This generation of corporations and entrepeneurs are a bunch of bums. No one wants to hire anymore, all they know is stock buybacks, layoffs, automation, and lie.

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    Using AI to read the tens of thousands of resumes submitted by applicants who used AI to write them.

    Then entirely outsourcing your HR to a call center in the Philippines. And outsourcing your IT to India. And outsourcing finance to some tech startup. And selling the IP to a cutout in Ireland and renting it back so you can off-shore your profits.

    By the end, its not even clear what business you’re in. You’re just a generic middle man.

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        There’s a reason I like referring to non-Marxist economists as “the high priests of capital” and its because it’s a bunch of fictitious bullshit. Hey the moon is angry, the acorn harvest stock prices will fall earlier this year

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          Pretty much. Whether they agree with it or not, Marxist analysis is the logical next step/continuation to the works of the classical liberal economists. Without being able to so much as acknowledge and take it into consideration, mainstream western economists are basically just a bunch of hucksters thinking up vibes and catchphrases to whitewash capitalism’s natural descent back into the material equivalent of feudalism (which it never left for much of the world)

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            capitalism’s natural descent back into the material equivalent of feudalism (which it never left for much of the world)

            Well said

            Permit me the digression but even when I was a kid I couldn’t understand why the peripheral nations were like poor as shit despite us “leading the way.” And when I asked why they seemed to have so much trouble “following our lead” invariably the answer involved some racism or cultural essentialism