mbti shit posting

Never not a reblog

I can't not reblog this

We keep seeing the version of this post without the above clarification making the rounds, and we'd prefer this one getting the traction. People are still reblogging with various hand-wringing explanations -- how milk expires too quickly, how this is the state's fault, how this has nothing to do with capitalism, how it's just empty complaining without any proposed solution, etc. That's why the clarification/proposed solution is necessary; we want people to get a slightly more in-depth analysis, so they start connecting the dots and seeing how this irrational behavior is endemic to market systems with universalize commodity production. We want people to know what the basic blueprint of a society beyond those irrational market systems would look like.

It makes sense why milk companies wouldn’t give this milk away which they can’t profitably sell. Packaging it would be a cost, transporting it would be a cost, distributing it would be a cost, and extra free supply would further drive down the price of the milk they can sell. They lose money distributing it. Which is exactly why market economics cannot be the end all be all of critical systems. Value is not generated by someone buying a good, but by someone receiving a good they can use. When critical systems throw away value because their incentive systems are messed up, that’s when you really want a government that can step in and do something about it. There’s no amount of morality you can cite which will not make it personally a bad idea to give away this milk for those who run the milk businesses, no amount of morality which will ensure companies which do so anyway aren’t out-competed by those who don’t. That’s why government bodies, beholden to voters who do care about morality when they vote, are so important. Because sometimes the world’s incentive systems just don’t favor morality. Placing above them elected officials who, as well as you can design your democracy, have to worry about voters’ moral outrage is the closest thing to a solution to that we’ve ever managed.

Just a casual reminder that your procrastination and disregard towards studying is due to the fact that you're afraid you're not good enough and need something to blame your potential failure on