{"id":88751,"date":"2024-11-18T06:32:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88751"},"modified":"2024-11-18T06:32:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:32:04","slug":"and-to-think-we-accuse-them-of-economic-illiteracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88751","title":{"rendered":"And To Think We Accuse Them Of Economic Illiteracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:\u00a0 &#8220;Prez&#8221;, Dim Little Progressive Social Media Bulb<br \/>From:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasant who passed Econ 201<br \/>Re:\u00a0 Not The &#8220;Own&#8221; You Think It Is<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Prez&#8221;,<\/p>\n<p>Re your sentiment expressed over the weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/PrezLives2022\/status\/1857937480185504188\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, saving more money is good for you &#8211; might make you a conservative, eventually, actually.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And unless you save that money in a coffee can in your closet, it&#8217;ll go to a bank, which&#8217;ll circulate the money around, further helping those who <em>are <\/em>participating in the economy to grow things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not sure that&#8217;s quite the &#8220;own&#8221; you think it is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even less so than dumping Twitter to join &#8220;BlueSky&#8221;, really.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 &#8220;Prez&#8221;, Dim Little Progressive Social Media BulbFrom:\u00a0 Mitch Berg, obstreporous peasant who passed Econ 201Re:\u00a0 Not The &#8220;Own&#8221; You Think It Is &#8220;Prez&#8221;, Re your sentiment expressed over the weekend: I mean, saving more money is good for you &#8211; might make you a conservative, eventually, actually.\u00a0\u00a0 And unless you save that money in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,349],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-88751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88752,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88751\/revisions\/88752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}