https://x.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1800915894585147399
Krugman, despite being a neoliberal knows that food is an essential item. So likely he is propagandizing for Biden.
Look at personal savings rate.
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Really cool how every necessity in the US is treated just like a stock: another speculative asset and the idea of making something to fulfill a purpose is just…alien to the American mind. Even if you profit from selling something people need and fulfilling that need.
Americans are bad at dystopian fiction because every time some nerd is like "imagine a terrible future where you pay money for air" a whole rogues gallery of lamprey-men think it sounds like a great idea.
Kropotkin asserted that if capitalists could privatize air to breath and sell it they would. Seemed a bit hyperbolic 100 years ago, and here we are