When I was assembling my last book (Corporations: A research agenda), I became quite interested in Mondragon in Spain as an alternative way of organising businesses (and featured them in the book).
Somehow I missed this recent profile on the Spanish Cooperative conglomerate. It make for an interesting read when we are told there is no other way of running firms in capitalism.... because clearly there is!
"Despite all this, renewable electricity generation is expanding. Christophers forensically dissects the economics, showing that 'market forces' have played little or no part in this."
Now this one might be a little heated, but an example of this happening is the game Stellar Blade, whilst it is still a good game, there was also a sex appeal to it which they cut out the jiggle physics and sultryness out of the game before release....
No corporation or private entity should be allowed to own land (property). Land should belong only to those who live and work there.
Discuss... #Capitalism#Socialism#Communism#Auspol
“the way bubbles work is structurally identical to Ponzi schemes—what a coincidence!—and indeed it’s another amazing coincidence how much the entire capitalist economy resembles in its basic structure either a Ponzi scheme or a bundle of Ponzi schemes.”
Excellent and hard hitting Episode of the Common Weal Policy Podcast on profit extraction from Scotland. Yet another example of the fact that globalised #Capitalism benefits no one but the ultra rich.
The Common Weal Policy Podcast: Episode #209 - Profit and Politics
New York Times business editor Andrew Sorkin seeks an economic boycott on anti-genocide students.
He wrote in a column:
“Many business leaders have told me they are deeply concerned about incidents of harassment against Jewish students that have taken place at and around universities like Columbia”
“Companies could tell universities that they won’t hire their students”
“Wall Street, private equity and venture capital firms may uniquely have [a pressure point]: They could threaten to stop managing the endowments” of the universities.
“Examining D.E.I. policies [Diversity, equity, and inclusion] [...] What would happen if the Wall Street firms also sent such questionnaires to the universities before deciding to work with them as clients?”
“The most common course of action so far has been to pull back on individual donations.”
Big thank you to #Myki, who were so incompetent that the first generation Myki on my phone has expired. This means that for the rest of my life I can get waved through the gates by station staff who will tell me, when I look perplexed, oh, they're not supposed to expire, ring the 1-800 number. #capitalism is the best. @fakemetrotrains
"Oxfam said analysis of global data showed that dividend payments to shareholders over the last three years grew an average of 14 times faster than worker pay across 31 major economies"
The #AngloSaxon capitalist model ruined earth for humanity and many other species. #BigOil has been its undertaker, b/c #BigOilKnew.
If capitalism hadn't made the #GreenRevolution possible, human society would already have reached the #overshoot (1) point at the end of the last century:
In 1968, the #biologists Paul and Anne #Ehrlich wrote the book The #PopulationBomb"...
B/C I'd argue that it was chiefly developed in the UK and the US, e.g. #Wiki:
"Capitalism in its modern form emerged from agrarianism in England, as well as mercantilist practices by European countries between the 16th and 18th centuries. The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century [which started in the UK] established capitalism as a dominant mode of production, characterized by factory work and a complex division of labor...became more regulated...
...in the post–World War II period through Keynesianism [English], followed by a return of more unregulated capitalism starting in the 1980s through *neoliberalism...
Scholars tended to associate it with the theories of economists working with the Mont Pelerin Society, including Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises and James...
...referring to one tribe that invaded the British Isles (Angles) as pars pro toto would not improve clarity, I think...Besides, they came from what us now northern Germany. 😉
Controversy and Censorship
Now this one might be a little heated, but an example of this happening is the game Stellar Blade, whilst it is still a good game, there was also a sex appeal to it which they cut out the jiggle physics and sultryness out of the game before release....