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@gerrymcgovern I deleted 79,125 'promotional' emails from my Gmail account yesterday.
Didn't think I really needed them.
Didn't think they were useful.
Why do I get so many of these completely useless messages?
Why is so much time and energy expended on these hopeless things that most people completely ignore?
And why should we keep storing them, year after year?
"The literature on degrowth routinely argues (appropriately so) that the global north rather than the global south must be the target for change, but it may well be that the vanguard for degrowth resides, paradoxically, in the global south. It may be that subconscious bias causes us to believe that the global south must catch up with the economic production of the wealthiest states, rather than encouraging us to imagine that the wealthy states need to catch up to the level of consciousness displayed by the most radical societies in the global south."
This essay by Jag Bhalla, on "The Dark Origins of Optimism and its Current Cheerful Evils", is one of the best pieces I've ever read on this. Maybe the best (also many links). Enjoy.
"As Voltaire knew, optimism is often an elite-serving demon in disguise"
"Workers at the first Apple store in the US to have unionized, in Towson, Maryland, have voted to authorize a strike as progress in bargaining for a first contract has stagnated.
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.