Sunday: walk, laundry
Oct. 27th, 2024 04:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI walked with M.
I did some laundry, including stripping beds. I’m also doing A’s comforter, so that’s exciting.
I’ve been poking around trying to understand why so many people I know are focused on the decision not to endorse by WaPo, and very, very, very secondarily LA Times and no focus on the Teamsters for same or, really for that matter, no one is saying boo about Bloomberg?
We’ve for sure had worse elections for Failure to Endorse, but all of that pales compared to 1980, when the Teamsters, PATCO and the Air Line Pilots Association endorsed the Republican candidate and I think about half the country remembers what happened to PATCO after that (the other half hopefully learned about it in school, since it happened before they were born). I’ve thought a lot (starting when it was happening, child tho I still was) about so many union members voting for the bad actor in that election, and how people persist in thinking that people will vote in line with their economic interest in spite of broad and deep evidence to the contrary.
So today, I’ve decided to step away from the specific current weirdness, and think about why have categories “micro” and “macro” in economics, but we don’t have them in politics and why. Because for all that people do not vote in a way that aligns with their economic interest, they equally do not make economic choices in ways that align with their political interests. And even when people know they are doing it, they keep doing it. I bet if I imagine what “micropolitics” and “macropolitics” might mean by analogy to “microeconomics” and “macroeconomics”, I’ll probably come up with a really compelling explanation. You know, take the use case seriously.
Unrelated: apparently, on the list of things that Drunk Walkitout will do, that Sober Walkitout will regret, is having 2 manhattans at Forge and Vine, and deciding that having the brussel sprouts and fries as her dinner is a great idea (there were also 3 oysters). The brussel sprouts and fries were awesome, as were the manhattans. As expected, the brassica (the sprouts) ensured that today did not involve anything remotely resembling a hangover. However, it turns out that in conjunction with whole grain for breakfast and veg and rice for lunch, this was a _lot_ of fiber. Just. A. Lot. Of. Fiber.
I did some laundry, including stripping beds. I’m also doing A’s comforter, so that’s exciting.
I’ve been poking around trying to understand why so many people I know are focused on the decision not to endorse by WaPo, and very, very, very secondarily LA Times and no focus on the Teamsters for same or, really for that matter, no one is saying boo about Bloomberg?
We’ve for sure had worse elections for Failure to Endorse, but all of that pales compared to 1980, when the Teamsters, PATCO and the Air Line Pilots Association endorsed the Republican candidate and I think about half the country remembers what happened to PATCO after that (the other half hopefully learned about it in school, since it happened before they were born). I’ve thought a lot (starting when it was happening, child tho I still was) about so many union members voting for the bad actor in that election, and how people persist in thinking that people will vote in line with their economic interest in spite of broad and deep evidence to the contrary.
So today, I’ve decided to step away from the specific current weirdness, and think about why have categories “micro” and “macro” in economics, but we don’t have them in politics and why. Because for all that people do not vote in a way that aligns with their economic interest, they equally do not make economic choices in ways that align with their political interests. And even when people know they are doing it, they keep doing it. I bet if I imagine what “micropolitics” and “macropolitics” might mean by analogy to “microeconomics” and “macroeconomics”, I’ll probably come up with a really compelling explanation. You know, take the use case seriously.
Unrelated: apparently, on the list of things that Drunk Walkitout will do, that Sober Walkitout will regret, is having 2 manhattans at Forge and Vine, and deciding that having the brussel sprouts and fries as her dinner is a great idea (there were also 3 oysters). The brussel sprouts and fries were awesome, as were the manhattans. As expected, the brassica (the sprouts) ensured that today did not involve anything remotely resembling a hangover. However, it turns out that in conjunction with whole grain for breakfast and veg and rice for lunch, this was a _lot_ of fiber. Just. A. Lot. Of. Fiber.