#economic productivity

[worldhabitatday]

Closing Ceremony of the Global Observance of World Habitat Day 2023.

Cities all over the world have already embarked on this journey through implementing various models.

Closing Ceremony of the Global Observance of World Habitat Day 2023

[gothhabiba]

I saw this whole long thread of people hand-wringing about "anti-intellectuals" on tiktok and how scary it is that they're believing sourceless claims other people on tiktok tell them, because they claim they have the same chance of being correct as anything that "science says."

and said hand-wringers were waxing poetic about the scientific method and replicability and how everything that's published in an academic journal is guaranteed to be true and correct because of a little thing called peer review whereby scientists (naturally a petty and pedantic people) are encouraged to tear each other's conclusions apart.

and I just have to say. if you believe (in the midst of a major replicability crisis amongst scientific journals, no less) that everything published in a scientific journal is de facto factual or trustworthy, and if you believe that peer review of all things is a process that is guaranteed to prevent papers with anything from flaws in experimental design to full-blown fraud from going to print (as if publishers don't have a literal profit motive to publish studies that yield novel, startling conclusions),

then you are 100% as "anti-intellectual," foolish, & averse to thinking for yourself as the tiktokers you're making fun of. actually I think I like you less. at least their ideas might be bizarre enough to be interesting

[violent138]

Companies that hire Gotham grads: "What do you mean you finished all your work? Didn't I just give it to you?"

Gothamite: "Oh it was easy, it's all in the report. If you have any more questions, I'll be in the break room, testing out the new explosive I made while I was waiting."

Manager: "Yeah sure, you've earned a brea-- wait what?"

[your-average-teenage-mess]

Okay, so a few months ago, I saw someone claiming that since some animals were seen engaging in some forms of trade, that must mean that trade is essential to humanity, and therefore it's impossible to realistically imagine a society in which people can live without the concept of ownership or exchange, and instead rely on the community to support them unconditionally.

Now, I am not a communist. I don't think that getting rid of the concept of ownership is a good or (and this is the important part) practical idea. I don't think our society can realistically get there in any of the upcoming centuries, it might drift into a non-capitalistic economic system, in fact it's pretty likey, but the specific model of communism probably isn't gonna happen. Also the idea of relying on collective action to achieve anything does have its own flaws- if that is your only system, there is a tendency to drift towards a model that allows the collective to throw out anyone who disagrees. I'm personally more of a socialist, and even that is just in the idealistic sense, practically I'm a social democrat. However.

Can we aknowlage that this is an appeal to nature? Animals might have not been doing communism, but they haven't really been doing capitalism either. The idea of a given individual or organization owning the jobs of other people is not some kind of essential truth of nature, it's just as much of a man-made model to push trade into this specific logical extreme that you could deduce from it (which again, isn't the only one, some models of socialism are arguably better representations of some ideas of "the free market" than what we have right now) as much as it is to try and replace it with communal support. We are, in fact, capable of developing models that are better AND more complex than the ones you get after stripping civilization out of all cultural power and letting people figure out a power structure out of chaos, you KNOW that, right?

[kimblestudies]

january 22, monday

-> it hasn't stopped raining all week. forced myself to take a lot of government and economics notes.

🎧the metamorphosis, franz kafka

[the-0ther-mother]

25/100 days of productivity

Tuesday, 15 October, 2024

Today was mostly the result of me being sleep deprived. I was just sooo sleepy the whole day.

🪐 went to my Microeconomics lecture

🪐 went to the library

Honestly, the desire to wear cute autumnal outfits is the only thing getting me out of my bed and carrying me through the day these days.

🪐 finished my notes for microeconomics ch. 2

🪐 finished my notes for calculus ch.1.2

🪐 finished my notes for calculus ch.1.3

So, this week will be spent catching up on my last week's material and all the homework. It's a lot but I'll manage. I'm really excited about my micro notes though. I'm going to print them out tomorrow. They'll be very useful.

I've missed two days of my Italian lesson on Duolingo though :(

Breathe in and out. Don't lose track of the big picture.

Arrivederci <3

[alwaysbewoke]

[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.

[afriblaq]

Flash Mob of 150+ Shuts Down Store with Epic Buyout! You Won’t Believe Her Reaction! ...

* Watch as over 150 supporters unite to save The Sistah Shop in Atlanta! In this incredible video, we document the flash mob organized by Nehemiah Davis and David Shands to support a Black woman-owned business that was on the brink of closing. Owner Aisha Taylor Issah was overwhelmed with emotion when she discovered the surprise event while at church, praying for a miracle. This community effort resulted in more than $14,000 in sales—setting a new record for the shop and giving it a much-needed financial boost to cover rent, payroll, and more. Witness how the power of community and entrepreneurship came together to keep this vital retail space alive for over 100 Black women-owned brands.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[bekaterrier]

Getting today's BIPOCtober shoutout done a little earlier! This one is for @stormfireproductions' Kalila Stormfire's Economical Magick Services. I started listening to KSEMS last week to continue expanding my list of BIPOC-created shows, and I am IN LOVE.

Created by Lisette Alvarez, KSEMS is about a witch who has to juggle complex clients and an anonymous critic leaving terrible online reviews seemingly hellbent on ruining her magic business, which she started up after a controversial fallout with her coven. There are goddesses, curses, astral projection, and fae, just to name a few things. Despite the fantastical, the show does not shy away from some of the real world problems of poverty, racism, and healthcare experienced by people of color and queer folks.

KSEMS is a complete series with three seasons. Stormfire Productions will soon be releasing a new show called HAVANA SYNDROME, with a prequel documentary currently releasing.

The KSEMS cover art gave me the opportunity to play around with a new wire colour I just acquired - white! I love how it stands out against the dark beads.

[worldhabitatday]

For developing training programmes that promote job creation and improve economic productivity in cities.

Scroll of honour Award 2023 winner - Mexico.

Fundación ProEmpleo was born as a response to the unemployment and instability kicked off by the economic crisis 1994 in Mexico. Through training and consulting programs, they promote economic activities like job creation, entrepreneurship, formalization, and the growth of microenterprises. ProEmpleo is, in Mexico, a reference in promoting the culture of entrepreneurship as a dignified and desirable way of life that allows people to recognize and exercise their human rights to create better environments. ProEmpleo empowers people through knowledge to obtain a broader vision in the search for their inclusion in the productive world and mo3vates them to be community leaders and future entrepreneurs.

Fundación Pro Empleo Productivo A,C., from Mexico City..

[probablyasocialecologist]

The problem with using value-added as a proxy for productivity is that value-added represents a combination of output (tangible and intangible) and prices/wages. ‘Productive’ employment in the tertiary sector, for instance, is as much a reflection of wage rates in that sector as any notion of productive output per se (for example, what is the output of a lawyer or a bureaucrat?) Hence, the use of value-added as a shorthand for productivity leads to absurd logical implications, such as the suggestion that a barber in the United States is 30 or more times more productive than a barber in India even though they both ‘produce’ the same number of haircuts per hour (according to the tastes and expectations of their clients), simply because the wage of the barber in the United States is 30 or more times higher. Or else, within the United States, that the ‘productivity’ of a lawyer is 20 times higher than that of a barber. The lawyer’s labour is certainly more valued than the barber’s, whether or not for good reason, but this has little to do with productivity (unless we consider that the power to leverage higher value for one’s labour is, in itself, a form of productivity). In other words, much of what we are picking up in most conventional measures of productivity actually amounts to price or wage differences, not actual effort or output, especially in economies that are increasingly based on services.

Andrew M. Fischer, Beware the Fallacy of Productivity Reductionism

[welcometoteyvat]

as a chinese person yall need to stop blaming the ccp for everything (read: hoyo is capable of making colorist design decisions and not everything is a result of censorship pls)

[ursylaz]

23.04.2024

3/100 days of productivity! It rained the whole day today. Plus I got my period sooo was in bed most of the day. Managed to get some boring tasks done like light cleaning and organizing. I did not managed to work on my academic tasks, so I am in my bed doing some last min studying before going to bed. As you can see had a bit too much coffee, I'll be up for a while :')

[kimblestudies]

03.24

this weekend :

-> laplace transforms homework

-> studied ap macro economics material

-> ap gov unit 4 review

-> made bread for the first time

-> went to two (2) parties, completely opposite in vibes

🎧currently reading: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari