#it's the economy stupid

[morlock-holmes]

Man, YouTube just recommended the most obnoxiously complacent and poorly thought-out anti-AI-art video. Good job algorithm, I did hatewatch as much as I could stand because that's the cyberpunk future and also I guess the past because EM Forster predicted all of this.

In particular, there is this incredibly poorly thought out attempt to distinguish between the tedious parts of artistic work, which are okay to automate, and the non-tedious parts, which are immoral to automate.

There's also a distinction drawn, equally thoughtlessly, between the kinds of automation that destroy jobs and the kinds of automation that don't.

For example, the idea of an AI cutting a trailer together is bad, because it puts an editor out of a job. The cgi crowds in The Lord of The Rings are good, because they allow one animator to do jobs that once would have had to have been done by hundreds of extras or at the very least, way more animators.

I'm really sick of this bizarre half-luddism. I'm also DEEPLY annoyed by this muddled economic idea that people with tedious, unpleasant jobs like it when automation takes over for them, because I can assure you that they fucking don't.

Like, the whole thing stems from this quixotic attempt to be a pro-automation luddite, but luddism is a reaction to economic conditions.

If you sell skilled labor, you can get more money for it because the supply of laborers capable of producing what you produce is low. If there is a sudden flood of supply that stands to quite possibly lower the cost at which you can sell your labor.

This is an economic process, not a moral one. The guy fucking up his bladder working in the Amazon warehouse without using the bathroom all day is not going to be elated when Amazon announces he's being replaced by a robot, because it means the demand for his labor is getting lower relative to supply, which means the price at which he can sell it gets lower, which means it just got a lot fucking harder for him to pay his rent.

This has nothing whatsoever to do with whether Amazon warehouse work is spiritually fulfilling or not.

#ai art #it's the economy stupid

[isaacsapphire]

The more I think about it, the more I'm certain that there's been a sociopolitical "papering over" of a decades long economic decline. There's been a lot of borrowing again the future for decades, and eventually the piper is going to come calling. Fucking boomers.

#it's the economy stupid #original post

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

I think all the time about how, when the Simpsons premiered the year I was born, they were supposed to be lower middle class and now the idea of a family of five owning their own home on a single salary is not just aspirational but functionally out of reach for most people.

I'm on a wiki wormhole now. They bought a four bedroom, two bathroom house with an attic and basement, when Lisa was a baby. So like, probably they were under 25. When the show premiered, that would have been in 1980.

#The Simpsons #It's the economy stupid #post o' mine #clearing out the drafts

[jwood718]

I was looking back through some past photos and came across this image of George Romney’s Mrs. Trevor hanging at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.  It was a subject in a post on Jake Rambles n’at where it’s compared with a neighboring piece of art, but what got my attention in this current instance was the name on the title plate: Sarah Mellon Scaife.

The Scaife family has some old money, and Richard Mellon Scaife is very jealous of his, and upheld as a prime example of neoliberalism in the last 50 years.  But, like so many with wealth, the Scaifes like to bestow a little on the hoi-poloi through things like grants and foundations and donations to museums, ‘cause that’ll make up for capitalism, right?

#art! #Carnegie Museum of Art #it's the economy stupid

[wandering-spork]

The economy sucks, stupid

More jobs does not equal a great economy-

What’s so great about people working 2-3 jobs in order to survive?

#america #its the economy stupid #it's the economy stupid #economy #low income #working class #income inequality #united states #usa #billionaires #the economy sucks #poverty #pandemic #poem #poetry #thought #poets

[moeblob]

"Abduct is SUCH A strong word, pal! But yes."

#fe three houses #yuri leclerc #balthus von albrecht #bernadetta von varley #so i kept hearing someone say the hoes are in shambles and i tried to find out its origins after i started to draw this #and then google told me did you mean the vibe is in shambles so im like WHAT i mean MAYBE #so then it told me the economy was in shambles and I am just WHAT ???????????????????? you have got to be kidding me #i really thought the hoes were in shambles was a meme but its memeing on a meme i should have known #in other news hello i dont know most memes im really stupid and i dont watch enough to know the origins

[violent138]

Not that I think losing crime is bad, but it certainly would be interesting to explore the financial consequences to a massive city like Gotham where crime does pay for half or more (of everything) and drives the local economy, as partly illegal shipping for gangsters also moves legal products to buyers. Or that working for mobsters is stable enough to feed families.

As Batman succeeds and dismantles these power structures and pseudo industries, what happens to the city? Is there even a way to disentangle all of it from the corruption that runs it (seen when Jim Gordon has to hire cops investigated by internal affairs because they've all been investigated).

Would Wayne Enterprises just have to fill in all the gaps? WE shipping, catering, et cetera to replace lost jobs and income? Or would Batman have to reckon with the fact that he can't shut down everything? At least not as bluntly as he does.

#Maybe all his kids are in charge of running some aspect of criminal enterprises after bats is finished with them #batman #Dc comics #bruce wayne #Batfamily #Maybe a stupid thought as I know sparingly little about money aside from how drug money props up economies and contributes to spending powe #Gotham #Gotham city

[pianokantzart]

Someone made an angsty theory on the super mario bros movie tv tropes. That instead or their dad tbinkie hes bringing luigi down,that perhaps in some way he coddles luigi?

I dunno... Mario's Dad doesn't strike me as a coddler. If he coddled Luigi he wouldn't have been so blasé about Uncle Tony pulling food out of his hands during dinner, and wouldn't have had such an overwhelmingly positive reaction to Luigi helping Mario fist fight a giant fire breathing turtle monster.

Now, there is a chance he's softer on Luigi compared to Mario, but Mario's clearly the one leading the charge in their shaky business endeavors.

#askbox #anon #mario movie #mario headcanons #stupid is what stupid does but you can't deny Mario got really really lucky #quitting a steady job and starting his own business is kinda nuts tbh. At age 25 with very limited funds? In THIS economy?!? #I'm not big on Pio's choice of words but he's not wrong #super mario brothers #mario family

[notquitehuman-creations]

soup 👍

I think this perfect encapsulates how good it is:

#nqh irl #cooking #home cooking #making soup #soup #chicken noodle soup #food #tw food #wanna know something stupid #i made this bc my usual soup is hella expensive #seriously its 10$ for for cans of store bought #all of the ingredients for 10 cans worth of soup were 7$ #in this economy? #like ffs #anyway #good soup

[yume-fanfare]

i think one of the funniest parts about machina is that, as far as ive read, there's been at least 4 kinds of cryptocurrency in enstars and no one bats an eye at those

while things like the inconvenience (or impossibility) of conversion and how useless they are, there's little to no actual action against them and They Keep Inventing More

#ill list the currencies in a rb i think #ive been paying attention to their stupid economy are you proud of me akira #enstars #mar's midnight rambles #um i forgot to finish my second sentence. it was supposed to say that the inconveniences Have been discussed #but yea no action

[morlock-holmes]

One of the problems I have reading or listening to stuff that makes a complex argument is, I get fed up waiting for the answer to my specific question.

I'm like one of those dogs who, the second they see your hand stray near a leash, starts whining and pawing at the door, and as soon as you clip them in they're running full tilt towards the closed door, straining at the leash and whining and barking while you go, "For crying out loud give me a second to find where I put the dog poo bags."

So someone mentioned this long video about fanfiction and I am now 20 minutes in, straining at my leash, pawing at the door and barking "economics economics economics" over and over again.

I've gotten to the part where Sarah Z asserts that Fanfiction should be understood as a separate "medium" and this is to the point where, in dog terms, I'm just going to hurl myself through the front window and run off in a hail of glass shards.

I am deeply convinced that the only coherent definition of fanfiction is "Fiction made by someone who doesn't have the legal right to use the copyrighted aspects used in the work."

It only makes sense as a legal category. Every aspect she attributes to fanfiction is a very direct response to the fact that fanfic writers can't monetize their work in the way that people with proper copyright clearance can.

Like, as an example, she says that one of the reasons 50 Shades of Grey doesn't work so well is because it was written to be about Edward and Bella from Twilight, and so instead of properly introducing them as new characters it just kind of takes for granted that you know who they are and care about them.

Which raises the question: Well, if getting rid of the Twilight stuff makes the novels and films worse, why on earth did James and her editors do it?

The only reason I can think of is that licensing Twilight was simply not feasible, either because of outright refusal by copyright holders, and/or because the copyright holders asked too much money, and/or somebody wanted to keep film rights and the film rights to Twilight had already been sold, etc.

As I continue to listen while writing she is now comparing television writing to fanfiction, and all the links between television writing and fanfic writing that she enumerates are things that are clearly determined by the economics of television production and the economics of fanfiction production but she hasn't yet explicitly said it.

She keeps almost going to the door and then realizing she forgot her keys, it's driving me crazy here.

#fanfiction #art #it's the economy stupid #That was a clinton campaign meme im not calling sarah z stupid

[isaacsapphire]

Regarding Obama care could be but I don’t think it’s a guarantee. Economy is also tougher now and I have friends who also still have to live with their parents because this city is so damn expensive. For me being covered by my parents health insurance has been a huge relief since I am a full time student with various medical and mental issues that make living independently’ hard. I suppose it could? If by that you mean kids aren’t thinking about stuff like taxes and healthcare.. which they should lol. I was filing W9s etc when I was in high school getting a job. But I entirely agree that kids these days are not equipped to handle adulthood and it’s complexities, and it often drives me nuts the lack of critical thinking…

Oh, I don't think it's a bad thing that the cutoff age was extended! I was uninsured for years back in the pre-existing conditions era when that was gambling with your life, and that was not a good thing or an avoidable one for me during the Recession. But it was me legally being officially my own problem and sure did light a fire under my ass.

Living with parents after 18 seems to have become more and more common since the Recession. On the one hand, it's a return to a more traditional pattern, but on the other hand all the cultural stuff around young adults living with their parents AS ADULTS had died off in the mainstream so the infantilization follows unsurprisingly. I've definitely seen a lot of White white collar homeowner parents just... let their adult children stay indefinitely rent free or well below market rate, still treating them like teenagers and running interference for them while they behave like teenagers. Blue collar parents I know seem to be much more active in getting their kids eg. dealing with their own car insurance and taxes and jobs even if they still live at home. Blue collar Whites are closer to ethnic White traditions that included adult children living at home though, so idk if it's a class thing or a culture thing more.

Wouldn't be surprised if the trend isn't a cause as well as an effect of housing market changes by now; the borderline retirement age people I know who have bought or kept houses in the last decade bought and retained family sized houses despite their being at the stage to be empty nesters, and most of them had at least one adult child living with them who appeared to have no interest in getting a career and their own place.

Idk, it seems like the drop in horniness and increase in mental health issues could be seen as either a cause or an effect too.

#talkin bout my generation #oh geez i can tag asks now #housing #failure to launch #it's the economy stupid #obamacare #class in the US #suburbia

[sleepy-hyperfixations]

i live with my mum still at 20 bcs we usually have a great relationship, and bcs im unemployed and a disappointment.

#and also bcs the economy is shit and i wouldn't be able to afford a cardboard box #stupid rant is stupid #idk i just needed to vent #ignore this

[alalumin]

What if I don't want a serious career. What if I just want to hang out with my friends and family and travel and pet cats and see every weird bug and flower in the world. What then.

#listening to a lot of old greek anti capitalism songs sure isn't helping #which is fine i don't want those feelings to go away because the thought of work in the current economy is stupid and makes me nauseous #stavro has a thought

[ohsalome]

My favourite brand of westsplaining is how some Westies seem to think that because Ukrainians who don't serve and hadn't left the country keep going to work etc. then there can't be any war or it can't be that bad.

Like do you think everyone who wasn't on the front or trapped in the concentration camps could just take an extended holiday from life during the WW2 or something?

But you need to see their point of view. This wasn't shown in the Marvel movies. /s

In the meantime, here's a quote from unit commander in the 68th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Pavlo Vysebaba.

"We have to understand that a strong frontline is impossible without a strong support, because the army needs to be supplied. According to the calculations of international organizations, to fully supplt one soldier you need 12 civilian taxpayers.

Secondly, I heard a lot of similar complaints even when I hadn't been drafted yet, when I was waiting for my turn: "Why aren't you at the military registration and enlistment office? Why are you here? Why are you in civilian life?". Friends, if you even do the math, only one in ten or even one in fifteen men can be in the army. That is, one man in the army and 10-15 men in the rear, because they need to work. They need to sow bread, they need to keep factories running. There are many components of the economy that need to be provided.

We can win only as a joint mechanism, as a people".

#response #this idea is stupid if you stop to think about it at least for a minute #do soldiers not need food? clothes? medicine? #do you think that an entire country's economy can be put on pause? #what about children? you want to send them to trenches too? #come on how stupid do you have to be (rhetorical question)

[brandinotbroke]

people are now buying their sims games a SECOND time just to switch from ea app to steam……..

#please I swear to god just pirate the games #like I‘m not even joking #a large portion of this community tends to be so stupid sometimes i cannot handle it anymore #is there a gaming related stockholm syndrome because this isn‘t healthy #where do you guys even get the money from #in this economy???