• A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    6·
    11 hours ago

    Austerity is a fucking lie. Yet all over the globe people believe it, even think it makes them an economy whizz to have opinions on how to solve it.

  • bitteroldcoot@piefed.socialEnglish
    22·
    18 hours ago

    The point you’re missing is that at the weapons makers have the profit margins to bribe trump and the republicans. If the poor people want their needs met, they are going to have to make a more substantive monetary offering. The president is too busy to consider something so insubstantial as the needs of the voters, unless it comes engraved on bars of gold. And yes that’s “bars” plural.

    • Angrydeuce@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Theres a reason there are DoD contractors in all US states and territories. That way any congressperson that comes out against the war machine gets primaried due to being a “job killer” in their home district/state.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      9·
      17 hours ago

      The point you’re missing is that at the weapons makers have the profit margins to bribe trump and the republicans

      I very much am not. I’m fully aware of how corrupt the political system already was BEFORE the Mango Mussolini and his fascist kakistocracy took it to 11.

      If the poor people want their needs met, they are going to have to make a more substantive monetary offering.

      Nice one! 😁🤜🏼

      The president is people in control of all parts of the government as well as the leadership of the SUPPOSED opposition party are too busy to consider something so insubstantial as the needs of the voters

      Fixed it for you

      unless it comes engraved on bars of gold

      Or toilets fashioned from the same material, in the case of the turd currently stinking up the oval office.

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
    9·
    18 hours ago

    Wealth gaps are driven by governments benefitting the wealthiest over everyone else. They do this, as they themselves are chasing ratings from international ratings agencies.

    So they splurge on the biggest companies the country has, giving them a golden road to more wealth in the hopes GDP or some other stat will go up (and then the country’s rating).

    Ratings agencies themselves have to change in order to distinguish healthy managed degrowth, from recession. The importance of tackling climate change and secure the future by doing less. Or doing the same with better use of resources.

    Whilst printing money or digitally creating it, may be infinite, that’s not what the ratings agencies believe - they’re all neo liberal. We all need to understand climate change and massive wealth disparity are a national security and existential threat.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      10·
      17 hours ago

      Wealth gaps are driven by governments benefitting the wealthiest over everyone else

      EXACTLY.

      They do this, as they themselves are chasing ratings from international ratings agencies.

      And legal (as well as some illegal) bribes for themselves.

      Ratings agencies themselves have to change in order to distinguish healthy managed degrowth, from recession

      Damn right. The best time for the world’s richest governments to stop chasing infinite growth for the haves achieved partially by enforcing artificial scarcity for the have nots was decades ago, but right now would also be excellent.

      The importance of tackling climate change and secure the future by doing less. Or doing the same with better use of resources.

      Yep. A combination of drastically reduced consumption by ending planned obsolescence, transitioning away from all uses of fossil fuels, and diverting resources away from the dragon hoards of billionaires and predatory corporations towards renewable energy, poverty alleviation, public education, and worldwide universal healthcare would make almost literally everything exponentially better.

      We all need to understand climate change and massive wealth disparity are a national security and existential threat.