Nonsense posted:

CMON $5.00 NOK LET ME DUMP THIS

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

go go go

Judakel posted:

Being working poor means I give no shits about a collapse and I can't "invest" in anything anyway so all this talk of what I should be holding is irrelevant. Hold these nutz in your mouth.

Paradoxish posted:

We're never going to just outright seize housing from investors

Mr Hootington posted:

The economy is like my 22 year old sentra. It has a million things wrong with it, but inexplicably runs. As soon as something breaks that will be that.

Otacon posted:

If anyone wants to order someone something cool for Christmas, put your orders in now.

Radirot posted:

hope the economy tanks. getting unemployment while qualifying for medicaid would be awesome.

VideoTapir posted:

Crush all private universities academia to rubble

UnknownTarget posted:

the reality is we've been flying on autopilot for years and there's no one up front

DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:

since jan. 6 i've grown to believe that it's basically impossible to avoid the bad outcome, and the goal should be to put structures into place that can survive it-- that means mutual aid, community solidarity, network-building and so on. so that's where my focus is. we know the bad poo poo is coming, but we also know that it will not last forever-- either it will destroy all of us on a level so complete that there's nothing we can meaningfully do to fight it, or it will be itself destroyed by its inherent contradictions. if the latter, then we need to preserve something worthwhile to rebuild on the other side.

Trabisnikof posted:

neither part of this is really true. Many of the major US metros had their streets designed pre-cars, and we adapted them to cars later.

just like we tore out functioning street car and trolly lines, made it illegal to walk on the same roads you’d walked on for years, and ripped apart communities we could redesign our cities again to be post-car

Rectal Death Adept posted:

All I know is that when there is a 2 mile traffic jam on a one lane road because 20,000 people have to wait for a cyclist driving 40 under the speed limit to valiantly and legally transverse their preferred route of travel

Cold on a Cob posted:

splifyphus posted:

it's more like one of those things that has enormous potential if wielded according to an emancipatory purpose, but in our current context just contributes to more of the insane stagnation of zombie capitalism. like walmart's centrally planned production and distribution chain. or the communist potential of big data.

Ice Phisherman posted:

Do you have a link to what he wrote?

quote:

Adolph Reed was the first writer to see who Obama was. In 1996, Reed wrote about him in The Village Voice:

“In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better.”

anime was right posted:

it makes getting video game info so hard lol

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

it's always awkward and weird when tankies come out of the woodwork to do their genocide denial in the doomsday econ thread

Rectal Death Adept posted:

people are going to complain about it forever but in some states for like 2-3 months you could get $800+ a week when your typical unemployment (+330 here) was augmented by the +600 federal dollars. Laws are never the same, i think NY had more generous laws than most as my limit is 13 weeks.

The fact that the poors got more than they usually do for a few months, one time, has psychically damaged all of these idiots on the left and right permanently. Until they die they will be talking about lazy people being paid more money to not work. I've heard it 30-40 times from my managers while they complain about not finding people.

I hadn't thought about it before but this could be a huge reason Trump lost the suburbs and therefore the election. The bespoke landlord and professional managerial class enraged that the workers were quitting and demanding higher salaries. THEM FREE DOLLARS KEEP THEM IN STEAK AND LOBSTER AND THERES NO INCENTIVE TO WORK!

Caithness posted:

I quit delivering pizza at the height of local new covid cases in January and didn’t collect any unemployment for 6 months. Now I’m delivering auto parts 25 hours a week for $300 before taxes but at least I drive a company car. I’m a fool

Egg Moron posted:

Onlyfans adopting a more conservative policy regarding sexual content is a small price to pay for the moral and social stability that will accompany the budding Taliban takeover of America

Paradoxish posted:

when do we get gig economy school buses

scary ghost dog posted:

this is nintendo, the only game dev that doesnt profit off of exploitation

scary ghost dog posted:

if you want to steal the game, steal it.

Judakel posted:

i used to be like you... yeah like you, i used to swear by nintendo systems, like a pathetic little boy. waiting for their underpowered lovely consoles to get games years after the fact, pretending to love their first party software no matter how boring it was. yeah i remember those days. i can almost see myself in those losers crying about an article on emulation. then i stopped buying games. all i do is pirate now, because the only ethical consumption under capitalism is theft. ciao, suckers!

Rutibex posted:

physical nintendo games never lose value. with the coming omega-inflation they will become a very good store of value

PIZZA.BAT posted:

wonder how many smaller companies will be bankrupt before their shipments can even make it to them

comedyblissoption posted:

https://twitter.com/Citizenroxanne/status/1448492647895769089
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEIqTBasNrQ

Mr Hootington posted:

What happens if you become unemployed again but used up all your unemployment during the covid year. Regional manufacturing numbers continue trend.

Rutibex posted:

we can't survive like they did in the fall of the USSR. all those people lived in government apartments. they could just chill out for a while a cope because no one was coming to evict them when the whole system crumbles

the US is a completely different and much worse situation. once the system collapses and people cant pay rents and mortgages all those entitled landlords are going to start doing violence