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You couldn't make it up the company sponsoring the GAA profits from mutilating children..

The corporate sponsor is abbvie, manufacturer of puberty blockers.

#followthemoney #makesitmakesense

The arrangement will see the AbbVie logo appear on the senior ladies’ football team jerseys until the end of the 2022. AbbVie also sponsors of the Sligo men’s county GAA Senior, U-21 and Junior football team jerseys.

https://www.abbvie.ie/responsibility/supporting-communities/impact.html

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Forwarded from Normans Adventures in Inflation

Nihilism, Tattoos and Apathy

“They pretend to pay us, we pretend to work”

Obviously inflation affects the economy and economic considerations of people, but an overlooked aspect is how inflation affects people psychologically, specifically how inflation breeds nihilism and apathy.

The first thing I noticed when I arrived in Argentina was the sheer number of tattoos. Tattoos are rather common in my home country, but the amount and bodily-location of tattoos was a shock. I’m not just talking about working class men sporting sleeves on their arms, I’m talking about pretty, young women with aggressive facial tattoos, middle class professionals with neck tatts, school kids with tattoos covering the back of their hands. When I asked my Argentinian friends about this (some of whom sport tattoos) they simply said; “why not?”. As in, nobody cares about anything anymore, so you don’t have to worry about the judgment of others and you’d don’t have to really care about yourself either.

All this is to say, there’s an underlying sense of nihilism that pervades a society gripped by inflation. “It’s always going to get worse, so why bother”. The upside of this is the La Belle Vie (https://t.me/normflation/20) I mentioned in an earlier post, the downside of this is that no one gives a shit about doing a good job or caring about themself in the border social order. A huge incentive (of not the biggest incentive) to better yourself (accumulating wealth) disappears, so many people stop attempting to better themselves and some even start to actively degrade themselves.

This doesn’t just manifest itself in tattoos, but in quality of work (also mentioned in an earlier post https://t.me/normflation/40). Anyone who’s been to Latin America knows that service in restaurants is comically bad, but Argentina really stands out as uniquely terrible (which is unusual because despite its economic problems, Argentina is still more functional than most places in Latin America), but given the wages on offer in Argentina (pic related) it’s not surprising at all.

“If you wanted me to care about my
job, you’d give the opportunity to actually make money”
or
“If you wanted me to care about my country, you’d give me a stake in the future”
or
“If you wanted me to care about how I look to others, you’d give me an opportunity to rise in the social hierarchy”

After you hit super-inflation, expect nihilism, apathy and face tattoos to be the norm.

Normans Adventures in Inflation

Inflation Experience: La Belle Vie

In the Soviet Union there was joke the workers would say about their economic system; “they pretend to pay us and we pretend to work”

This is also exactly what happens in Inflation. Everyone tacitly accepts that no matter…

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