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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the 1860s, The Economist stood nearly alone among liberal opinion in Britain in supporting the Confederacy against the Union, all in the name of access to cheap Southern β€œBlood Cotton” [...] and fear of higher tariffs if the North triumphed. β€œThe Economist was unusual,” writes an historian of English public opinion at the time; β€œOther journals still regarded slavery as a greater evil than restrictive trade practices.”

from https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/economist-has-slavery-problem/

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago

Holy guacamole

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or you could like develop a hobby or spend time with your family idk

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

HOBBIES!?!?! What are we, a bunch of browns? If you're not working, we're clearly in a 1984 communist dystopia! (No I'm not hiring btw).

The Junior Anti-Sex League volcel-vanguard counts as a hobby right?

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Economist writers after age of 60 should be put in amazon fulfillment center, as a bit

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Economist writers after age 18 should be put in a cage where we can throw things at them, as a bit.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just toss them in a bottomless pit with a pair of bootstraps

[–] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

so they can just laze about all day while we do the backbreaking labor of throwing things? fuck that.

we'll put them in a well and have them throw rocks up so they fall back on their own heads. seems more efficient.

[–] YearOfTheCommieDesktop@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

when your job isn't a pit of despair sure, maybe you find it fulfilling and want to keep working rather than find other outlets in retirement, but capitalism ensures 99% of jobs won't be like that and so everyone who can retire pretty much does

[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Never ever ever ever retire ever

  • The computers are going to take all your jobs

Which the fuck is it?

[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

The computer wont take my thinktank job.

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Even this hypothetical ignores that the human body runs into so many potential ailments in advanced age. Of course if you just kill everyone before that happens...

[–] LeninsBeard@hexbear.net 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People working in physical labor jobs: die

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

None of the young Oxford and Cambridge grads who write everything for The Economist have ever known someone who does manual labor for a living.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zifnab25@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is China's Low Retirement Age Destroying Their Economy?

This whole article is such a target rich environment, but my brain really lodged on

the government rarely announces a goal that may not be attainable.

Imagine this being written about an American institution.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

They mean that you, the person reading the article, should never retire. Economist writers definitely will not continue working, if you can even call writing for The Economist a job.

My job will probably leave me disabled before I can retire.

[–] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

My father in law just got on disability after a life of construction absolutely destroyed his fucking body. Carpal tunnel like mad. Arthritis so bad you can see it on an x ray. No nerves left in his hands so he just randomly drops shit now. They’ve gotta fuse a bunch of the discs in his back. Cartilage is just gone from his knees. After seeing him for the first time in a decade, his doctor was baffled and asked him how he functions and he said he just ignores the pain. Personally I think the rampant drug use helps take the edge off but I’m no doctor. Retirement my ass.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Work sets you free

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

I'm not going to retire I'm going to eventually get injured at work and go on disability like all construction workers.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Here, then, is the problem with the magazine: readers are consistently given the impression, regardless of whether it is true, that unrestricted free market capitalism is a Thoroughly Good Thing, and that sensible and pragmatic British intellectuals have vouched for this position. The nuances are erased, reality is fudged, and The Economist helps its American readers pretend to have read books by telling them things that the books don’t actually say.

How The Economist Thinks | Current Affairs

[–] ForkBombRaja@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

The bosses want to work us to death.

[–] dan42O 11 points 1 year ago

Does anyone proof read there tweets or does ai bot summate the article?

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

I agree that those three things suck (or in any case that the family tree one is only fun on a finite scale and the other two suck), but you don't even need to leave the realm of stereotypical retirement activities to find better things, like learning a language or how to draw or running a marathon.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

The only possible way I can see myself "never retiring" is after a lifetime of adventures and travels, I settle down in a cozy cascadian town to become a beloved college professor.

That's my deal, take it or leave it.

[–] moujikman@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Behavioral economics posing as labor economics. Behavioral economics is completely fake and has no value. It's effectively social psychology for libertarians.

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago