Meh. The #DismalScience becomes marginally less dismal. 🤷🏻‍♂️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dism…

#LarrySummers #Harvard #Economics #Misogyny

derogatory alternative name for economics

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From the linked article:

-"The logic surrounding the AI boom is utterly moronic. The idea is to gamble the entire Western economy by heavily investing in technology that will wipe out almost all jobs. It is a lose-lose scenario. If the bet fails, the economy crashes. If the bet succeeds, the economy crashes. And this graph shows that this is precisely what is happening."

wlockett.medium.com/the-most-t…
#Ai #Economy #economics #society

‘I Deliver Parcels in Beijing’, by Hu Anyan.

I like this book. Describes the various very low paid jobs the author did.

As The Guardian’s book review puts it, ‘The low-paid Chinese worker is at the mercy of an entirely unrestrained market.‘

theguardian.com/books/2025/oct…

#books #reading #china #economics

I Deliver Parcels in Beijing by Hu Anyan review – startling stories of China’s new precarity

The viral blog turned book details the exhausting life of a courier, but something may have been lost in translation

^{Joe Moran (The Guardian)}