/lit/ - Literature

>>17934067
No

>>14861324
Who could have known that liberals were the true accelerationists all along?

What are some psych books with actual insight? Preferably from academic sources and not self-help trash.

>>13813980
It's time.

>>13385703
A modern Mercantilist USA, my form of modern mercantilism, would be better because wages would be higher, job requirements would be lower, employers would be forced to be more willing to train employees themselves thus decreasing the "need" for college and trade school, US would be more powerful by default, shit hole countries like China, India, Mexico, etc would be put back into peasantry where they belong, and people would still be able to be rich. One of the capitalist critcisms of Mercantilism was that trade is not a zero sum game but that has been proven false. Sorry Adam Smith,trade has proven to be much closer to being a zero sum game in terms of nation to nation trade than not being a zero sum game. Notice how the people who claim to say Mercantilism doesn’t work and capitalism is what made America great LOVE the two negative parts of Mercantilism – subsidies and limiting wages. USA became no1 from Europe being in ruins after WW2 and the USA exporting industry to China has weakened the USA, lowered wages, which is proof of Mercantilism being right and Capitalists being wrong.
deport all illegals and visa workers and indefinitely halt all future immigration. It would raise wages and lower the cost of housing, especially in places that need it the most like big cities.
The labor shortage or skills gap myth is propaganda that is pushed so companies can keep importing workers who work for less and have lower work standards. Something that I never see mentioned about immigrant workers is that they have lower work standards, an actual citizen can tell their employer to fuck off, visa worker has to work 16 hours a day if they are told.
AI and automation is supposed to remove tens of millions of jobs from the market in a few years, self driving cars alone are supposed to remove millions from the US market. Every extra person you bring in is going to make the damage done by automation that much worse than it has to be.
Most big cities would have a $15+ minimum wage due to supply and demand if my deportation and immigrant halting happened. Would corporate cock suckers bitch about the minimum wage being $15+ due to supply and demand with no minimum wage law increase? Of course they would! Wages are already depressed yet they are lobbying for immigrants and visa workers.
I hear conservatives say wages have to stay depressed so we can remain "competitive with places like China and India, the only reason those shit holes were able to get out of peasantry and become a threat is because the same people saying we need to keep wages depressed exported industry to China and India which gave them wealth and power and allowed them to become a threat. China now has the power to destroy the USA because the USA exported industry to them.
Mercantilist USA would have NEVER let China or any other country get better. Population might not be even half of what it is now too which would be more environmentally friendly than any other policy.

thoughts on Pinker?

>>13153816

*though the use of mandatory drug administration*

are you seriously gonna read anything written by HIM?

>we will help you thrive in your new role

>>12864087
>coping this enthusiastically
You are one of Pinker's apostles, no?

>>12852384