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[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Economics filled the void in society vacated by religion after the Enlightenment.

A mechanism of control, conjured by the ruling class, imposed indiscriminately upon the masses, protected from scrutiny, and justified by arbitrary, curated rules.

  • Economists are its priests.
  • Banks its churches.
  • Finance its mythology.
  • GDP its God.
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

"Feudal lords were the masters of feudalism. Capitalists, however, aren’t the masters of capitalism. They are merely the high priests of capitalism. The master of capitalism is Capital itself."

-Roderic Day, Why Marxism?

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Economics can be fixed if the rights of future generations are included in the cost of depleting natural resources.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Economics is a tool. All tools can become weapons when used in an incendiary way.

I’d like to live and participate in a society which has a robust and supportive economy, as opposed to an overbearing economy which treats society as an extractive resource.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Mooby the golden calf.