"K-shaped" economic recovery

An economic recovery in which the wealthiest benefit or gain new advantages from the recovery while everyone else continues to suffer and for the some and most poorest maters continually gets worse.

The "k-shaped" economic recovery was not a recovery for the poor, it was a downward spiral into poverty.

by mlhiss September 10, 2020

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (ˈkaʊns(ə)l fɔ (r) ˈmju tʃuəl ˌi kəˈnɒmɪk əˈsɪst(ə)ns)

Meaning of Council for Mutual Economic Assistance in English:

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance

PROPER NOUN

historical
fuller form of Comecon

Origin
Translating Russian Sovet ékonomicheskoĭ vzaimopomoshchi.

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Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (ˈkaʊns(ə)l fɔ (r) ˈmju tʃuəl ˌi kəˈnɒmɪk əˈsɪst(ə)ns)

by ANCIENT_WOLFY January 19, 2022

Theory of Economic Social Control

The idea that your wallet is a primary tool for steering behavior. It examines how access to resources, job markets, debt, and consumer culture dictates your life choices and keeps you invested in the status quo. Control is achieved by making your survival and social worth dependent on playing by the system's economic rules.

Theory of Economic Social Control Example: The crushing weight of student loans and mortgage debt. This isn't just personal finance; it's a potent form of economic social control. Needing to make huge monthly payments makes you far less likely to risk your stable job by striking, protesting, or starting a radical business. It funnels you into a compliant, productive life path by leveraging your economic vulnerability.

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 7, 2026

Psychology of Economical Systems

The study of how human psychology shapes and is shaped by the systems that produce, distribute, and consume goods and services. Economics traditionally assumed rational actors maximizing utility; psychology reveals that humans are predictably irrational—loss-averse, status-conscious, prone to herding, and terrible at probability. The psychology of economical systems explains bubbles (herd behavior, overconfidence), crashes (panic, loss aversion), inequality (status seeking, positional goods), and the persistence of poverty (scarcity mindset, cognitive load). It also examines how economic systems shape psychology in return—creating desires we didn't know we had, defining success in narrow terms, making us feel like winners or losers based on arbitrary metrics.

Example: "She studied the psychology of economical systems during the housing bubble, watching otherwise rational people make obviously terrible decisions. It wasn't stupidity; it was psychology—herd behavior, overconfidence, the thrill of the gamble. The system encouraged it, exploited it, and collapsed when the psychology inevitably turned. The next bubble was already forming."

by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026

Generative Reparations Economic Model

A Generative Reparations Economy directs wealth, labor, and resources toward repairing historical and ecological harm while creating dignified livelihoods through community stewardship and cooperative ownership.

Instead of extracting value, the model circulates value.

The Core Economic Loop:

1. Repair
-restore waterways
-clean public natural spaces
-recover discarded materials

2. Creation
-transform recovered materials into art of useful goods
-provide ecological restoration services
-host educational workshops

3. Circulation
-sell goods and services
-reinvest revenue into worker wages and community funds
-expand restoration projects

This creates a living economic cycle of repair.

Repair the land.
Pay the people.
Circulate the care.

As capitalism continues to cause harm, navigating the late stages require innovative and creative solutions to support people, the earth and peace to navigate the transitons. The Generative Reparations Economic Model offers a pathway, paradigm and praxis for navigating social, cultural, consciousness and environmental shifts.

by New Earth Ambassador414 March 13, 2026

Hot Waitress Economic Index

Hot Waitress Economic Index (HWEI) is an unofficial and controversial economic indicator suggesting that when the economy tanks, suddenly all the servers at restaurants become ridiculously attractive because hot people who normally work better-paying jobs are forced to wait tables. The hotter your server, the more fucked the economy probably is.

The HWEI is one of the many weird indicators that people have used to make sense of the economy. Advertisements by the United States Marine Corps, sales of men's underwear, and even lipstick sales are just a few of them.

You can expect to see tougher marine recruitment ads on TV in a difficult economy because they meet recruitment goals quickly in down economies. They don't have to worry about scaring people away. Men's underwear sales will dip (that pair might last a little longer) and lipstick sales will go up because it's a relatively inexpensive personal luxury.

Kevin: Damn, my waitress last night was hot, why is she working at The Cheesecake Factory?? According to the Hot Waitress Economic Index, we're definitely heading for a recession.

by Sickomonster March 4, 2025

Healing Centric Economies

🌿 Healing-Centric Economies
New Earth Codes for Regenerative Exchange and Soul-Aligned Prosperity

Definition:
A Healing-Centric Economy is a post-patriarchal, post-extractional system of exchange rooted in the frequency of regeneration, reciprocity, and relational wealth.
It redefines prosperity as the well-being of people, planet, and spirit, rather than accumulation of profit or power.
Every transaction, trade, or offering in a Healing-Centric Economy is designed to restore energy, repair harm, and recalibrate balance — not exploit or deplete.

Ethical Mandate

A Healing-Centric Economy refuses to replicate the trauma of capitalism.
It decentralizes power, honors diversity, and transforms commerce into care.
It is economic alchemy — turning scarcity consciousness into sovereign sufficiency.

Affirmation / Manifestor

“I circulate my gifts through sacred reciprocity.
My work is a healing frequency.
Abundance is the pulse of the Earth moving through me.”

She left Wall Street to start a Healing-Centric Economy café where you can pay with gratitude, crystals, or community care credits.” ☀️💚

Healing Centric Economies are the path of the future of a world where our collective liberation is realized.

by New Earth Ambassador414 November 10, 2025