notable that sky, the one NB among the group, cannot conceive that they just might be Quite Personally Lucky in their circumstances. whole buncha motherfuckers talking about means and averages while refusing to understand themselves as outliers on the graphs

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couldn't get this shit out of my head and another thought keeps pressing in, which is that with these types there's a lot of "because we can't quantify stress, anxiety, panic, and even trauma on a chart, it's not real and it doesn't matter"

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"you and many others not knowing how you're going to pay for rent and food is merely one data point among many others on a chart, me being made fun of in a cartoon is existential" just... y'know.

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that they all lost their minds, aghast and shocked about a cartoon ribbing them a bit awhile back but are constantly going "yeah yeah whatever you're in permanent poverty, sucks for you but who cares let's talk about medians" to people in material distress is kinda. well, it's certainly something.

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caught wind of the Discourse Du Jour today (i had all fuckers blocked beforehand so no wonder i didn't see it) and y'know beyond all matters of economics studies, there's the simple q of "do economists know how to talk to people suffering without being an asshole" and the answer largely being "no"

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