Allez, hop hop hop, j'ai réuni assez de gens et de motivation pendant mon arrêt de travail pour lancer les premiers ballons d'essai pour monter un #FAI associatif à #Gap – déjà pour des connexions radio, parce-que c'est économique et que la géographie de la ville s'y prête bien.
J'ai contacté #Rézine – où je suis encore adhérent – pour voir comment ils peuvent nous appuyer, mais je prends tous les contacts et les encouragements nécessaires pour ça.
Nobel Laureate economist #Angus#Deaton has delivered a ferocious rebuke to his own profession, saying economists have failed to understand that ⭐️capitalism is about power.⭐️
Deaton lobs a series of truth bombs at his own profession, the result, he says, of “changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practising economist for more than half a century”.
These include:
🔸“We have largely stopped thinking about #ethics and about what constitutes human #well-#being”.
🔸If “economists should focus on efficiency and leave equity to others, to politicians or administrators… 🔹the others regularly fail to materialise🔹, so that when efficiency comes with upward redistribution
— frequently though not inevitably
— our recommendations become little more than a #license for #plunder”.
🔸“#Historians, who understand about contingency and about multiple and multidirectional causality, often do a better job than economists of identifying important mechanisms…”
🔸Far from being “a nuisance that interfered with economic (and often personal) efficiency”, #unions “once raised wages for members and nonmembers, they were an important part of social capital in many places, and they brought political power to working people in the workplace and in local, state, and federal governments.
🔸Their decline is contributing to the falling wage share, to the widening #gap between executives and workers, to community #destruction, and to rising #populism.”
🔸“I am much more sceptical of the benefits of free trade to American workers and am even sceptical of the claim, which I and others have made in the past, that globalisation was responsible for the vast reduction in global poverty over the past 30 years”.
🔸Immigration contributes to inequality.
But Deaton’s main point is a recognition of how #power distorts #policy:
“Our emphasis on the virtues of free, competitive markets and exogenous technical change can distract us from the importance of power in setting prices and wages, in choosing the direction of technical change, and in influencing politics to change the rules of the game.”
RT by @cem_oezdemir: Auch beim 🇪🇺-#Agrarrat auf der Tagesordnung: #Tierschutz und Gemeinsame Agrarapolitik.
Bundesminister @cem_oezdemir mahnt bei der #GAP eine grundlegende Reform an – vor allem in Bezug auf die #EU-Erweiterung!
Mehr: ⬇📺
This is what you get when you severely underpay your workers. Also affected are #Gap, #Walmart,#Zara, Inditex, Bestseller, #MarksAndSpencer, Primark and Aldi.
#Levi's and #HnM are among top global clothing brands to suffer production halts in #Bangladesh, a garment union leader said Friday, after days of violent protests by workers demanding a near-tripling of their wages. #LaborUnrest
The title for the 12ft link to the SMH article is "Police should not be responsible for Closing the Gap targets, says commissioner", which is accurate, but even after a quick skim of the actual report, seems to very much understate the problems. This quote buried in the report is an example:...
And possibly my proudest #TieDye achievement so far. I found a white linen dress on the “final sale” rack at #Gap for under $10 (marked down from about $90). It was a size too large, but I bought it anyway and altered it to fit better. Then tie dye! I wasn’t sure if this would work at all, so I’m highly pleased with the result. Yay!! Now summer just needs to come back! 🍉🍉🍉💃🏻
Le climat se réchauffe toujours plus, nous sommes en restriction d'eau, les fontaines municipales sont presque toutes tout le temps coupées, les stations de ski autour de la ville ne tiennent que grâce aux canons à neige.
Mais que veut faire notre bon maire de #Gap, #RogerDidier, toujours à contretemps ?
Un miroir d'eau de plusieurs centaines de mètres carrés, convertible en patinoire l'hiver.
Eventually they "requisitioned" a train that should have gone 1 station further to #Gap, but for those passengers a following train was coming 1h later. And with that train, we reached #Marseille before midnight, just 1h delay too.
And btw the other #train belonged to another région (although on loan), which means also that nothing's impossible with some will.
C'était inespéré avec mon genou encore en rééducation mais le kiné m'a donné son autorisation : je prends un train de nuit pour Briançon ce soir pour 4 jours, je n'ai aucune idée d'où dormir ni quoi faire comme balades 😱.
Il y a des #randos (marche ou vélo) accessibles en transports ou à vélo, sans passer par les célèbres gros cols de la région que je ne pourrai pas grimper ?
[NSW] Police frequently ignore Coroner's Office and Law Enforcement Conduct Commission about over-representation of Aboriginal people in criminal justice system, contradict own goals, don't report required data, & other failures. (12ft.io)
The title for the 12ft link to the SMH article is "Police should not be responsible for Closing the Gap targets, says commissioner", which is accurate, but even after a quick skim of the actual report, seems to very much understate the problems. This quote buried in the report is an example:...