{"id":57178,"date":"2021-03-19T07:13:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T12:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57178"},"modified":"2021-03-19T08:18:19","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:18:19","slug":"money-is-made-up-and-we-can-change-the-rules-whenever-we-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57178","title":{"rendered":"Money Is Made Up And We Can Change The Rules Whenever We Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2021\/03\/18\/money-is-made-up-and-we-can-change-the-rules-whenever-we-want\/\">Money Is Made Up And We Can Change The Rules Whenever We Want<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-9649\" class=\"post-9649 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-capitalism tag-communism tag-economics tag-money tag-socialism\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/medium-12.jpg?fit=800%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/medium-12.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/medium-12.jpg?resize=300%2C134&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/medium-12.jpg?resize=768%2C342&amp;ssl=1 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"356\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>Have you ever noticed how online capitalism cultists who condescendingly tell socialists they \u201cjust don\u2019t understand economics\u201d are always unable to lucidly defend their own understanding of economics?<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never pressed such a character to clearly and concisely explain what it is you \u201cdon\u2019t understand\u201d using their own words, I highly recommend that you try it, because it\u2019s one of the funniest things in the world. If you keep interrogating them about each aspect of their belief system, demanding that they explain exactly what it is they know and how they know it, they will invariably end up getting frustrated and telling you to listen to this or that economist if they don\u2019t rage quit on you altogether first.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really fascinating how consistent this experience is; talk to other online leftists about it and if they\u2019ve ever really engaged the argument they\u2019ll have had the same experience. Someone who truly understands something will be able to clearly and concisely tell you in their own words what they know and how they know it, and someone who strides in talking down to you about how you \u201cdon\u2019t understand economics\u201d is certainly claiming to know something, but when you really plunk them down and interrogate their understanding you will always find it to have been a lot of empty bluster. They don\u2019t understand their own position, they\u2019ve just listened to a bunch of capitalists explaining their position to them in an assertive tone and assumed it must be unassailably correct.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money Is Made Up And We Can Change The Rules Whenever We Want Have you ever noticed how online capitalism cultists who condescendingly tell socialists they \u201cjust don\u2019t understand economics\u201d are always unable to lucidly defend their own understanding of economics? If you\u2019ve never pressed such a character to clearly and concisely explain what it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17039,111,31056,536],"class_list":["post-57178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-capitalism","tag-mental-construct","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57187,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178\/revisions\/57187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}