well becca suffers from capitalist realism, that’s for sure. she can’t imagine a world that isn’t capitalism, she thinks all of these prices are some natural phenomenon decided by “the market”, as if the market is being controlled by some mysterious force, rather than by, you know, capitalists.
When Adam Smith talked about the “invisible hand of the free market,” he was being literal. Like Jesus, Santa, and the Easter Bunny all come down from heaven each night and move the price tags around at grocery stores.
Libs and reactionaries still hold this belief, though they’ve separated it from God and religion. Now they think of it as some sort of naturally occurring force, like gravity.
According to the Clergy / Economists, there is an all-knowing, all-powerful God / Market that rewards the good and punishes the bad.
If you are poor and suffering, you must have angered God / The Market.
If you are rich, you must have pleased God / The Market.
No government can or should attempt to control God / The Market.
God / The Market is a fickle, unknowable, unpredictable beast that might occasionally destroy your entire hometown, but that must still be your fault somehow.
Being angry at God / The Market is like being angry at the weather, or gravity.
You can’t expect anything from God / The Market - you are entitled to nothing from the power on high.
You can pray, you can beg, you can hope - but you are entitled and rude if you expect anything good from God / The Market.
it wasnt walmart that raised the prices. you can thank mother nature for that. and now she’s flooding the whole south eastern US!! this is why i support mom and pop oil companies in their valiant crusade against to so-called “environment” (prison is also an environment, so you put two and two together)
“seemingly no way to bring these costs down”
well becca suffers from capitalist realism, that’s for sure. she can’t imagine a world that isn’t capitalism, she thinks all of these prices are some natural phenomenon decided by “the market”, as if the market is being controlled by some mysterious force, rather than by, you know, capitalists.
When Adam Smith talked about the “invisible hand of the free market,” he was being literal. Like Jesus, Santa, and the Easter Bunny all come down from heaven each night and move the price tags around at grocery stores.
Libs and reactionaries still hold this belief, though they’ve separated it from God and religion. Now they think of it as some sort of naturally occurring force, like gravity.
According to the Clergy / Economists, there is an all-knowing, all-powerful God / Market that rewards the good and punishes the bad.
If you are poor and suffering, you must have angered God / The Market.
If you are rich, you must have pleased God / The Market.
No government can or should attempt to control God / The Market.
God / The Market is a fickle, unknowable, unpredictable beast that might occasionally destroy your entire hometown, but that must still be your fault somehow.
Being angry at God / The Market is like being angry at the weather, or gravity.
You can’t expect anything from God / The Market - you are entitled to nothing from the power on high.
You can pray, you can beg, you can hope - but you are entitled and rude if you expect anything good from God / The Market.
it wasnt walmart that raised the prices. you can thank mother nature for that. and now she’s flooding the whole south eastern US!! this is why i support mom and pop oil companies in their valiant crusade against to so-called “environment” (prison is also an environment, so you put two and two together)