#explaining economics to me

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

literally the ENTIRE VIBE of this bit just feels like listening to your dumbass bestie thoroughly explain the most nonsensical shit about their latest bad decision of a crush I need to give vespula financial compensation

#it feels like one of those 'girly girl explains an economic concept' tiktoks #jaskier #mine #the witcher #witcher #to be clear im the dumbass bestie its me. not my actual bestie they're a genius i love them

[weedle-testaburger]

there's this kind of youtuber i lowkey really hate who aren't overt bigots or anything but just do this thing where they seem to try stupidly hard to look for reasons to hate media that just so happens to have a lot of marginalised rep in it. especially if it has a thematic point that would involve acknowledging politics

#my favourite example of that (as in i actually find it funny not it annoys me) #is cinemasins complaining the train in snowpiercer and the guy who wants the protagonist's eyes in get out don't make sense #like. they don't have to be explained in the story the point is they're a commentary on socio economic injustices and racism #stories aren't logic puzzles they're parables and if you read them as being logic puzzles you're doing it wrong #and spoiling a lot of really profound media for yourself #having said that the youtubers i hate most are reactionary cunts like nerdrotic critical drinker or turkey tom #they should be punched every time they upload until they fuck off #and the most annoying kind of youtubers (not hatable but annoying) are the ones who try to argue that mainstream media #which is trying to be diverse and progressive is Bad Actually (verilybitchie is awful for that and she doesn't like pan people #so that put me off her pretty quickly which is a shame bc some of her videos and topics are interesting)

[unopenablebox]

girlfriend got all surprised at me for describing new york as being "part of new england" like any reasonable person wouldn't put it in there

#i don't care even slightly about the formal definition of england #explain to me how new york is somehow supposed to not be culturally and economically contiguous with massachusetts ct ri and vermont #and. more importantly. explain to me why i a chicagoan should possibly care about the distinctions you people draw #in this postage stamp sized region where everything is miniature #how could you possibly tell nyc isn't in new england. where did you get an electron microscope that would let you see the border

[sergeifyodorov]

1991 sketches in a late night class

#me: I'll take economics as a third year post breakdown bird course #also me *is surprised when the prof takes 3 hours explaining things like 'the scientific method'* #anyhway. #sergei fedorov #steve yzerman #the cody art tag

[vraska-theunseen]

i keep dismissing societal concepts i think are silly in my head and so i go around being like we made this up it's so pointless... abt like copyright law or whatever but then i kind of lock myself in an echo chamber of my own brain where i go around thinking stuff and then i have a conversation with a friend where i find out they put weight in [concept] i've dismissed like they're talking about how IQ is real and measurable and important for statistics and im like WHAT THE HELL...

#ive gotta talk to people more i did learn from that conversation a little bit #i think we had fundamentally different points that were flying past each other like they were saying iq is real and it's valuable for #statistics bc it's something that u can take over and over at different times and get the same result and therefore it can be solidly #extrapolated for different demographics and then that can be attributed to different things like chemical spills or economic inequality or #whatever and i wasn't saying that wasn't true but i was more arguing that it's silly the weight people give it outside of a metric of #statistics like the way people who i've talked to give value to it in real life is stupid bc i've talked to several people who have been #like oh you're so smart that makes me feel bad and im like it means nothing its just a percentage on a test everyone has different #aptitudes for things and that's what's meaningful out in the real world barring its usefulness in statistics #i also wasn't good at explaining myself i didn't really say what i said above i said like half of it poorly #alex talks

[mossflower]

loki season two has me screaming crying throwing up trying not to get dragged back into the mcu trenches

#i am stronger than this. i am better than this!! #by the trenches i mean consuming fanfiction at an unhealthy rate. fourteen year old me was insane i think i was on ao3 more than i slept #that’s not exaggeration. i was getting four hours of sleep on school nights and frequently went to bed at 5am on weekends #it is ONE good story. one. literally not worth it. i don’t even care about ninety percent of the mcu characters #i will ignore the little voice in my head reminding of the sheer amount of fanfiction. this was my pre-tumblr days #so my fandom interaction was like. youtube and ao3. maybe instagram posts sometimes. it was so much fun like. zero drama zero discourse #i was honestly living my best life. got less interested when i joined tumblr and went full doctor who mode #and after endgame i watched i think wandavision and loki and that was it. just didnt care anymore lol #i know exactly why this is happening tho. currently the thing i am insane about is my own damn project. which i am in the process of writin #for obvious reasons no fandom there. bc it lives in my mind twenty four fucking seven #i do wonder if i’m kind of growing away from fandom anyway? the closest i’ve got since toh ended was homestuck tbh #i want to feel obsessed with something again!! everything i’m into now - tma tlt and the like - i love them #but it doesnt hit like it used to. i don’t know it’s hard to explain #like video essays that i would have loved a few years ago!! the hour long ones about representation and queer media #they just irritate me now! i got halfway through one last week and had to bail i just could not care less #how did 2020 social media have me convinced that x character being gay was super important politically economically socially etc #ofc the answer is that i was a baby lesbian getting even less social interaction than normal #like representation is important obviously but also. sometimes it was not that deep #i don’t know if i’m making sense tbh but you get my drift #morganposting

[bright-and-burning]

sunday scaries so bad im logging into google calendar on my phone to double check i can wfh if i wake up late. except i just discovered im the only junior staff member (and really only researcher bc it’s just me and the head of research) on a call tomorrow with several important people from a diff department and a meeting title that kind of implies i will be explaining this entire research project to them so. that’s cool (<- is sweating)

#it is actually cool but like. literally three other people also worked heavy duty on this #including two ASSOCIATES!! why are they not on this call why am EYE explaining economic research i just write code #anyways. might die. might get promoted (this is half a joke half not a joke) #OK GOODNIGHT HOPEFULLY. if i’m back in thirty minutes nobody judge me too bad

[mythtiide]

adlers so hot im gonna pass out

#txt #i need him to explain the economic history of the nation to me

[essektheylyss]

got clocked right off the bat by a coworker as "really into mushrooms" and I'm still reeling from it, frankly

#we were talking about nonfiction books! and she'd read and really liked braiding sweetgrass! #and she's saying 'I really liked that it was so readable and it was about a lot of different concepts integrated together' #and I was like 'oh you should try the mushroom at the end of the world by anna tsing' #and start explaining the concept and I don't think I even really went into much detail about the mushroom itself??? #just like. why it is the subject of this book and how it exemplifies the interconnectivity of environment and economics and ecology #AND OUT OF NOWHERE she's just 'I'm sensing you're really into mushrooms' #my boss fucking lost it cuz I was like 'HELLO??? MA'AM??? HOW DID YOU JUST READ ME LIKE THIS' #anyway it did remind me I wanna finish reading what a mushroom lives for which is the second book from tsing's research group #like I DIDN'T recommend entangled life cuz it was more specific and less about interconnectivity! HELLO #I have QUESTIONS LMFAO #really bewildered particularly cuz my sister thought I was only into mushrooms after I discovered I wasn't allergic to all of them #she was like 'yanno you could've just had mushrooms as a vibe before' and I was like ??? I DID??? #'virtually every online friend I have associates mushrooms with me HOW have you missed this girl' #and meanwhile a coworker I've only talked to a couple times in ten minute increments identified this INSTANTLY #WHAT

[kunikida-simp]

I just stole 10 euro from my 8 year old brother after he asked me if I can spell " hot chocolate". Sometimes my genius frightens me.

#im a whole ten years older than him #and yet #i still do this shit #now im explaining to my mom why this was a fair exchange of goods & services #and not him gambling #on me #“its simple economics mom its not my fault your son doesn't know that im quite on the expensive side of the market ” #“Bᵤₜ ᵤ ᵣ ᵣₒbbᵢₙg ₕᵢₘ” #“HE WILL KNOW HOW TO INVEST RESPONSIBILY CUZ OF ME I SHOULD BE THANKED” #also he can spend his birthday money as he see fit. its non of my business

[apleasurableillusion]

There’s a post floating around that is like, even if there were no billionaires, capitalism is bad and we should work to end it. But the post doesn’t really provide any reason it’s bad?

Look, unchecked capitalism has all sorts of negative consequences, but capitalism as an economic system has done more for raising standards of living than any other system. It’s a rising tide raises all boats, where yes, certain individuals are making more than anyone wants or needs but also there’s more to go around for society generally.

You can argue all you want that we need more checks on the system, but if you want to tell me the system is bad, I’m going to need you to tell me what system you’re suggesting and why it doesn’t have the same flaws. Like communism absolutely still leads to resource heavy extraction that will destroy the environment if there are no checks.

#it’s insane to me I keep seeing it reblogged with no criticism #this is not me saying your economic ideas are bad #this is me saying explain what they are

[svyatoiy]

activity will likely be non-existent until friday! on top of entering the economics section of my subjects, i've also got assignments due at the end of the week. see y'all on the other side 🥴

#❴ ❊⋄˚ ˒ — 𝔦𝔳. ⊰ ooc. emotionally unstable yeehaw. #i hate economics so much so if anyone would like to do all my readings for me and then explain it to me like i'm a baby i'd appreciate it!!

[foxcassius]

last night i was talking about unions and strikes with jiwon and he was like "well that never works in korea because the bosses just say they can replace you" and i was like yeah i understand the basics of trying to bust a union and break a strike the whole question is like. can they actually do that with the shrinking of the working-age group in korea as it stands and he was like "doesnt matter if they can, thats what they say" and i was like Yeah Okay I Know They Say That So Are We Going To Educate The Working Class And Put The Power In Their Hands Or Just Pretend Like Fearmongering Is Impossible To Beat

#jiwon and i share a lot of views politically and stuff but sometimes he spends an extremely long time playing devils advocate #for no reason #or acting like i dont understand the basics of economics and politics and explaining things i already know #so it takes a while for him to clearly say what he thinks is best bc first he has to say every thing people say in opposition to it #idk why we always talk abt politics though it makes me sleepy 10 times faster #t

[hella1975]

me reading through your econ asks and not absorbing ANY of it <3

now imagine how i feel doing the exact same thing <3

#economics will really go 'im gonna explain an actually pretty bog-standard concept in the most horrifically complex way imaginable' #most of my time is spent not actually revising but instead parsing through my lecture slides #trying to figure out why it took my bitch of a professor FOUR SLIDE to explain SUPPLY AND DEMAND #ask #hella goes to uni #exam is in t-3 hours wish me luck

[raskies456]

my hot take of the day is that I think people who have never taken a single econ class should keep that fact in mind when they talk about economics

#like this isn’t to say you shouldn’t critique economic systems or propose alternatives etc etc #or that people who claim to know economics are unbiased or can’t be wrong (bc let’s be honest most of them don’t know Econ either) #my point is that if all you know about economics is based on tweets you’ve read you aren’t an expert in economic theory #you can def talk about it and ask questions and voice concerns but like. be aware you don’t know that much on the topic? #and don’t treat people trying to explain stuff to you as horrible monsters using big words to confuse you #if people talked about physics the way they talked about econ they’d be posting stuff like #’did you know gravity crushes people???? we need to go to space now’ #I mean. some people do talk that way about physics #but a Lot of people talk that way about Econ #and not everyone trying to explain stuff is your enemy #bc if you do know econ you DO know why the current system is bad #456 words #vaguepost #tagging vaguepost bc it was a specific post I saw that reminded me but it’s also v much a general trend #yes it was the Swiss chocolate post like yes the relationship between Europe and SA is incredibly exploitative #no one said it wasn’t #all that happened was that someone said hey the issue here is the exploitation but there’s nothing inherently bad #about one country importing stuff from another country and using it to manufacture stuff #bc it sounded like op thought that was the issue instead of the actual exploitative part #and wow people got mad #however this is also about that post that’s like ‘the fed is literally trying to engineer a recession we should use price controls’ #and every other post

[oatbugs]

why is the boy im like almost in love w not in love w the boy who is in love w him and why am i crying about that . what the fuck is wrong w me what the fuck is wrong w me what the fuck is wrong w me

#they taught me how to play pool for the 4th time last night #had lots of shots #like at least 12 #i was only tipsy . my alcohol tolerance id economically bad for me #having a panic attack need to study my first exam is tomorrow i wanna kiss him no i dont yes i do yes i do yes i do #the thing is i (platonically) love the second boy (who is in love w him) more than i care abt any romantic feelings towards him #so its like heartbreaking that . the way he feels is going to be unreciprocated but also it feels like smth more and i dont know #personal #ok google how do i tell hom i miss holding his hand xx ♡ #he holds my hand sometimes but like . not properly idk how to explain but it still just feels . hmm . fluttery