Literati

@Literati@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Economics is just psychology masquerading as a hard science

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rents are skyrocketing because demand is high and we literally do not have enough housing for the number of people we have in the places they live.

  Suddenly dumping more money into the economy would just increase the price bar on that demand, and prices would go up more.

  Prices can increase for a lot of reasons, and going up from one doesn’t stop them from going up from another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Next up, they’re going to go scream at the girl scouts on the corner that they’re being exploited

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikimedia Foundation calls on US Supreme Court to strike laws that threaten Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a US thing I’m too French to understand?

  I’d say likely yes to this. It’s much easier to centrally govern a more geographically dense and homogeneous country.

  In the US we have strong localized government (city/county, state) and the more sweeping Federal government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gift giving in post-scarcity society must be really hard.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like it’d make gift giving more difficult, but more meaningful- you would have to give people actually customized things, something you made or something you think they need that they haven’t noticed. Harder, but shows more thought than giving generic-consumer-item#528

  I know this is a meme, just made me think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roots of Mother Appalachia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Was thinking of this pod while reading the post. So good