If I really wanted to talk shit about economics, I would point out that the popular deployment of economic theory relies upon a fetishization of “objectivity” such that the lived experience of the subjects under discussion is rendered marginal.

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Listen, moderators. When you inevitably flag this post, I want you to use Memory Alpha, or the Babylon 5 wikia, to confirm that I am doing a bit. None of these places are real. None of these threats are actionable.

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All these economists should be banished to the Vault of Eternal Destitution. Send their bloodless quant asses to za’ha’dum. Cast them into the river of the damned and set a guard of the honorless dead on the shores to kick them the fuck back in.

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I found “the $30k isn’t life changing thread” and I’m thinking shutting down economics isn’t enough: we need to burn the whole field to the ground, salt the fucking earth, and erect warning placards so that future generations avoid the poisoned ground the field stood on.

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I've been rewatching The Dropout and it's very funny how every scene with George Schultz someone is like, "how could he possibly fall in with a con-artist?" and every time it makes me yell at the screen, "He worked for Richard Nixon!"

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