Translation: https://hexbear.net/comment/3942686

I hope this get an official English translation

Anne Appelbaum?

First as farce, then as farce again

Petite bourgeois

Do popsci authors have a reputation?

Like in general? They are usually well educated, and sometimes are tenured profs or whatever, but a lot of the time they make wild claims that are deeply ignorant of philosophy, etc, and/or are completely non-falsifiable (I.e. A waste of time). As long as the idea is catchy, they will find their audience though usually not respect from their own peers.

My mental health has been repeatedly ruined by scientists reporting similarly ground-breaking and kind of shaky findings. Am I supposed to… not freak out about any supposed scientific fact that gets more than 1000 upvotes on Reddit?

I’m not exactly sure what you mean, but I wouldn’t worry about it too much. Unfortunately, the science or philosophy which filters through into pop culture is generally either sensational or misrepresented.

He’s a popsci author. I have no idea why anyone is bothering responding to that post lmao

You with the single ballot:

Yeah I couldn’t finish it because he has terminal brainworms which limit how far he can take his analysis. He has proudly said he hasn’t read Capital, and it shows.

The graphs and data he put together for Capital in the 21st century are excellent though.

It blows my mind Piketty can make that first graph and still be a lib.

But also, feel like shit, just want them back

They’re all at brunch and don’t care anymore

Critical support for the building of Rapture

“falling stars”

Lol okay

These may not be exactly what you are looking for, but may be of interest:

This one is on my list to read:

Ten Crises: The Political Economy of China’s Development (1949-2020) by Wen Tiejun

https://our-global-u.org/oguorg/en/download/Featured Authors/wen_tiejun/Wen-Tiejun_Ten-Crises_Online-PDF_20210619_REVISED.pdf

And:

How China Escaped Shock Therapy The Market Reform Debate By Isabella M. Weber

While it focuses on the market reform debates, it has some really interesting historical information about economics in China before, during, and after the revolution.

It will be so cool if they dump a bunch of resources into open source chip design