this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
718 points (98.9% liked)

News

23632 readers
3460 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] agitatedpotato 93 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I like how every layman said that this is what was happening but in the moment you could find half a dozen 'economists' on national news networks explaining it as if it was all just normal and no one was benefiting from it. Economics is a fake science, it's not even worthy of the title social science. It's literally just learning how to justify rich peoples actions and nothing else.

[–] dumpsterlid 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Economics is just astrology but for bros in business suits and without all the fun parts of astrology.

[–] jaybone 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Cocaine and hookers aren’t fun?

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

They’re not part of astrology. (Yes, yes, I’ll make my own astrology etc. etc.)

[–] Maggoty 2 points 11 months ago

Your thinking of the stock market. The basic principles of Economics are alive and well. Despite all the screwed up stuff the basics of supply and demand have held true the entire way.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago

find half a dozen ‘economists’ on national news networks

Oh, you mean that news that is owned by the very same oligarchs? Everyone should just collectively start ignoring national news. (Not trying to agitate you, dear potato, just...yeah, national news, their owners, and their 'economists' should be banned and charged with some crime for lying to the nation at every turn.)

[–] Maggoty 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just like any other field of study, you can buy an expert pretty easily. It doesn't mean Economics is fake. It Means those guys got paid to say that by someone like the US Chamber of Commerce. (Which isn't a government agency, no matter how much they try to seem like one)