• Fishroot [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    54·
    3 days ago

    1- teach people an economic orthodoxy

    2-structure the whole society to maintain the orthodoxy

    3-people who works in statistics have the incentive to maintain the orthodoxy to keep their job

    4-people tweek the numbers to reaffirm the idea

    5-repeat steps 50 times

    6-The data is now off, but there are no alternatives but to keep doing the same as the orthodoxy have become a reality and any change can destroy the cycle

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      28·
      3 days ago

      4-people tweek the numbers to reaffirm the idea

      This is also the step before the first. The entire foundation of neoliberal economics is literally built on “well, uh, the real numbers didn’t make the model work so I made up these fake numbers that made it look nice, at least. Don’t worry, they’re intuitively correct!” and pure vibes.

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        18·
        3 days ago

        Yeah its very funny to get lectured about the '“cost” of things from people who base their entire discipline on not factoring in environmental externalities while staring at an undeniable climate catastrophe

        Which gets jokerfying when I remember they stuck us with the bill for fixing it so they didn’t actually make any money they just socially engineered a system where they got to live like kings before the ticket hit the register.

        The “dining and ditching” school of economics lecturing us about how we’re a bunch of idealist dreamers. Motherfuckers.

        • KobaCumTribute [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          3 days ago

          Oh it’s not just that, the normal numbers that they claim to be taking into account for their models are also made up because their models just don’t work in the first place. Like the basic tenets of their economic theory don’t actually work or apply to real world data so they have to heavily manipulate and massage the inputs just to get the “intuitively correct” output that reaffirms their beliefs.

          It’s bullshit from the very beginning: it’s not just flawed and myopic it’s actively fraudulent and ideologically driven at its very core. Some of the high priests are in on the con, which is why the neoliberals tend to fall back on Keynesian-lite policies in times of crisis even while otherwise preaching austerity and kleptocracy as the saviors sent by the holy line, but most of its priests are true believers who can only perform the rites they were taught and say what their tenets demand they say while twisting themselves into knots trying to insist that their bullshit is in any way tied to reality.

  • eyyImwalkin [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    3 days ago

    babel falls
    meek will inherit the earth

    the enemies will go down again on April 26th. along with the other event that I had specified

    not even the slightest harm will befall those who I have specified

    It will end in may–in a good way

    • BeamBrain [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      32·
      3 days ago

      The Tower of Babel is such a wild story, lol. God deciding to divide people and turn them against each other because their dope-ass tower threatened his brittle ego.

      • WoodScientist [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        3 days ago

        Seriously. God could have resolved the whole situation with an easy flex. Honestly he has really poor emotional control issues. Let’s imagine how he could have handled the situation better.

        So he’s there. He’s sitting there on the mountain, watching them spend years building their tower up. Finally, after decades of effort, the tower is nearly complete. As the last exhausted mason finishes the last stone, he looks out, near eye-level with God. He’s about to ask God, “not so great now are you?”

        But before he can, God looks on amused. Then he just laughs, taps his foot, and the mountain he’s on instantly grows a hundred times taller. The mason, and all the humans, suddenly know just how comically beneath they are to God in ability.

        That’s how you put a mortal in their place without being a dick about it.