vexlleth:
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lakeside-conservative:
tonysopranobignaturals-deactiva:
do people really still think states are reopening because coronavirus is under control and becoming less common ??? the re-opening is literally just for money. nothing has changed in real life to warrant it other than concerns about the economy.
The economy is fairly important you know. Like, really important. To distill the economy down to just money is an epically large mistake.
the economy isn’t gonna fuck you
You know what the economy isn’t? A living, breathing, conscious and thinking organism. It is a concept. It is observable as a part of society and yes, when distilling it to its basic definition, every society, even an off grid family of 5, have economics. I get that. Good for you and me that we’re intellectual.
Guess what that means though? The economy doesn’t think, doesn’t feel, doesn’t plan, doesn’t breathe. Its a reactionary concept that develops based on OUR actions. WE are alive. WE control the economy. We could literally pause it if we wanted to.
Plenty of “smart” and “accomplished” people who talk in terms only a wallstreet broker can understand will tell you that if the economy stops everything burns to the ground. Actually, it doesn’t have to. Its quite simple. You can absolutely say “a horribly deadly pandemic has broken out and we do not know enough about it. We must hit the pause button. Money will have the same buying power when we start again because we will make it so. We will provide food for ourselves as we always have but do so in as safe a way as possible, and we will treat those who are sick without indebting them.”
People did not start building their own houses because they wanted equity in the shares market. They wanted out of the rain and snow.
You have GOT to start being even the most RUDIMENTARY amount of fucking empathetic here. Literally a gas company making money doesnt fucking matter. It doesn’t matter at all because money is an object that WE give value to and if theres no more people theres no one to give meaning to your bank account. So please pick up your mask. Put it the fuck on. And care about your fucking neighbors you uncaring, business suit, industry worshiping cretin.
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