a lib who got lost and wandered into hexbear once did the “read a book” thing about China, so I asked them what book they recommended and they recommended a completely unrelated novel and asserted they just meant read any book, not a non-fiction book about China
lmao this was very funny
I wish I could remember what book it was, I think it was one of the english literature “classics”, the kind of thing you recommend without reading when you’re desperate to sound smart and well read
So it could have been any George Orwell novel.
It could have been but I recall it was completely unrelated in any way, it was genuinely like Dickens or something
What the Dickens!?
yeah it was more along dickens than orwell, but i dont think dickens is correct either
Uhh, just a little book called… the bible
Still better than “Black Book of Communism” or “Mein Kampf”.
The only value whatsoever to my business administration degree is using it as a middle finger when someone tells me to learn basic economics. I did and had a perfect GPA for that one because it was stupid baby shit for stupid shitting babies.
Revenue - Expenses = Profits
Be sure to note this for the test.
I think it was one of my macroeconomics classes that was entirely based around Econotopia, a country with an apple economy.
Every econ class I had existed to analyze data in a vacuum, I assume because trying to analyze real economic data using what we were taught would have yielded literally nothing of use
Or worse, radicalized you to reject neoliberalism.
It felt like a protestant church with arbitrary numbers instead of arbitrary bible verses. I’m not at all joking when I say that four months of my life was dedicated to an apple economy that I would have thought was stupid as a child. The COVID supply shocks were happening, the most fascinating event in political economy I’ve seen in my lifetime, and there wasn’t a single word about it from the preacher. We just learned more neat little apple facts that didn’t line up with the things his students were experiencing and more justifications for why the apple facts are as real as physics. I had to get stoned before it just to not care about being insulted.
I taught a Calculus for Business course once. The amount of times I had to remind business students of this very simple, nearly self-evident formula was pretty shocking. I would have thought that a sophomore in an undergrad business program would have no problem remembering that profit = revenue - cost, but no, apparently that was a tricky one that needed quite a few reminders.
Kind of funny being lectured “didn’t you learn communism bad in middle school” by the bottom 10% of any given graduating class.
You’re interacting with posers; REAL chuds would recommend Evola or some schlock in that vein (of course they won’t have read it either but that is a given).
Those chuds fancy themselves “libertarian”.
The chuds that yell that at me are usually the type with an American flag or bald eagle profile pic and already had fully crystallized worldviews before they had a chance to learn about Ayn Rand from a friend in 9th grade
Libertarians usually do not recommend Evola
Family friend of mine is a reformed randite, just got him to read state and rev in his 40s. Miracles do happen
My favourite is “move to China!”
And I go “Yes I want to”
They get all shocked
I think it’d be a lot better than here, I just worry about myself being queer there. I hear they’re not exactly the best on that front, but really neither is the US, so there’s that too.
The main difference is China is getting better whereas the US is getting worse. There are places in China more socially progressive in that aspect than others, Chengdu is famous for being very queer.
I’m sure you could find a subculture there
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I’ve gotten Basic Economice by Sowell, crank that he is, in response to this very question.
Oh hey I read this recently (know thine enemy and all that). It’s actually laugh-out-loud hilarious. He literally says at one point that price gouging is a good thing during natural disasters, because otherwise no one would be incentivised to deliver humanitarian supplies
Yep! I also checked it out a bit and yea, you’re spot-on.
John Stossel-thought
The more I hear about it the more I wonder how no one seems to have thought of writing an article or a video dunking on how stupid and ridiculous neo-liberal economic theories are yet.
The system justifies itself: they train and pay thousands of economists to believe their own hype, and make it so that those economists are the only “authoritative” sources, and all the voices of sanity are drowned out.
Still, you would think at least one communist somewhere would have written a debunking of modern vulgar economics by now, especially given the fact that with how obviously nonsensical neoclassic economics is, it’s probably the weakest pillar of the modern liberal ideology and the easiest to attack for Marxists.
I’m sure there are plenty of books attacking neoclassic economics, but I’m not really familiar with the video content in this space. Maybe some others have suggestions. @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net is there anything you might know of/on TankieTube?
As far as I know there is this one: Why the Labor Theory of Value is Correct - Criticism of Marshall’s
And kind of this one: guide to marxist economics introduction episode in which thefinnishbolshevik briefly talk about what Marx called vulgar economics.
And that’s about it for criticism from a Marxist perspective I think.
Nice. You’ve clearly put in more hours in the posting trenches than me though.
What are the chances they panicked and googled “basic economics” two seconds prior?
Honestly pretty low, they seemed too committed to the bit.
The Road to Serfdom by Hayek
What would a wealthy celeb like Salma Hayek know about serfdom? /j
Animal Farm
Gulag Archipelagoby George Oh Well and Alexander Soldier Nixon
During the Bush years someone suggested I start with “the historian Ann Coulter.”
I’d crash out
So glad we only focus on serious and nominatively-deterministic historians now, like Samantha Power and Robert Conquest.
Well she’s history.
So its close.
Clearly they meant “Arguing with Idiots” by Glenn Beck
18·17 days agoAyaguing with idiots.
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I see this joke every time someone plays loose with Cyrillic alphabets, but I still love it.
He also did a “Arguing With Socialists” that we should lampoon some time…
Oooo I didn’t know about that one! I skimmed through this one a bunch as a kid because we had it at our house. There’s some unintentional comedy gold in them both I’m sure
Sonic’s Spacetime Adventure
The Prisoner of Azkaban
That’s what a lib might say. If a chud ever were to reply, I imagine it would be some garbage by Ben Shapiro called Why the Left Hates Logic that gets laughed at in a Chapo’s reading series.
I think the Chapos are the only people who buy these books
Other than the donors who buy them by the forklift to inflate sales, and the dads who buy them as gifts for other dads to put on a shelf
Excuse you, but dads don’t buy gifts for other dads. That would be gay.
one of the bill o’reilly books
lmao one time had a white guy tell me to read Thomas Sowell.
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