What’s really fucked is real academic economists have been many of the people ringing the alarm bells for the last 40 years, while pop economists bought and paid for by capital are the only voices in the media.
For example, Jim Cramer isn’t an economist, but for a lot of rubes who know nothing about economics, they’ll follow him until they’re all penniless.
TV and newspaper economists generally support the status quo and academic economists have been pointing out how increasingly fucked we are for a long, long time.
Even Robert Reich, who actually does have an academic economics background and who is better than a lot of mainstream economists, still largely supports a capitalist system with restraints. You just won’t see more extreme viewpoints than that of Reich when it comes to the media.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
-Noam “I’m still stupid enough to have associated with Epstein” Chomsky
What’s really fucked is real academic economists have been many of the people ringing the alarm bells for the last 40 years, while pop economists bought and paid for by capital are the only voices in the media.
For example, Jim Cramer isn’t an economist, but for a lot of rubes who know nothing about economics, they’ll follow him until they’re all penniless.
TV and newspaper economists generally support the status quo and academic economists have been pointing out how increasingly fucked we are for a long, long time.
Even Robert Reich, who actually does have an academic economics background and who is better than a lot of mainstream economists, still largely supports a capitalist system with restraints. You just won’t see more extreme viewpoints than that of Reich when it comes to the media.
-Noam “I’m still stupid enough to have associated with Epstein” Chomsky