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Hey tumblr looks like we need help
We are a household of 3 disabled queer adults and 3 cats and we are in a bit of a financial pickle atm
A couple months ago, we all caught COVID and had to stay home from work for a couple weeks and that severely impacted our finances. Now we also have had to pay off some debts and one of us had to have emergency dental surgery and was out of work for over a week to recover. We have burned through all of our savings and have very little money left and our food stamps expired a month ago. We’ve reapplied for food stamps and are waiting to get approved, but in the meantime we need to buy groceries and we have very little money to do that. Plus we need to be able to save up for paying rent and utilities.
for this month’s groceries and gas, we’ll need:
$500
And we would also appreciate it if y’all could help us raise money for this month’s rent and utilities, which would be about:
$1,700
If y’all could throw some money our way to help us get through this rough patch, it would be greatly appreciated! Even a little goes a long way towards helping us, and if a lot of people are able to give a little that will help a lot!
If you want to give, you can give at all of the places listed below:
Venmo: @SarahPillbug
Cashapp: $ScoutForester
Zelle: ebcrmarrs@gmail.com or saforester1992@gmail.com
$27/$500
Thanks so much, y'all! this helps a lot!
Okay wait this brings up a point Dr. Richard D Wolff (americas leading Marxist economist) brought up in a lecture a while ago; economics needs an ethics review board.
Every other major discipline has an ethics review board. If you're a doctor and prescribe a patient a lethal dose of the wrong medicine, you get disciplined. If you're a biologist and commit animal cruelty, you get disciplined. If you're a psychologist and conduct an unethical study, you get disciplined. If you're an engineer and neglect safety standards when building a bridge, you get disciplined.
But if you're an economist and your policies actively harm people in a demonstrable way, nothing happens. It's all just a 'matter of opinion'
American and other western economists advised the Russian government on how to run the country following the end of the ussr and its estimated that the economic policies they recommended directly lead to the deaths of millions of people. And not a single economist so much as even lost their job.
Economics degrees also need courses on ethics and the real human impact of economic policies so that economists can learn how to avoid harm in the first place.
Recently, one of the most famous US economists posted a tweet sternly chiding the “hysteria” people were fostering in falsely claiming that inflation was bad in the United States. He included a graph that showed that in fact, prices for most things was down!
Except for groceries and utilities. The things that people actually need for even basic survival.
He did not seem to even understand that there could be any dissonance in his statement.
At best, economists get so caught up in numbers that they lose sight of the human costs of everything involved. At worst, and indeed frequently, they actively contribute to making things worse for the people already at the biggest disadvantages.
this is because economics is a fake science. it isn’t real. it only exists to sell ideology for rich people. same for political science. they were originally one field, political economy, since all economics are political and all politics are economical. they’re inseperable. but political economists like marx said mean things about rich people so it was split into two meaningless, harmless fields that can spew propaganda with graphs and charts.

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