But seriously you should learn economics. It’s so fucked up when you’re looking at it with class consciousness.
So much of it feels downright...esoteric at times, like a bunch of magical rules and spells that are completely arbitrary and mysterious. The sheer amount of bending over backwards economics do to try and explain away stuff like the labour theory of value is astonishing.
Yea, you’ve just got to ignore all that stuff and look at it through a materialistic lens; look at how it’s used in accounting and business.
Like "perfect competition" 😂. Tbf i think even M. Friedman debunked perfect competition.
On purely economic lens, dumping toxic waste into rivers is more efficient than looking for alternatives.
Ok, this is just wrong in so many ways. An "economic lens" would call this a tragedy of the commons if it's legal in that society and attempt to calculate the damage through various means. Which would make the dumping far more expensive than proper disposal.
If you want to say from a micro economic perspective, considering only maximizing profit for the individual firm, ya. Economics isn't a blanket term for corporate capitalism.
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Biden got those rail workers their sick leave. Democrats are just too quiet about their achievements.
I don't get it.
It's just liberal bait, best to ignore them.
When rail unions were preparing for a potential strike, Biden made it illegal for them to do so.
Rail unions wanted to strike for better benefits, vacation time most importantly as the corporations had them working a lot of hours with virtually no paid time off. Part of 'efficiency' in the pursuit of profit, running as much freight, with as few train engines and workers also means greater wear on the infrastructure and less maintenance work being done. All this contributes to the more regular occurrence of accidents, some incredibly damaging to public health and the environment.
They got some minor benefit increases, but i don't believe much, if anything, related to their main complaints. And now they have no real recourse. The only credit Biden and the democrats should get is from their capitalist sponsors.
So many of you out here pushing this bullshit now. Bidens most hypocritical anti-labor move, and you want to pretend getting them a few sick days makes it ok. Just. Stop.
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