I've been listening to economist @RichardJMurphy a lot recently, coming from a place of barely understanding how money works at all (having never had much of it).

[melodicdinosaur@cupoftea.social]

I've been listening to economist @RichardJMurphy a lot recently, coming from a place of barely understanding how money works at all (having never had much of it). I didn't know the government didn't work like a household in terms of spending. I didn't know that a politics of care was actually realistically possible. I didn't know how wealthy the wealthy are, or that it's just political decisions that are keeping us trapped in a huge cycle of exploitation. I just accepted the dehumanising narrative we're all told about the need for austerity. But what Richard says is making everything make so much more sense. We ordinary folks have been so badly tricked, for such a long time. I just *did not know*. People need to know this stuff. If what he says can somehow be put into practice, people won't have to be worried about surviving anymore, and won't be so easily manipulated into clinging to the political and cultural idols that say, "blame immigrants", "blame the disabled"... etc.