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think of the shareholders (slrpnk.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 186 points 7 months ago (2 children)

OH MY FUCKING GOD I THOUGHT THIS WAS A SHITPOST THIS IS A REAL ARTICLE

[–] [email protected] 118 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The Economist is truly awful. Just deep throating capitalism in every article.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

It's kinda funny watching neoliberal zealots try to rationalise how their economic system eating itself is actually a good thing.

Well, kinda funny in a you'd-cry-if-you-didn't-laugh way, since we're all in it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

My favorite was watching Chris Matthew's lose his shit when Bernie won California. Literally cried on air and for some reason was also antisemetic?? Anywho would love to see more of the former from them.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

All we can hope is that China will be a better superpower than the US was 🤷‍♂️ the collapse of the west seems inevitable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What makes you think china won’t collapse along with them? Our economies are tied at the hip and they are sitting on a massive debt bomb with their real estate woes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

They already resolved the real estate issue, without any crisis. And you might not know cause this isn’t news in the US, but China has been massively offloading all its US debt and dollar reserves. They are preparing to decouple, the US has been threatening to do it for so long. But the fact is, the US and the West will suffer much more than China. They are pivoting to a service and tech economy, and will become the new US of a new “global south” pole.

The image that China is a “manufacturing” hub for the west is super outdated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Tankies gonna tankie.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

They already resolved the real estate issue, without any crisis

Nope. Most definitely not. Never heard of Evergrande have you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

This is bait

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Tbf I wouldn't really expect much from a newspaper going by "the economist"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Bartleby is satirical

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Oh thank god

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is it? I found this page and nothing indicates it’s satirical at first glance (and no way I’m registering to read that).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"Thoughts on management and the world of work, in the spirit of the “scrivener” of Herman Melville’s 1853 novel" from https://www.economist.com/bartleby

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Even there, though, nothing explicitly states it’s satire. I found the column’s introduction and even there it doesn’t seem ironic at all.