Post by Erik Baker / Redsky

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates faggot at approximately 8 trillion dollars

apr 3, 2025, 3:36 pm • 10 0 • view

Brilliantly put

apr 3, 2025, 3:27 pm • 1 0 • view

You joke but it GENUINELY feels like they’d rather live in a homogeneous society with a weak economy than a heterogenous society with a strong one. Like if you asked them, in those terms, to their face, they might actually say “yup!” It’s a cost they genuinely seem willing to pay.

apr 3, 2025, 4:11 pm • 107 4 • view

“But what about the cheap treats?” The ability to say slurs seems like the “treat” a lot of folks care about having the most. 🤷

apr 3, 2025, 4:16 pm • 51 1 • view

Cheap treats are on the way folks! Soon child labor laws combined with cuts to food & rising cost of shelter will get the children & poor folk into the fields, mines & factories. On that note, we are opening a company store nationwide where serfs must shop after getting paid only in crypto-credits.

apr 3, 2025, 6:35 pm • 13 1 • view

I disagree. Many of them wouldn't even comprehend those terms. They'd just hear "homo" and start shouting. 🤪 As George Carlin said, 'Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.'

apr 3, 2025, 9:46 pm • 4 0 • view

No they wouldn't they'd say "I ain't livin' in no homo Jesus society" and shoot you

apr 3, 2025, 6:34 pm • 2 0 • view

🎯 That's putting a price on the Broke the Woke never would've imagined possible.

apr 3, 2025, 3:22 pm • 3 0 • view

Yes, and to say r@tard.

apr 3, 2025, 2:44 pm • 33 0 • view

It’s kinda nice to watch them have to pay so severely for it.

apr 3, 2025, 2:48 pm • 34 0 • view

They aren't paying for it. They aren't going to starve or get sent to El Salvador. We are the ones paying for it.

apr 3, 2025, 4:55 pm • 21 0 • view

Didn’t that come in a little cheaper at £44b?

apr 3, 2025, 7:01 pm • 2 0 • view

That’s not fair, they also got the r word and the ability to say pussy at work. Smart dealing wall st execs. lol, what a rational economic system we have!

apr 3, 2025, 3:34 pm • 10 0 • view

I'm being informed that Wall Street guys are actually fond of a great variety of slurs

apr 3, 2025, 3:41 pm • 587 19 • view

They all think they’re Paul at the end of Lynch’s Dune, bringing the galactic economy to its knees and killing a guy by calling him a slur.

apr 3, 2025, 4:14 pm • 125 5 • view

I’d be crying laughing if it wasn’t so painful

apr 3, 2025, 5:48 pm • 28 0 • view

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aug 11, 2025, 4:17 am • 1 0 • view

A day of Liberation and Liberace.

apr 4, 2025, 5:04 am • 2 0 • view

This is the best insight I’ve seen on this 🤣

apr 4, 2025, 8:25 pm • 1 0 • view

But they can also say "pussy" with abandon, so add that to the calculations.

apr 3, 2025, 8:31 pm • 2 0 • view

and really we've only established that as a lower bound

aug 10, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view

Brilliant.

apr 3, 2025, 10:33 pm • 0 0 • view

This is a underrated post, the permission to only hire white men too be considered.

apr 3, 2025, 5:50 pm • 3 0 • view

Well 50% of that might also be being able to call them retarded.

apr 3, 2025, 4:04 pm • 3 0 • view

This is hilarious :P.

apr 3, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view

I'm not convinced that 1980s/1990s pop culture masculine behavior norms weren't 3/4 closeted gay vibes masquerading as "manliness" and 1/4 just being an asshole because you could get away with it

apr 3, 2025, 3:05 pm • 51 1 • view

7/8, 1/8. Your fractions were off a little bit otherwise you're correct.

apr 3, 2025, 3:12 pm • 24 0 • view

underrated post, no matter how many likes it ends up getting

apr 3, 2025, 4:11 pm • 11 0 • view

apr 3, 2025, 3:01 pm • 354 52 • view

Are you kidding? Economists have been accustomed to shouting basic economic truths and being ignored forever. This case is only interesting because the economic stupidity was so stupid that other people noticed.

apr 4, 2025, 2:27 pm • 5 0 • view

truth!

apr 8, 2025, 12:29 am • 0 0 • view

Taxation Day...not Liberation Day!!

apr 4, 2025, 6:40 pm • 1 0 • view

This says so much.

apr 3, 2025, 3:23 pm • 24 0 • view

Mate economists might be particular creatures but it really wasn't only natural scientists who heard the statement "inject bleach" and thought that was absolutely nuts We're not idiots

apr 3, 2025, 5:54 pm • 4 0 • view

This and permission to only hire white men.

apr 3, 2025, 3:07 pm • 15 0 • view

Also valued: not hiring women and hanging out in strip clubs.

apr 3, 2025, 7:17 pm • 6 0 • view

Epic post

apr 3, 2025, 2:59 pm • 2 0 • view

They also want to be able to say "retard," and lots of them want to be able to say the N-word.

apr 3, 2025, 8:06 pm • 1 0 • view

They do say those words, they just want to be able to do it without having to look around first.

apr 3, 2025, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view

Let’s not forget “pussy” (and not in the fun way)

apr 7, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view

When they could've all just started podcasts and gotten paid to do it

apr 3, 2025, 11:31 pm • 0 0 • view

bsky.app/profile/spig...

apr 3, 2025, 3:06 pm • 30 2 • view

David Solomon, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, recently praised the incoming Trump administration for “running a growth-y playbook”. “I am quite optimistic that this administration is going to run a very, very pro-growth agenda,” Solomon said at a Reuters event.

apr 3, 2025, 3:48 pm • 16 1 • view

GS shareholders should hold his feet to the fire for misleading them (not because it would accomplish anything, but it would be good sport)

apr 3, 2025, 4:10 pm • 16 0 • view

Nonsense. They value being able to call them retards at 8 trillion.

apr 3, 2025, 4:16 pm • 3 0 • view

Has raising prices really ever been detrimental to wall street execs? Call me an optimist but I have faith those plucky execs will be just fine no matter how much prices go up.

apr 4, 2025, 2:26 am • 1 0 • view