All Economic Warfare is Based on Deception

[umbrarchist]

Blocked by another economist on BlueSky.  Should I try a different deodorant?

 

 

He's got way more followers than me. I haven't even reached 1000. It must be that degree thing. I never should have dropped out.

.

[ProfD]

2 hours ago, umbrarchist said:

Blocked by another economist on BlueSky.  Should I try a different deodorant?

 

He's got way more followers than me. I haven't even reached 1000. It must be that degree thing. I never should have dropped out.

Becoming popular in anything has little or nothing to do with credentials. Hardly anybody actually verifies the letters behind a name.

 

Amassing followers or customers is all about one's ability to market and promote i.e. selling themselves.

[umbrarchist]

https://www.quora.com/Can-you-get-a-solid-understanding-of-economics-by-only-using-free-PDF-versions-of-textbooks-or-should-you-invest-in-physical-copies/answer/Karl-Smithe-1

[umbrarchist]

I have acquired a critic on another site.

 

[Quote]

For there to be perceivable factual errors, it must actually contain some coherent communicated point. It nowhere near amounts to being wrong considering it is illegible nonsense. I can emulate it to give you some insight if you're this lacking in self-awareness?

Or I can give you some more general critiques until you can get your shit together and say something meaningful?

Tonal discrepancies: your post reads like a somewhat disjointed spoken commentary rather than a written argument. It jumps between historical figures, terms, and events with minimal transitions and for no apparent reason - like you're name-dropping without really knowing much about the people. Similarly, despite apparently trying to write in an authoritative and definitive manner, the sum of the clutter is that it's speculative and suggestive, rather than being a structured argument or a thesis that can be disputed.

Lack of coherence and structure: Each paragraph jumps freely around between topics, like free-association rather than cogent point. Many things that are referred to such as Marx’s terminology, the Depression, GNP, Keynes, FDR are just tossed into the mix without clear transitions or connective logic. It's more like a collage of ideas you pinned to the same board by chance, rather than with any intent.

Unclear thesis: It's not just not clear what you're trying to argue or conclude; it's completely absent any salient point. Is it about the evolution of economic definitions? The shortcomings of classical economics? The emergence of planned obsolescence?  I doubt you know, frankly, or else you wouldn't have considered it worthy not just to write, but then to cite yourself as if you were some kind of expert.

Unsubstantiated claims: There certainly are some questionable details you have presented as fact such as FDR's dismissal of Keynes or the timing of fiscal stimulus.

Outdated or useless language: Phrases like “many things which consumers buy today that depreciate did not exist when Marx was alive” are vague. What things? Why on Earth is it relevant?

Non-sequiturs: "Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 35 times in the first two volumes of Das Kapital. But Marx died in 1883."


If you slap words on a piece of paper at random, the world will similarly be unable to point out any false claims you made - being unintelligible is a kind of proof against being shown wrong, I guess... but you still remain incoherent and thus fail to get any message across.

[/Quote]

[Troy]

 I can see his point

[ProfD]

4 hours ago, umbrarchist said:

I have acquired a critic on another site.

Surely. That can't be the 1st time you've read such a critique of your writing style.

 

Seems that around here, we're less critical of  subject matter, opinions, ideas, etc. 

[umbrarchist]

5 hours ago, ProfD said:

Surely. That can't be the 1st time you've read such a critique of your writing style.

 

Seems that around here, we're less critical of  subject matter, opinions, ideas, etc. 

Actually I have encountered it quite often.

People with nothing of substance to say but trying to be insulting with what l regard as trivia.

[umbrarchist]

Someone asked this question on Quora.com:

 

Is the USA experiencing end stage Capitalism? What comes next?

=========================

 

Is Consumerism really Capitalism?

 

When have you heard an economist discuss Planned Obsolescence? We hear GDP, GDP, GDP all of the damn time. What is the NDP?

 

NET Domestic Product

 

If there is a Gross there should be a NET!

 

There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995. Where are they? Machines wear out!

 

Machines DEPRECIATE!!!

 

Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital. But there were no automobiles when Marx wrote Das Kapital.

 

Where has the economics profession been hiding all of the Depreciation Data on things that did not exist when Marx was alive?

 

Automobiles, Jet Planes, Microwave Ovens, Washing Machines, Computers, Snow Mobiles, Snow Blowers, Hi-Fi stereos, Nuclear Submarines.

 

All that crap was added to GDP!

 

All that crap should be subtracted to compute NDP! But economists do not talk about the Net Domestic Product equation.

Economists cannot do Algebra.

 

Talking about the End Stage of Capitalism makes no sense when you have not acknowledged the last phase change.

 

John Maynard Keynes never saw a television commercial for an automobile. Less than 1% of American households had televisions in 1948. It was 90% by 1962.

 

See the USA in your Chevrolet 

Economists are telling you to play

 

With junk designed to Depreciate.

==========================

 

Of course I had to answer. I keep seeing this "Late Stage Capitalism" rubbish everywhere but uselessly vague generalizations about what that is supposed to mean.

.

Edited June 6 by umbrarchist
Typo

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, umbrarchist said:

Is Consumerism really Capitalism?

Intertwined but different.  

 

1 hour ago, umbrarchist said:

When have you heard an economist discuss Planned Obsolescence? We hear GDP, GDP, GDP all of the damn time. What is the NDP?

There is no incentive to focus on NDP when the game is capitalism fueled by consumerism and planned obsolescence.

 

 

1 hour ago, umbrarchist said:

There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995. Where are they? Machines wear out!

 

Machines DEPRECIATE!!!

Each one of those motor vehicles can be sold as along as it still runs. 

 

Inoperable motor vehicles can be broken down into parts and resold. 

 

Once the parts are salvaged, total loss vehicles become crap metal.

 

1 hour ago, umbrarchist said:

Karl Marx used the word 'depreciation' 100+ times in Das Kapital. But there were no automobiles when Marx wrote Das Kapital.

 

Where has the economics profession been hiding all of the Depreciation Data on things that did not exist when Marx was alive?

Karl Marx understood in theory capital, production, consumption, labor, surplus value, commodity, etc.

 

 

1 hour ago, umbrarchist said:

Automobiles, Jet Planes, Microwave Ovens, Washing Machines, Computers, Snow Mobiles, Snow Blowers, Hi-Fi stereos, Nuclear Submarines.

 

All that crap was added to GDP!

 

All that crap should be subtracted to compute NDP! But economists do not talk about the Net Domestic Product equation.

Production of those items provides jobs enabling folks to make money which in turn leads to consumption.  It is a rinse and repeat cycle ad infinitum that fuels modern economies.

 

 

1 hour ago, umbrarchist said:

Economists cannot do Algebra.

The average person never uses Algebra or any other form of higher level mathematics beyond academia.

 

1 hour ago, umbrarchist said:

Talking about the End Stage of Capitalism makes no sense when you have not acknowledged the last phase change.

There's no shortage of philosophical rabbit holes for humans to hop into and get lost. 

[umbrarchist]

1 hour ago, ProfD said:

There's no shortage of philosophical rabbit holes for humans to hop into and get lost. 

Lots of stuff in the rabbit holes.

[umbrarchist]

4 hours ago, ProfD said:

The average person never uses Algebra or any other form of higher level mathematics beyond academia.

The average person doesn't use Doppler RADAR to track rain clouds.

 

They just get wet!

[ProfD]

3 hours ago, umbrarchist said:

Lots of stuff in the rabbit holes.

There's a master plan for those junked vehicles.

 

1 hour ago, umbrarchist said:

The average person doesn't use Doppler RADAR to track rain clouds.

 

They just get wet!

Even the most average person has enough sense to grab an umbrella or find another means to avoiding getting wet.

 

One thing is certain, not even the smartest people can stop the rain from falling if it's in the forecast.

[umbrarchist]

10 hours ago, ProfD said:

Even the most average person has enough sense to grab an umbrella or find another means to avoiding getting wet.

Even the people who use Doppler RADAR get wet to some degree. It is nearly impossible to go outside and get in your car and stay perfectly dry even in a medium rain.

 

The trouble with the way these palefaces teach mathematics is that they go off into abstract Never Neverland totally out of touch with reality.

 

Economics without Depreciation!

.

[umbrarchist]

I am shocked!

 

Not everyone is blocking me on BlueSky.

 

https://chevan.info/depreciation-rules-transfer-wealth-up/

[umbrarchist]

 

 

Everybody needs to stop believing in Euro-American delusional economics. The Laws of Physics do not care about anybody and White people are turning the planet's natural resources into garbage while ignoring the depreciation.

 

 

https://chevan.info/depreciation-rules-transfer-wealth-up/

[umbrarchist]

The road to serfdom is paved with BMWs.

[ProfD]

On 7/23/2025 at 11:51 AM, umbrarchist said:

White people are turning the planet's natural resources into garbage while ignoring the depreciation.

The question is who's going to stop them. Black folks are waiting on the sky fairy to deliver the world from *evil*.

[umbrarchist]

12 hours ago, ProfD said:

The question is who's going to stop them. Black folks are waiting on the sky fairy to deliver the world from *evil*.

 

Which White people?

 

Not long after the Vietnam War I began thinking that the way to revolt against the palefaces was to get young White kids to do it.

 

Now they have created this Gen-Z problem: crappy jobs, high prices and no one ever explained to them what is going on. Now a lot of them voted for Trump expecting, I don't know what.

 

Tell them things that they can verify for themselves. The economics profession handed their parents a load of bullshit, and are still talking bullshit.

.

[ProfD]

52 minutes ago, umbrarchist said:

Now they have created this Gen-Z problem: crappy jobs, high prices and no one ever explained to them what is going on. Now a lot of them voted for Trump expecting, I don't know what.

The middle class and poor of all generations overwhelmingly voted a rich clown back into office as POTUS.  That is a problem to solve.

[Troy]

43 minutes ago, ProfD said:

The middle class and poor of all generations overwhelmingly voted a rich clown back into office as POTUS. 

 

To be clear more people did not vote at all than those who cast a vote for Kamala or Trump.  Trump barely won the popular vote against Harris. Neither candidate was able to earn a vote of more than 1/3 of the eligible voters.

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, Troy said:

To be clear more people did not vote at all than those who cast a vote for Kamala or Trump.  Trump barely won the popular vote against Harris. Neither candidate was able to earn a vote of more than 1/3 of the eligible voters.

Point taken.  Those who didn't vote still made a *choice* in where we are today.

[umbrarchist]

5 hours ago, ProfD said:

The middle class and poor of all generations overwhelmingly voted a rich clown back into office as POTUS.  That is a problem to solve.

They voted him in and how many are pissed off at him now. There have been posts coming up on BlueSky about his administration lying about economic data since this morning. Saying US economic data as unreliable as China.

 

I was talking about the military doing something about Trump in November:

 

.

Edited July 25 by umbrarchist
Add pic

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, umbrarchist said:

I was talking about the military doing something about Trump in November:

i remember. 

 

I also wrote that we don't live in a country where the military takes out their own leadership. 

 

A military coup would be a different ballgame and a whole new set of problems.

[umbrarchist]

2 hours ago, ProfD said:

A military coup would be a different ballgame and a whole new set of problems.

And I NeVeR said anything about a coup!

 

I find it amusing and confusing that so many people jump to that conclusion.

 

The last few months I have just been thinking about a A-10 Warthog flying over a golf course.  Do it in such a way that no one doubted that it was a US military action.

 

Every political idiot that follows should get the message.

 

Do NOT Fuck with the Constitution.

 

The Oath ain't No Joke!

 

We will take Your Ass Out!

.

[ProfD]

2 hours ago, umbrarchist said:

And I NeVeR said anything about a coup!

Fair enough. A military person removing POTUS by any means would be punished harshly.

2 hours ago, umbrarchist said:

I find it amusing and confusing that so many people jump to that conclusion.

It's not jumping to a conclusion if the solution to the problem involves the US military. 

2 hours ago, umbrarchist said:

The last few months I have just been thinking about a A-10 Warthog flying over a golf course.  Do it in such a way that no one doubted that it was a US military action.

Political assassination would not sit well with Americans. 

2 hours ago, umbrarchist said:

Do NOT Fuck with the Constitution.

Congress isn't doing the best job of folllowig or enforcing the constitution.

[umbrarchist]

38 minutes ago, ProfD said:

Fair enough. A military person removing POTUS by any means would be punished harshly.

If they were caught.

 

Suppose 5 Generals with 100 underlings decided to do it. Could they arrange it without being caught. And then how many would like to do it but don't have the guts?

 

Would they help or obstruct an investigation?

 

Then there is that unpredictable Patriotism factor. It is not difficult to see that the Preztard has already screwed up the country that would take more than a decade to fix if it can be done at all. Some people might not care if they get caught.

45 minutes ago, ProfD said:

Political assassination would not sit well with Americans. 

I have gotten lots of likes on the subject on BlueSky.

 

75% of the population scores below 111 on the Idiot Quotient tests.

[ProfD]

On 7/26/2025 at 1:25 AM, umbrarchist said:

If they were caught.

 

Suppose 5 Generals with 100 underlings decided to do it. Could they arrange it without being caught. And then how many would like to do it but don't have the guts?

Never going to happen in the United States of America.  This country was built different. 

 

On 7/26/2025 at 1:25 AM, umbrarchist said:

Then there is that unpredictable Patriotism factor.

The MAGA movement and hyper-white nationalism is very real. They will protect their leader.

 

As soon as tbose 5 Generals and 100 underlings start to plot and plan their deed, they will be compromised and sold out.

[umbrarchist]

He's Chinese, he must know what he is talking about.

 

No comment on Depreciation due to Planned Obsolescence though. Analysis incomplete!