Economics Thread

chop2chip said:
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Man, I’ve had $500 meals that didn’t taste as good as trash food when I was a kid.
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That's because the memory is more valuable than the food. Like my mom's Meatloaf, It's nothing special, but it just slaps because it's nostalgia. It's why that scene in Ratatouie hits so perfect because most of the time you eat, you're chasing either a new expeirence or a memory. Even your new food experiences tie to a memory.

For example, one time I was wasted and had these wings, they ****ing slapped. they were perfect. I chase that high all the time and I think the wings sucked. But it was what I needed in that moment.
 
thethe, my friend

I feel like this debate between Brad Palumbo and Tim Pool is representative of every single debate we’ve had over free trade. I thought you would get a laugh

 
chop2chip said:
thethe, my friend

I feel like this debate between Brad Palumbo and Tim Pool is representative of every single debate we’ve had over free trade. I thought you would get a laugh

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Don’t think you are pro rape if that means anything to you.
 
sturg33 said:
Nah 8-5 corporate job is the dream!

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Some women, like men, simply prefer corporate hell to domestic hell, and other women work in corporate hell because they have no choice, either because they cannot afford to live in a single income family, have a husband that can’t work, or don’t have a husband. The argument for gender equality actually is not wanting women to be wage slaves. It’s that we don’t want women to be expected to perform a specific role in our society because they are not men. If a woman wants to perform more traditional gender roles they’re welcome to. My wife happily stays at home with our kids and I work because it’s what was best for our family.
 
mqt said:
Some women, like men, simply prefer corporate hell to domestic hell, and other women work in corporate hell because they have no choice, either because they cannot afford to live in a single income family, have a husband that can’t work, or don’t have a husband. The argument for gender equality actually is not wanting women to be wage slaves. It’s that we don’t want women to be expected to perform a specific role in our society because they are not men.
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Do you recall the outrage and backlash Harrison Butker received when he simply said that being a loving wife and homemaker is a wonderful option for women to pursue if they do not with to be corporate wage slaves?

Woman have been hypnotized that raising a family and a home is akin to being subhuman

Sad to see
 
sturg33 said:
Do you recall the outrage and backlash Harrison Butker received when he simply said that being a loving wife and homemaker is a wonderful option for women to pursue if they do not with to be corporate wage slaves?

Woman have been hypnotized that raising a family and a home is akin to being subhuman

Sad to see
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Some will disagree with me on this, but I don’t have an issue with Butker’s speech given the audience. I don’t agree there’s some sort of natural order that presuppose women (particularly college graduates) should be the ones tasked with domestic responsibilities over men, but a room full of people who chose a Catholic university doesn’t likely share my views. The backlash was overblown given the context.
 
mqt said:
Some will disagree with me on this, but I don’t have an issue with Butker’s speech given the audience. I don’t agree there’s some sort of natural order that presuppose women (particularly college graduates) should be the ones tasked with domestic responsibilities over men, but a room full of people who chose a Catholic university doesn’t likely share my views. The backlash was overblown given the context.
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Society in general should be celebrating family raises and home makers. I grew up mocking the idea of a stay at home mom. Now that I have a child, I can't think of a more important role.
 
sturg33 said:
Society in general should be celebrating family raises and home makers. I grew up mocking the idea of a stay at home mom. Now that I have a child, I can't think of a more important role.
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I agree, except that the same wonderful advantages of this setup can be achieved with a working mother and stay-at-home father. I once again don’t care if Harrison Butker doesn’t express that view to a group of Catholics, but on a practical level I don’t understand why that outcome shouldn’t be promoted by those who want more positive societal outcomes overall.
 
sturg33 said:
This will be where the lobbying starts, and the government will get to pick its winners and losers

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The housing lobby is probably the most effective one in Washington. I think they will get what they want. Which illustrates part of what makes these tariffs regrettable. They set up a situation where outcomes are driven by lobbying power and special interest group politics rather than markets. Not that markets are perfect. But they generally produce better outcomes than interest group politics. Now we will see the special pleadings of the steel industry raised to the nth degree.

On a different level, I think Canada (and Denmark and a bunch of other countries) would be well-advised to no longer view the United States as a reliable ally and to reorient (yes I chose this word with care) their economic, foreign and national security policies accordingly.
 
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I truly do struggle to understand the simultaneous long-term strategy to implement tariffs to incentivize shoring manufacturing jobs while doubling down on major investments to build out AI infrastructure which will inevitably replace the human workforce in manufacturing. It’s far more likely that in “12 years” the vast majority of manufacturing work is robotic than we’ll see a surge of high-paying manufacturing jobs.

Again, I’m very open to the argument that there is a national defense reason for producing goods domestically. But economically it feels like the ultimate “own goal”.
 
chop2chip said:
I truly do struggle to understand the simultaneous long-term strategy to implement tariffs to incentivize shoring manufacturing jobs while doubling down on major investments to build out AI infrastructure which will inevitably replace the human workforce in manufacturing. It’s far more likely that in “12 years” the vast majority of manufacturing work is robotic than we’ll see a surge of high-paying manufacturing jobs.

Again, I’m very open to the argument that there is a national defense reason for producing goods domestically. But economically it feels like the ultimate “own goal”.
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Do you think serious long-term strategy is something to be associated with Donald Trump. That's an awfully strange expectation.
 
Oh don’t get me wrong. It’s not something I’ll lose sleep over. I think he’s going to quite enjoy king making the next few years. I’m more curious to see if average Joe Americans will have the patience to look past the inevitable inflation.
 
If anyone knows where I can source popcorn made in Canada or Denmark, I'm here for the show. Pricing is no object.
 
chop2chip said:
I’m more curious to see if average Joe Americans will have the patience to look past the inevitable inflation.
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what inflation...i don't see no inflation

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nsacpi said:
what inflation...i don't see no inflation

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I think there’s a genuine chance that we’ll see an increase in terms like “price normalization” and “short-term fluctuations” and some folks will try to convince us it’s our civic duty to shoulder these increased costs for some nebulous amount of time until things level out.
 
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