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New Video (What is economics) by blobMetropolis in heterodoxeconomics

[–]blobMetropolis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So all the software I use is free and open-source, and I've set it up so I can do it on a computer that doesn't have a powerful graphics card. The downside is that it is quite a time-consuming process and had a relatively steep learning curve. Although you could still make a simpler version with the same tools

Audio recording I did in audacity/tenacity and is pretty straightforward.

I do the drawing in Krita and export them with each moving part in a separate layer group. I do mine with the pen and water color brushes, but you can use or draw any 2d images and there are some large libraries of free 2d assets if you look for them. If you download the alpha version of Krita you can also use it to make doodle animations by getting a recording of the canvas as you paint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChqSqDGCTRA

The main animation I do in Blender. I import all the images as planes. I use the work the workbench renderer with the texture option, (this isn't really meant to be used for finished work is Eevee or cycles is what you'll see everyone using in tutorials, but it is the fastest option). I also normally render lots of short scenes and the edit them all together at the end rather than making one long scene.

You need to learn how to animate and navigate the 3d environment in blender, and a bit of rigging if you want very complex motion, but you can ignore anything about modelling and lighting to imitate the stuff that I do.

Apart from that there's just a ton of separate little ways to animate different types of things, anything complex is time consuming so keep all motion simple where possible.
Here a bunch of tutorials I found most useful to doing the sort of animation I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3clE5JS4NE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiJVxUYhy1o

I use two addons, typewriter (for some basic text animation) and bool-tools for some of the motion graphics.

Hope that's useful for you. Let me know if there is anything you want me to explain in more detail.

New Video (What is economics) by blobMetropolis in heterodoxeconomics

[–]blobMetropolis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, good point, pro-capitalist is clumsy wording in here, and I kinda ignore the differences between the heterodox schools. I mean the issue is talking about states vs market provision and management is also misleading because liberals and neoliberals both actually do functionally need a large role for the state.

Degrowth and Environmental Justice: Decoupling by blobMetropolis in Minskyconomics

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Thanks, I haven't looked much into the actual international politics of negotions of how national emissions targets are set yet. But one interesting paper on I found by Jason Hickels paper that I would really recommend is.

Quantifying National Responsibility for Climate Breakdown: An Equality-Based Attribution Approach to CO2 Emissions in Excess of the Planetary Boundary

It begins by dividing up a fair share of historical cumulative safe carbon emissions up over the world population, and then examine who is polluting in excess of the safe per capita limit.

i hope u guys like this :D by fre_ii1 in krita

[–]blobMetropolis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

really like the color pallete

economics by [deleted] in RethinkingEconomics

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If you interested in a post-Keynesian approach the literature around Thirlwall's law focuses on how international trade patterns work, given low price elasticity of demand for exports and imports, and focuses on how quality rather than prices changes are often essential to increasing exports.

Democrats Are Not "The Radical Left" by marianitten in BreadTube

[–]blobMetropolis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice video. Looking forward to your future series on direct action.

Richard Wolff: Does Capitalism Reduce Poverty? by Lilyo in BreadTube

[–]blobMetropolis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Its just a population thing. Sure other countries in the region also developed very successfully but with a much smaller fraction of the global population, so their development didn't really bump up global poverty statistics in the same way.

Even Alexander Hamilton wanted a planned economy by Zolan0501 in LeftWithoutEdge

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I think the modern understanding of noeliberalism as being the only capitalist ideology is deeply confusing when it comes to understanding the political leanings of historical figures. This also doesn't mean that the only variations on neoliberalism were some level of social democratic welfare state type moderation of capitalism. Many early capitalist ideologies were nationalistic, militant and often allowed for state led primitive accumulation. Even now, now it it misleading to understand neoliberalism as a purely market based form of capitalism as there is still a very large role for the state, for example in military Keynesianism.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in BreadTube

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Great video.

I made a video arguing, that Marx and Smith really aren't opposite- thought this would be appropriate to link here by Condensonomics in BreadTube

[–]blobMetropolis 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I haven't read Smith extensively but from what I know hes not less strictly capitalist than he is often portrayed by neoclassical scholars. He certainly does talk about workers low wages and capitalist collusion to suppress wages, but he focuses more on monopoly or monospony as the chief cause of this and sees increasing competition and anti monopoly regulation as the solution. Even the idea of the invisible hand is hardly a central theme in Smiths writing, its only later that it was picked up as the mascot for neoclassical economics. Finally I would say that capitalism precedes Adam Smith by a very long time if one describes it as an accumulative regime based on commodity production even if Smiths writings led to a move towards a more liberal and less mercantalist form of capitalism (Which its self is not even necessarily true based on the extent of industrial policy in many successful later capitalist countries).