• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Comparing doctors to economists like they’re remotely comparable is fucking funny.

    Capitalist economists are more equivalent to astrologists than a professional science.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml
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      Mainstream economy is pseudoscience since they took their first step back in order to not admit Ricardo was on a right course. And it could be even worse, Austrian school for example is literal cult.

    • rubpoll [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      Economists are the new feudal clergy, they only exist to justify the current ruling class.

      The wealthy are wealthy because God / The Market is rewarding their value.

      The poor are poor because God / The Market is punishing their laziness.

      Economists treat the modern economy the same way Abrahamics treat God - as an unpredictable, fickle monster that you can’t ask anything of.

      You can’t blame God / The Market when it punishes you, you can’t directly control it or tame it, but you can offer it incentives at most and be grateful for scraps.

      God / The Market doesn’t exist to serve Man. Man exists to serve God / The Market.