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SweetPotatoSeason
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Increasingly what our rulers mean when they say "efficiency" is not delivering more good to human beings with less waste and cost, but rather enslavement and systemic murder of human beings for more profit.

But the purpose of human beings is not efficiency.

www.the-reframe.com/our-purpose-...
Our Purpose Isn't Efficiency
Society is not a corporation and we are not its employees. Moving the sick American spirit toward health by abandoning fool notions and damned lies.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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pamnapo.bsky.social
And worth considering next time we think about blaming Dems for not “getting their message out there.” The media is a right wing outrage machine. There is nothing amplifying the righteous outrage all normal Americans are feeling right now. The media tempers it.
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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itsafronomics.blacksky.app
Here's the thing about being a woman: our entire existence is at premium. That is because the world is made with men in mind and not women in mind.

The pink tax is REAL There are similar products on the shelves of stores you visit that are priced higher for women, which is WHY tariffs don't help.
The Pink Tax: Why Do Women Pay More? Kilts Center at Chicago Booth Marketing Data Center Paper 76 Pages Posted: 21 Nov 2022 Kayleigh Barnes UC Berkeley Jakob Brounstein University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics Date Written: November 4, 2022 Abstract We study the question of whether women, on average, pay a price premium — a so-called “pink tax” — for the products they buy. A particular concern facing policy makers is whether such differences are a form of gender based price discrimination. Using scanner data, we find that averaged across the entire retail grocery consumption basket, women pay 4% more per unit for goods in the same product-by-location market as do men. This price differential is generated by a 15% higher average per unit price paid by women on explicitly gendered products, like personal care items, as well as a 3.8% higher average per unit price paid by women on ungendered products, like packaged food items. Higher prices paid by women could be the result of differences in demand elasticity, competitive structure, or sorting into goods with differing marginal costs. To disentangle these mechanisms, we estimate demand differences between men and women and structurally decompose price differences into markups and marginal costs. We find that women are, on average, more price elastic consumers than men, suggesting that as a consumer base women are not likely to be charged higher markups under price discrimination. Overall, we find that the pink tax is not sustained by higher markups charged to women, but by women sorting into goods with higher marginal costs and lower markups.
April 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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itsafronomics.blacksky.app
You might be wondering "Anna, what other stuff could the tariffs impact?" And I would say: THE HAIR INDUSTRY.

Have you been to a beauty supply store? Everything is basically imported from China. And who does that impact the most? Black and minority women. This is #TheDoubleTax.
itsafronomics.blacksky.app Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · Apr 2
lol these tariffs are about to make being a woman in America WAY MORE EXPENSIVE and we need to talk about. A thread/
April 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM