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Written by Cory Doctorow on 2025-01-11 at 19:02

The social function of the economics profession is to explain, over and over again, that your boss is actually right and that you don't really want the things you want, and you're secretly happy to be abused by the system.

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Written by EVHaste on 2025-01-11 at 21:09

@pluralistic I love that you’ve used liztruss as an adjective to describe rotting lettuce.

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Written by gz on 2025-01-12 at 00:37

@Haste @pluralistic

Liztruss can be used as a verb too, as in "be careful not to liztruss the economy".

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Written by Havyhh2 on 2025-01-12 at 03:04

@Haste @godzero @pluralistic ....and can be modified to reflect a past tense verb, as in "she really liztrussed the absolute sh*t out of the economy"

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Written by gz on 2025-01-12 at 03:08

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Of course! And that would result in #lizztrussification.

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Written by Angus McIntyre on 2025-01-12 at 06:01

@godzero @havvyhh2 @Haste @pluralistic I believe you mean "total liztruction”.

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Written by Sasha on 2025-01-12 at 15:15

@angusm @godzero @havvyhh2 @Haste @pluralistic this phrase needs a PR agent and a lot more exposure 😃

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