That just increases the margin for smugglers. Even there the level of debt bondage and lack of payment for mules is terrible. Not much in the way of unions in criminal enterprises.

They vastly overestimate what low level gang members make off of drug slinging. They’re arguing that it’s economical to lead a gang and hold territory. Well yeah.

dismantling the very conditions

Materialism is so rare nowadays in the anglosphere. Bernie does it constantly and paradoxically people use that as a moral virtue, completely sidestepping the damn point. Material conditions transcend the moral.

Yeah using immigrant labor to maintain economic growth isn’t globalism. The US did that with you swedes after all well before globalism was a thing. Globalism is about keeping people where they are and exploiting them through neocolonial financial instruments while suppressing local industries and wage earners in higher income countries by turning their entire economic structure to be asset based and rent seeking.

Thickeners too. Modified corn starch. Less objectional ingredient really since starch as a sauce thickener instead of reduction is pre industrial and modified starch is frankly a good innovation. I don’t want to sit there and stir. People who make pudding from scratch with regular corn starch are insane.

What happened to Jasmine Rice?

Primarily what I was saying is we should avoid thinking material conditions that create rational bad actors are pathologies or moral failings.

Only if it makes you unable to develop stable relationships. DSM doesn’t pathologize being an asshole. That’s normal human functioning.

When it comes to the DSM-V, that’s how it works. You must have a functional impairment.

A disorder must either somehow negatively impact your activities of daily living like your job or staying out of prison, or causes significant distress. If you’re explicitly making tons of legal money off your delusions, it’s not a disorder.

I hope you have some dried beans and hard maize to fill out your squash harvest.

That’s a photo op I’d be careful of with an opportunistic omnivore.

Even if the US drops the export bans, the party still views it as a critical security industry and will continue to attempt to outcompete foreign companies. And since they’re willing to take that sort of investment stance that the US is not, then they will eventually do so.

We’re resegregating the military.

Ya tryin to be edgy or is this your Charlie Kirk memorial post?

What’s funny is no charge nurse is capable of getting you to the point of getting fired over this shit. They’re just capable of making you want to quit. Management does not like spending money orienting new nurses.

Charge nurses and power tripping, name a more iconic duo.

Sacred tradition? Was Kirk Catholic? And if not why not? Just a grab bag of pick and choose your tradition? Both Protestants and Catholics say that will send you straight to hell. Might as well call yourself a gnostic if you’re going that route (though many of them didn’t have sex hangups).

Well the people who’s primary income that comes from their labor sees their wages stay the same while the rising assets take more of their income in the form of rents or the cost to actually buy things like property. That is until they can’t afford to buy necessities at all and completely abandon that economy. Those pressures exist both on individuals and new productive enterprises.