RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116040136897752985
La economía, cómo otros dioses antes que ella, requiere sacrificios para darnos su favor. Sacrificios de los pobres, obviamente.
"GDP isn't really a measure of the health of "The Economy" – it's a measure of the parts of "The Economy" that make rich people (that is, the Epstein class) better off."
It's hard to talk about the Epstein class without thinking about "The Economy" - "The Economy" in the sense of a kind of mystical, free-floating entity whose health or sickness determines the outcomes for all the rest of us, whom we must make sacrifices to if we are to prosper.
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