im not talking about the recent CN episodes but like. I assume no major tech company makes money, or if it does, it's through a side gig (like AWS being responsible for Amazon making any profits).

Streaming services spending 9 fucking figures on a movie and then saying it's somehow actually profitable because you can't quantify an ad free stream like you could a movie ticket

And Uber can't even shift their numbers around well enough to look profitable

  • furryanarchy [comrade/them,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Economics is real. It's a genuine field worth studying, in a societal sense. However, because it doesn't take much economic study to realize that capitalism is self defeating and generally doesn't work in a way that sane people would want it to, it has to be poisoned with liberalism to be allowed to have legitimacy.

    The only economists allowed to have their opinions publicly heard and broadcasted are liberal ones. Which is like only allowing Nazi geneticists to taken seriously. You are going to hear mostly bullshit, and you are going to end up with a very warped perspective on what the field they are an "expert" in actually is.

    Not only that, the field has been held back a lot by the fact that only the economists who say what the bourgeoisie want to hear get paid. For christ sake, the supply and demand curve is still taught in schools. That is like the Ether theory of light still being taught in high school it's so ridiculous.