A man at a typewriter says I'LL SHOW THEM SHOW THEM ALL

Morning Bluesky.

Politics?? At the Vatican?????

speaking on behalf of Gen-Xers, I think that the explanation is simple:

a thing economistic people need to think about more is most people are closer to suicide than to starvation.

what gets conventionally measured as poverty is not the binding constraint on most people’s welfare.

can we quantify what is? i don’t know. but it’s not what we’re quantifying.

the asset wealth escalator, which for those without a house or assets represents the rate at which you are falling behind, has not slowed, at least in the US. (this might be the year for it though, careful what you wish for.)

Excited for someone to win the econ Nobel by reproducing Maslow's hierarchy of needs but with math

I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing

The Right Wants You Stupid The eternal question to preserve the “pleasing illusions” that hold society and its authorities together.

My new piece for @liberalcurrents.com on the origins of the right's anti-intellectualism

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...

we were already atomized into adulthood, fundamentally alone, and our intuitions had been formed during an earlier era. many of us are living lives far less grand than what we'd expected would come easily. that merges easily into a fascist-adjacent narrative, somebody stole your birthright. /fin

the millennials had solidarity in collapse, everyone knew everything was broken by the time they reached early adulthood, and they collectively complained and complained and complained in cacophony about it. 2/

i think it has to do with the timing of our disappointment. things fell apart after we had fully internalized unipolar-moment optimism. the world is getting better and better and you're a loser if things aren't working out for you. 1/

I hate it when we go from "committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie" to "committee for managing the personal fixations of a small number of billionaires"

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i know, guys! what if we tariffed Vatican City?

Francis of course, who reformed the Vatican bank and had many of its former officials prosecuted

i don't have any hopeful motivated reasoning i can attach re israel / palestine / lebanon. hope there feels like touching the stove, we've all done it and done it and done it and been burned. (from the luxury of distance, it feels obscene to characterize oneself as having been burned. sorry.) /fin

inside iran, there might be more space for politics when bombs don't make anything other than rallying around the current government feel like treason. 3/

for the rest of world, indefinite mutual blockade creates time and incentive for adjustment from fossil fuels. 2/

maybe it's a stretch, i am desperately seeking silver linings, but maybe there's something hopeful in the Iran War metamorphosing from an acute to a chronic crisis, fewer bombs and missiles, slow pain on all sides from mutual blockades. 1/

ms. rachel is WEAK on the economy

ecclesiastical law and economics.

dad jokes, no taboos. rad dad jokes. really groovy stuff.

explains why there are so many urbanists on this website!

who was the most tough-on-crime pope?

c'mon people. it's rael.

i mean, okay, i might’ve ran instead.

if it were in that neighborhood, my country would be called “oh, man” too.

they decided it was better to be feared than to be loved, and they have gotten what they chose.

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

“what do they have against that golden calf anyway? gold is kind of my thing, you know.”