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[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 12 points 13 hours ago

Deportations are also lost jobs. Not sure they will be counted though.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Good point.

[-] TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 25 points 15 hours ago

This is the point. They want to crash the economy.

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago

I mean, he said so himself even before the election. We just have the fucking stupidest, god awful people in this country that apparently wanted it.

[-] murphy@startrek.website 5 points 13 hours ago

he said so himself

I would love to be able to show some of my MAGA relatives that clip. Do you have a link?

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago
[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Thank you for the link.

In the article Elon Musk said that we (and by we he means us) have to reduce spending to live within our means. LOL. This from the guy who sells $100k cars.

[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

Hurray for democracy! Everyone gets a vote just for showing up!

[-] gabbath@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago

But hey, look on the bright side: Musk and his rich bros will be able to buy up stuff for dirt cheap!

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

Oh come now! That's surely just a coincidence.

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 30 points 19 hours ago

“Jesse Rothstein is an economist, and currently professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, he was chief economist at the US Department of Labor. He is the founding director of the California Policy Lab, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a member of the editorial boards of Education Finance and Policy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, and Industrial Relations.[1][2][3][4]”

For those that don’t know the guy he’s got a solid pedigree

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 45 points 20 hours ago

Crises are a feature of capitalism. Marx talked about this. Things become hell for the working class, and the capitalists reap the rewards.

[-] SyntaxError@lemmy.world 10 points 15 hours ago

Yes, and people with power, people with connections, and people who are rich will always benefit from crises. Naomi Kleins The shock doctrine explains this very well in a modern context.

[-] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 points 14 hours ago

Adding to my reading list!

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 19 hours ago

That being said there is yet to be a system that does not have crises.

[-] Doom@ttrpg.network 14 points 17 hours ago
[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

Humanity has, the one with the least propensity to experience crises is the one most nations are following.

Controlled economies are much less stable but Marx was unaware of that as economics in his time was less data driven and more philosophical.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Controlled economies are much less stable

Said in thread about how nuking the control over the economy is about to cause a recession. Yeah, sure.

Deregulation almost always leads to the working class being robbed, the land poisoned, and people killed.

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

Instead of ranting about deregulation why not look at how poorly controlled economies behave? There aren’t many functioning and what few exist aren’t doing great. Humanity is not smart enough to currently run a controlled economy effectively. That might change if actual AI exists but right now we cannot do it.

Remember the largest command economy in history, The USSR, collapsed mostly because of economic failures that were self created. The second largest command economy was the PRC who moved away from it to a hybrid system and has had greater stability since then.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Every economy is controlled in some way.

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

Yes but “controlled/command/planned economy” refers to one where the state sets prices rather than letting market forces determine them. This is not possible to competently do right now with current technology.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

Trump is going to cause the recession. Musk is there because of trump.

[-] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 4 points 13 hours ago

Musk paid to get Trump into office. Musk is there because of Musk.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Worst bromance ever.

[-] Glent@lemmy.ca 10 points 17 hours ago

The people burning down the nation release the "report". Dear leader haz bestest economy evar will be the headline. We will never see clean information again, thats the point. Best unemployment numbers, homelessness over, drug war won, best economy ever, amerikkka has no gays, immigration solved, fairest elections ever. Im concerned that people dont see this coming and trust any information released by this new "government".

[-] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago

Demanding that reporters who make criticisms of Trump/Musk be fired and jailed, is going to get the agencies in line with our Fuhrers.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago

My guess is that the first bad report will be accurate, but once this administration gets caught with their pants down, they'll fire that team and start releasing jobs reports that have been sharpied to death.

[-] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 48 points 23 hours ago

By April, the employment report will probably be either heavily doctored or just downright not published.

Nazis don't care about the truth.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 15 points 23 hours ago

Taking a page from the CCP

[-] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

It’s sad that you have downvotes for this. It is a common practice in authoritarian states.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

Who is there to warn though?

You got your normal Americans who already know this.

And then there's the manipulated ~~Nazis~~ Magas that won't even listen to this warning.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 8 points 16 hours ago

This is some of that bizarre, black-and-white thinking I've come to expect from Lemmy (and, of course, reddit). I can assure you that there are a lot of "normal Americans" who do not "already know this".

[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

I feel like too many of the people here really do need to touch grass. Idk if it's the high number of people in tech work or something else but I see so many takes of what "normal" people that's so far off the mark it makes me question when was the last time they spoke to an actual person.

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

If by "actual person," you mean Trump voter, I'm afraid our definitions of people might be different.

[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago

Hey, don't worry, it's "a good thing" we're about to enter a recession!

[-] hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 15 hours ago

What makes you think that there'll be a report in March or April?

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 94 points 1 day ago

be richest person

crash the biggest economy in the world

buy the remains for cheap

not exactly a complicated plan.

maga voters want this to happen. they crave being worse off.

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[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 66 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Billionaire Disaster Capitalism - billionaires create their own disasters and then profit immensely off of them

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[-] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 8 points 22 hours ago

I fucking hope so. I cannot wait to watch this burn down around them.

[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I saw a report that said the likelihood of an asteroid hitting the Earth has gone up and I thought to myself, hmmm, that might be nice.

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 38 points 1 day ago

That guy is forgetting that the jobs report is produced by a government agency, so what makes him think they're going to report accurate numbers?

[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Or any numbers if they are all fired too.

[-] murphy@startrek.website 2 points 13 hours ago

That reminds me of when someone tried to use the FOIA to request firing information for one of the govt. agencies and all of their FOIA staff had been fired so there was nobody to fulfill the request.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 17 points 1 day ago

Don’t worry. Elon and his friends will simply invest in shares as they bottom out in the crash.

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