[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, I’ll take one

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Wouldn’t honey qualify, too?

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Shit like that really yees my haw

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Governments are one of the few entities that are able (and occasionally willing) to spin up a mass production endeavor without the profit motive necessarily present.

Sometimes they essentially do this themselves via federal employees, or contractors. Sometimes they achieve the ends indirectly by incentivizing private companies with subsidies and the like.

Regardless of how it gets done, everyone shows up for work in the morning motivated by something. In the Soviet Union this was often the fear of imprisonment or other such violence, which was a really shitty situation for a lot of people to be in. In the modern world, it’s typically the hope that the money made will pay for food and housing and such.

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Wow that voice is amazing! I got goosebumps when she went all guttural for a second there

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Just finished my 300+ hour play through of BG3, so something short and snappy to fill the void sounds perfect!

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Basically the same thing..

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I also have a degree in economics (and computer science, fwiw). We agree that the incentive structures in the United States are fucked up. I was just answering the question in the meme with regards to manufacturing decisions and how/why they’re made. Discontinuing our perverse car-centric subsidy schemes would be a great way to steer demand and supply away from cars.

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You left the N out of humunculus in the strip. Besides that, lol

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