Albanien ein lange isoliertes Land lernt jetzt die volle destruktive Kraft des #Kapitalismus kennen. Mafiösen korrumpierenden Strukturen gefällt dies natürlich.
Reading through #pressreset by Jason Schreier and it triggers me so much.
That’s an essence of what is wrong with this world. This obsessiveness over exponential growth. #capitalism with no safeguards that can burn the world to ashes. Exterminating every authentic bit for the sake of optimizing for raw profit.
That’s not what games should be about. That’s not what business should be about.
You may be privy to or unfamiliar with how the ultra-wealthy are taking advantage of the system. Either way, you’ll find this report by @ProPublica to be staggering. The facts are clear: there is a class war, and we’re losing.
“…it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most.”
Reuters review of TX property records shows SpaceX & its contractors can be far slower to pay builders, suppliers than they are to break ground. Unpaid bills, finger-pting among contractors have led many construction-industry businesses to file liens against SpaceX properties in efforts to get compensated.
I'm glad to see people finally starting to comment on these things more everywhere: Why again are we worshipping rich celebrities? I love creativity, I enjoy good beats and I think fashion can be a wonderful way of expression. But why do we worship rappers bragging about private jets? Why is it normal that insane amounts of money are spent at events like the Met Gala when ... well. Look at the world. I want to hear songs bragging about using power for good, not jets.
Why not start the day with a little political economy
For those of you new to the idea that money is primarily the result of private credit creation in the banking sector, here's a nice (concise) summary of the position, linking the history of money, the role of the state & the importance of banks credit creation activity.
The key point, is there is no 'natural' economy, only one made from rule/laws of exchange & state interventions.
"The sickness of capitalism, Israel's war in Gaza & German complicity"
"Trotsky was a great literary critic. Even in the middle of the Civil War in Russia, as he was going in his famous iron car from front to front, he was writing literary criticism.
"So I think I did make a mistake in pursuing my work beyond the point where the returns made it a wise thing to do".
The ever readable Kenan Malik joins the dots between exploitation of seafarers by P&O, globalisation & the success of Dubai (built on more exploitation of workers), to (rightly, to my mind) to re-emphasise that this all looks pretty much like the economics of class.
Call it what you will; global capitalism, corporate capitalism, neoliberalism, etc.
in the end the political economy of class relations never went away, it was just obscured.
I was back at my first job at iRobot. Some manager I currently follow on linked in last night had re-hired me.
I was excited to just make money again.
Howerver, I didn’t go to work on my second day because of burnout/depression.
I didn’t go to work on my third day because of the anxiety caused by not letting my employer know what was going on.
On the 4th day I went to work. They mocked my apology when I finally talked to them. While I was gone, manager and his friend coworker stormed the corporate housing I was staying at and put all my stuff on the street. They kicked me out and kept mocking me…