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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 65 points 10 months ago

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 “Blood Cotton” [...] and fear of higher tariffs if the North triumphed. “The Economist was unusual,” writes an historian of English public opinion at the time; “Other journals still regarded slavery as a greater evil than restrictive trade practices.”

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

[-] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 10 months ago

The Economist on Fascist Italy in 1922:

So far, so good.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago

Holy guacamole

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 45 points 10 months ago

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

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago

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).

[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 43 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago

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

[-] plinky@hexbear.net 28 points 10 months ago
[-] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 2 points 10 months ago

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

[-] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago

This implies there are minors working for the Economist.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months 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 40 points 10 months ago

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 30 points 10 months ago
  • 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 10 months ago

The computer wont take my thinktank job.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months 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 39 points 10 months ago

People working in physical labor jobs: die

[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months 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 31 points 10 months ago
[-] zifnab25@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 29 points 10 months 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.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago

Work sets you free

[-] TheModerateTankie@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

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

[-] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 21 points 10 months 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.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 19 points 10 months 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

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 18 points 10 months ago

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

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

If corporate-art were a whole article

[-] ForkBombRaja@hexbear.net 13 points 10 months ago

The bosses want to work us to death.

[-] dan42O@infosec.pub 13 points 10 months ago

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

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago
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