Working in a collective instead of traditional company structures has its upsides and downsides. today we want to tell you some of the positive aspects presented as 5 takes on the topic 🦥
I am sick of the talking heads on the news telling me how great "the economy" is because the stock market is soaring and unemployment is low.
Fist, "the economy" is a euphemism for "rich peoples' yacht money".
Second, I don't own any stocks. I don't know anyone who owns stocks.
The top 1% own more than half of all the stocks.
Third, unemployment being low is just a way of saying wages are so low and cost of living is so high that grandpa and grandma had to end their retirement and go back to work to help pay the rent.
I don't care about stocks.
Tell me the average rent is 30% or less than the monthly wages for a single person working for minimum wage.
Tell me grandpa can go back to fishing and and building bird houses because the bills are covered.
Tell me families don't have to choose between the electric bill and groceries.
Capitalism isn't working for us. It perpetuates inequality by concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a few, leading to social divisions. Profit-driven systems exploit the working class, create economic hierarchies, and prioritize private interests over communal well-being. A stateless, classless society where resources are collectively owned and distributed based on need is the cure to capitalism. #anticapitalism#endcapitalism#workersunite
Will the Supreme Court Weigh In on a Law Before It’s Even Passed?
The conservative legal movement wants the court to preemptively kill a major liberal policy idea
Corporations continue to think they can bully and delay so that working people never win a fair contract. #SolidaritySummer continues with working people who are on strike or ready to strike to put the pressure on #GreedyCEOs
"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdrawal,”mass defection by those wishing to create new forms of community.
One need only glance at the historical record to confirm that most successful forms of popular resistance have taken precisely this form. They have not involved challenging power head on (this usually leads to being slaughtered, or if not, turning into some—often even uglier—variant of the very thing one first challenged) but from one or another strategy of slipping away from its grasp, from flight, desertion, the founding of new communities.”
Seven years after I recorded it, the lyrics to “When Mom Was Young” have never been truer. Despite all additional information humankind has gathered over that time, humans produce more CO₂, not less; buy more SUVs, not fewer; travel more, not less; and criminalise those who protest and demand the 2016 Paris Climate Accords be fulfilled (like the courageous young people from the “Last Generation”) rather than those in power who refuse to fulfill the Paris Climate Accords because they are in the pockets of Big Oil.
For those who don’t find it obvious, the “Mom” the song refers to is our mother Earth. The basis for the rap part is a mash-up of Edvard Grieg’s “Åses død” (“The Death of Åse”) from “Peer Gynt” and the lead melody of the song. Here’s the rap lyrics:
Little do we notice, little do we see
Patient’s in a coma, we still can’t agree
To get her tired body to the ICU
Still we don’t act on the simple truth
Our mom is dying of our carelessness
We beat her, choke her, cause her airlessness
We still exploit her though we do know better
We act like seven billion mad hatters