbormon is a living karakuri puppet, meaning its an automaton made of wood. Could be something of a titan by way of the wood elves. Its also classed as a cyborg type Digimon so maybe it could be a plant version of a techpriest.

Arbormon will evolve to Ajatarmon. I think this one could easily fit into the Sylvanety roster without standing out. Its a hunter made of plants that lives in low-tech tribes, which would also let it fit in with the wood elves or exodites.

I have two options for the ultimate/mega level, one that leans more toward the fantasy and one that leads more toward 40k. For the fantasy side there's Bloomlordmon, a knight made of plants. It looks like it could be a collaboration between the Sylvaneth and Stormcast Eternals. For the 40k side there's Puppetmon, who carries forward the sort-of mechanical elements of Arbormon with its gear motifs and its hammer is based on a revolver and shoots bullets.

As an honorable mention, I'll bring up my original evolution line of Scrapmon, BigScrapmon, MegaScrapmon, and Gigascrapmon. The designs of these were heavily inspired by Ork tech as well as other 40k vehicles like the Lord of Skulls

[liveleaker]

liveleaker is the only hope for this nation

Not very true Id probably cause great ecomonic distress

[tkwolf45]

home ecomonics....

You teach at a magic school, but you do not teach any magic. In fact, you are not even a mage. Yet your classes are among the few that every student has to take, no matter what kind of magic they are studying.

[nyabbattack]

i always wondered if there will be another sequal to my lore set in the mid 2000s but tf will it talk about? the recession? ecomonic downfall? 9/11??????

[congregamus]

I guess I have to round all this ecomonic complaint up with a declaration which is slightly less cryptic than is usually my style: "Ah!" (I said to myself,) "Truly, this is a time ruled by the pentacles."

I think this blog may have existed at the time when I had my deepest reading at a little shop across the Bay in Oakland. I had a good feeling about the reader, so I said, "Start the meter and go as deep as you can. I want to hear what you can tell me."

And when she saw that I was reading along with her, we just started to talk. We had a very good conversation, but I remember so little of it. What I do recall, though, is that she said, "You are not dumb. But you are about the concrete. About material stuff. And that's a choice that, one day, you'll finally stop making when you get tired of banging your head on the concrete."

And so here we are.

[z-arcane]

Election ramblings: Looking at manifestos, I'm very torn between green and lib dem. I like the green manifesto, I think their ecomonics make sense but most of their decisions feel whole and useful toward the UK as a whole. However, their anti-nuclear stance is unscientific and makes it hard for me to want to vote for them. A lib-dem vote might have to be the way I go because my constituency is basically lib-dem v.s. tory. BUT I have seen a huge amount of Vote Green placards in gardens so maybe i'll vote green fuck it who even gives a shit anymore.

[stoneantler]

my boss just asked me for a one page summary of the ecomonic conditions that lead to the rapid suburbanization of our city in the 60s. He then plans to use this page to make a 30second throw away comment on the issue in a departmental presentation. I'm so tempted to send him this 900 page dissertation I just found that answers his question.

[popicoooo]

KotS | Galatra | Fun facts

Galatra society is split in two ways: the region (north, south, east, west) someone lives in and their ecomonic class. [Basically like real life but I have funny names for them :)]

Regional stereotypes

Northerner

The high class region of Galatra, the people that live there are generally connected to the dissolved noble class.

Generally stuck up and pretentious.

Having unblemished skin is seen as odd in Galatra, but northerners make a point of not getting into scuffles or doing hard labor.

Artisans often live in this area, specifically painters and sculptors.

Before the kingdom was found, the northern tribe of this region was the largest of the old tribes, and while not the most physically fit, used siege tactics to absorb the other tribes into their own. Basically, the kingdom of Galatra was formed from the northern region’s conquest.

Westerner

The business center of Galatra, this region is very similar to the northern region in the perception that everyone there is rich, but in reality there are far less wealthymen than not.

The birthplace of Galatra’s Industrial Revolution.

People from the west are seen as more approachable than northerners, but are similarly distrusted by most people.

Western names often include hyphens, which is a layover from the tribal days where parents would name their children after themselves. Example: name of father- Hof-Niko + name of mother- Olga-Kyvn = name of child- Kyvn-Hof (paternal) or Niko-Olga (maternal).

The western tribe was the first to be assumed into the northern tribe due to outside pressures of an enemy country as the only tribe that shared a boarder with them. The western boarder has shrunk since then.

Southern

The south is the brightest region of Galatra, known for bright colors and special grown plants, glowvers, that emit light.

The people are seen as loud, bold, and foul mouthed. More extravagant folk moved down south, making the region the entertainment capital of the kingdom.

Southern people are usually on two ends of a bell-curve; if someone is really short, they’re probably from the south, and if someone is really tall, they’re probably from the south. The south is not average.

Commonly found artisan goods are usually food related, like pastries, bread, or wine. This is because the south has the best access to the coast, and therefore first dips on imported goods. Other region’s businessmen are eager to wedge in the market.

The southern tribe fought the hardest against northern conquest. They were generally more physically skilled than other tribes, but when cut off from inland wood for fire or mines for coal, the tribe slowly succumbed.

Docks

Most Galatrians see the docks as synonymous to the south, but the region has a lot of cultural differences.

The south has a great emphasis on individuality, more family before community, while the docks generally try to fold community into a family structure. Neighbors are expected to act like aunts or uncles, where one family can watch another’s children with the expectation the favor will be returned eventually.

In a general sense, it’s like the western region and the southern region fused and allowed immigration.

The region runs up from the southern to the western coast of Galatra, and the people living there make trade in exporting and importing after the Industrial Revolution.

Home of Galatra’s first ship and fleet.

In the past, members of the southern tribe that were able to flee the northern siege ended up at the coast. When they arrived, they met a population of banished members of the enemy country. Since then the docks have become a rich culture of both nations.

Eastern

A highly distrusted population in Galatra, home of witchcraft and other such taboos

The east is a very quiet region, known for a mixture of infamous warriors, mages, and philosophers. Artisan goods from here are literature, paints, and talismans.

Purple is a very popular color in Galatra and the fibers that make the dye were grown almost exclusively in the eastern tribes before the Industrial Revolution. Trade was very beneficial to the east as purple dye was inexpensive to make locally. Through constant trade, northern tribes slowly developed walls around the eastern tribes, and only through habit did the eastern tribes become a part of the kingdom, officially becoming a Galatra region right before the first war.

Actually building a border around the eastern tribes was a difficult task. Most easterners could care less about the other regions and their developments. Frequently northern contractors building the border would be interrupted by an eastern family asking why they were building something on their gardens, or construction being undone overnight.

To this day the eastern border is fuzzy, and where exactly the region begins and ends depends on who you ask and when. A large sprawl of now-abandoned timber fields between the east and north further complicates matters.