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@zippkode @AntipodeanBob @TheRealKitty019 The Nobel Prize is fake but the economics that wins it is really real (because economists believe in it) despite the economists being motivated by a fake award? Don't think you have given this much thought.

@AntipodeanBob @TheRealKitty019 Baseless conspiracism. The incentive would be to find the better metrics and win the (fake) Nobel Prize for them.

The collapse of academia is most acutely visible with the "economist" class, where virtually everything they produce is complete garbage. In this case, their methodology is completely fucked and that's why they can't accurately model why people feel so bad. The numbers are all good, insofar as the "established metrics" go (and as long as you're a Keynesian) so CLEARLY it's just "vibes" and people don't actually realize how good they have it. The problem is, of course, that there's three layers to this; the liminal, subliminal and super-liminal; think of them as what is, what you feel and what you imagine. Within Freudian psychology the liminal (Ego) mind balances against the super-liminal (super-ego) and subliminal (id) and while the theory is useful, it's incomplete. In truth, each segment weighs against and analyses different pieces of your condition; what you are experiencing now, how you feel now, and how you expect to feel later. Liminally, then, the average person is struggling quite severely. Several price shocks have hit, again and again over the last 20 years to the point that your purchasing power is probably the lowest it's been since 1932. The numbers say things are good, and conditions might individually be "better" with more toys, more entertainment, more, more, more, but people can still compare the now to the past and while Zoomies are still young, we can remember before the '08 recession (or in Canada's case, before Trudeau). Thus the subliminal comes in, the id, your heuristics-based analysis. Here, now, everything is measurably, objectively worse in every way. Our societies are more dangerous than they have ever been- yes ever. Crime is higher than ever, and in ways that are just utterly inconceivable to normal people who haven't adjusted their heuristics. Cases like the Rape Gangs in Britain, or random subway murders in NYC, people being set on fire at random, the racial killings of white teenagers, hostile governments focused entirely on crushing peaceful nativists while ignoring serious crimes and Canada- because I am one- becoming a narco-state. These are things a normal person, plugged into the normal media, either can't talk about or doesn't consciously know about it, but they can feel it. Everyone can feel the tension, they can feel that there's something off, they can feel that it's all just getting worse. And what of the super-liminal then? Well if your conditions are materially worse than your parents', and you feel terrible about everything, it's then really difficult for the mind to then ignore all that data and pretend like things can get better. Everyone is, instead, stuck in a short-term risk mitigation mindset. Consumer spending happens now because you won't have that money in 12 months. Order food now because it will cost 30% more next year. Go on the trip now because the planes literally will not have fuel in 12 weeks. These aren't rational choices people make, they're irrational, animalistic responses to the conditions they're presented with. The only rational agent in this equation is the liminal mind that's too pre-occupied with paying bills to overcome the id's need for comfort and the super-ego's despair. And so we reach the point; economists are incapable of modelling this or correctly reading the data they're presented with, either because they're just stupid or because they're ideologically forbidden from "noticing". As a consequence, then, their models all fail. Every single one, and they've been failing for a hundred years now, they get literally everything wrong and can't figure out why every economic reform they do, why every single time they just print money, everything gets worse for everyone. A hundred years of economics, everything since FDR essentially, needs to be expunged from American Law for there to be any hope of recovery in Zoomers' lifetimes and what then? By the time it's fixed, a large ratio will have passed by their fertile years, and that population crunch hits no matter what. The only quick, here-and-now fix is to do the unthinkable and actually literally just mass cull people as they turn 70 and seize Boomers' assets as collateral for whatever meagre government pensions are left for when they retire. And then, on top of that, you need to remove every single migrant that is a net drain now, or of a group that is a net drain; the system just can't recover with them parasitizing off it. The number-1 cost for Millennials and Zoomers is housing, the number-2 cost is taxes. The solution for Number 1 will increase their income dramatically and from there, it's just getting taxes down to a manageable level. Doing these things will, actually, just solve a huge chunk of Millennials and Zoomers' economic and social woes.

@bowlingnols @GreeneMan6 That doesnt change the analysis I understand the path this leads to "if enough rational actors also act irrationally, you can get an 'optimal' outcome" The marginal change in risk taken on by rational actors is infinitely greater than the marginal potential benefit to the outcome

@5NV2000 @GreeneMan6 People aren't rational actors though, which is a major factor that must be taken into account.

“All internet thought experiments are variations on either ‘The Trolley Problem’ or ‘The Prisoner’s Dilemma’. ‘Red Button vs Blue Button’ looks like ‘The Trolley Problem’ but it’s actually just ‘The Prisoner’s Dilemma’!”

@bowlingnols @GreeneMan6 Yes and no. It's uninteresting as a hypothetical itself because there is no dilemma. This would not pass a game theory class because the risk adjusted outcomes are so entirely biased. It is interesting that controversy can spawn from what is rationally completely uncontroversial

@5NV2000 @GreeneMan6 It's that it's borked that makes it interesting.

@AcademicAgent_X A curious boomer mindset where changes in environment and diagnostic advancements explain increased rates of conditions like cancer or dementia, but are used to say conditions like ASD or ADHD aren't real at all.

I think a lot of basic character traits have been pathologised and it’s almost certainly over-diagnosed, but autism is definitely a real thing, especially when you see the harder edge of it.

@Sargon_of_Akkad Britain, in it's utterly apocalyptic and degraded state, with crime at levels never before known (multiple orders of magnitude above a century ago) is still far better than America. This is not hard to grasp.

Don't believe your lying eyes! Britain has never been better, my lord!

@infinitehorus How do you distinguish between civilian and ruler in a democracy? Rule by demos after all. You aren't just a neutral peasant in a field regardless of the unknown whims of the lord, anymore. Why would we expect them to make a distinction that only few of us are able to make?

I was at university in Manchester when the September 11th attacks happened. Rusholme had a large Muslim population, now known to be a place where gangs of men have raped British children. The universities also had many Muslim students. Muslims I knew there were smug for days after. They thought it was funny, justified and long overdue. 'America' deserved to get hit hard in the face, they thought. Thus they celebrated the mass murder of civilians. The same types condoned the 7th July attacks in London. They treat these things as natural, justified reactions against what Western governments do. They simply saw themselves as at war with us. There is no allying with people like that. They despise us, the whole Western world, and they don't distinguish between us and our rulers.

@infinitehorus The same argument can be made for the label Muslim rape gangs as to miss out the Hindu ones, for example in Leicester No matter the they, they are not us. One needs to be able to understand this generality while also understanding the particularities of different subsets of this

The Muslim rape gangs are called that for good reason. Pakistanis are a large component of the known perpetrators, but Somalis have done the same in Bristol, and in Glasgow and Newcastle we know that there were/are multi-national networks of Kurds, Afghans, Egyptians, Moroccans, Turks, Pakistanis, Iranians, Albanians, Iraqis and some unspecified Eastern Europeans grooming and abusing British children. That's just based on the tiny amounts of info the police, civil service, local governments and media have failed to keep secret, and most of that info is old. Vast numbers of immigrants have entered Britain since all these cases became publicly known. Muslims of dozens of nationalities and ethnic groups are engaging in these practices now. 'Pakistani rape gangs' is misleading, and treating Pakistanis as a particular problem will not stop these crimes.

@a2_masters @trwsenti Closer to 1.25% of that £10.38 as the threshold is almost at £30k now. Soon that degree required 35k post might not even be paying as much to be seen as beneficial enough to begin repaying the loan. Thank god for small mercies lol

@trwsenti To get that £35k post you probably had to go to uni. So, 9% of that £10.38 goes back to student finance. The situation is absolutely desperate in the YooKay.

£35K salary sounds alright until you work out what it actually costs you. You're not getting paid for 8 hours. You're selling your entire day. The commute. The lunch hour you can't use. The 2 hours on the couch recovering when you get home. Add it all up and your real hourly rate drops to about £10.58. The person who made your coffee this morning earned more per hour than you did. They just didn't have to sit through a team meeting first.

@a2_masters @SimonMarshall27 @RupertLowe10 Celebrating winning £1 on a £2 lottery ticket

@SimonMarshall27 @RupertLowe10 Raising the speed limit is celebrating the £1, not the £999,999.

A Restore Britain Government would back British drivers. How? Raise the speed limit on motorways to 80mph. Remove all 20mph zones, other than those outside schools or areas with vulnerable individuals. Our current 70 mph speed limit was implemented decades ago, for a completely different type of car with completely different capabilities - far lower safety standards, poorer braking, and less advanced handling. It is unnecessarily slow, plenty of other countries sensibly allow for more. 80mph is faster and fair, and Restore Britain would do the unthinkable - trust people to get on with their lives without such overbearing state interference. It boosts business, backs drivers and gets Britain moving. Support Restore Britain to make it 80.

@JohnnyMul1916 @AcademicAgent_X That same ticket costs about that much now for "economy class". (one suspects this explains the AI answer and as such that answer means nothing) The image shows a carriage without compartments so likely not even 1st class use of the time.

@AcademicAgent_X Certainly wasn't for the average man.

People will cope and say “it was just the rich”.

@AcademicAgent_X Our lives now are massively more reliant on energy/electricity than 50 years ago. One example: you could take iso drawings home to work on by candlelight, you can't do the same with spreadsheets. Shops used to have non digital logistics etc etc

This is too hyperbolic, but again, I refer you back to the 3-day week where the actual result was not a revolution or the end of the ruling class, but a substitution of Heath back to Wilson. The actual result of Covid lockdowns wasn't revolution either, it was Starmer.

@Aelthemplaer Seems like an AI hallucination by Google to me. Masks and glasses for the protection detail for Bibi, others weren't wearing them. If this was a real video from 2020 then someone would/should have found the original rather than it just being in an AI summary.

@PEnus82676 @AcademicAgent_X Memorising times tables does not help students understand calculus, it makes them Chinese rooms. This is massified teaching and is why we have seen massive decline in the sciences for a century or more. Your unqualified experience is nothing.

Entropy

@fragmentshore I presume the Ukrainian rentboys did

Has anyone turned on Starmer yet?

@TheBlackHorse65 @RuinsMan In England, for example, the number of English on the census has been hovering around 45 million since 1961. Would suggest some capacity has been long reached.

@RuinsMan In almost every Anglo country, peak native population is well in the rear-view mirror; typically ~1990.

Unpopular Opinion: Increasing the supply of housing in an environment where the population of the peoples of the developed world is falling is very foolish. It's a good thing that housing stocks have grown more slowly in the Anglo world than in more tyranical countries.

@MorgothsReview I see little real difference between you and them regarding how you see and treat Restore and Lowe. It's ok for you to mention the massive hurdles involved and the slim chance of success but lord forbid you spend hours reviewing their policy docs to find and fix areas of weakness

The Scottish man who wears a dress insisted that nothing could be done until we had real-world institutions with our people in them. In Restore Britain, that institution was created and staffed by our lads. The trannie right didn't join, didn't help, they shat on it from their stream.

@AcademicAgent_X Oh are we all into voting and political party theatre again now? Has all that was learnt been forgot? The iron laws suddenly melted away? Realism dissolved again in a desperate and cowardly grasp for optimism. Nothing more should be expected, it is only in our nature.

It's time to put aside all our differences and get behind Rupert. Cometh the hour. And the hour is late indeed.

@AcademicAgent_X The issue of targeting the skeleton or necromancer again Vote in Boris to stop the skeleton. Didn't go for the necromancer and Boris filled the country with zombies instead Where does Connor think middle management get incentives from if not upper management?

The issue that matters most is not having a 5th column running your country. All other matters become easier to fix once that issue is fixed. Goodwin represents more of the same. A fox in the henhouse. Someone with a secret agenda which can't brook an "and". Can't be debated.