RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116126552546349967

But at least we only spent a trillion dollars on it, right?

Incidentally, if you divert a trillion dollars to something and get "basically zero" economic activity around it, that's not an investment. It's sabotage. It's become the chief manifestation of the capital strike we've all been enduring since, roughly, the first half of 2022.

What's a capital strike? That tends to be the question I get in response to this rant.

You know what a labor strike is, right? It's wielding labor as power, by witholding it, as a bargaining tactic.

A capital strike is the same thing, except with capital.

@jenniferplusplus we can imagine the people you're telling this to instinctively going "but theyre right to do that and the workers would be wrong to do that"
@atax1a Yeah, that is a problem