https://x.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1800915894585147399

Krugman, despite being a neoliberal knows that food is an essential item. So likely he is propagandizing for Biden.

Look at personal savings rate.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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    5 months ago

    Really cool how every necessity in the US is treated just like a stock: another speculative asset and the idea of making something to fulfill a purpose is just…alien to the American mind. Even if you profit from selling something people need and fulfilling that need.

    • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      Americans are bad at dystopian fiction because every time some nerd is like "imagine a terrible future where you pay money for air" a whole rogues gallery of lamprey-men think it sounds like a great idea.

    • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      Kropotkin asserted that if capitalists could privatize air to breath and sell it they would. Seemed a bit hyperbolic 100 years ago, and here we are