I was just thinking a bit about taxes and fair shares and one of Jesus' parables popped into my head. See, the church has a flat tax system, or at least, the evangelical church does. Each member of the church is supposed to voluntarily give 10% of their income, which the church is very adamant that God will return to you with interest. I remember hearing stories from clearly well-off Sunday-school teachers telling of how they "used to struggle a lot financially" but would still find ways to make it fit in their budget, and now they were comfortable. This was a story told to children, mind you, and with adult retrospect I can think of some additional context I'd like to ask for in that story.
Only in a mainstream media devoted to covering up for fascists, could we still be reprinting Alito's bullshit excuse for why "his wife" was flying an upside down flag in solidarity with the Jan 6th 2021 attempted fascist coup, AFTER its been publicly revealed that Alito also flew an explicitly Christian Nationalist flag at his vacation home, ALSO associated with the coup
Dawg, it's your job to report AND analyze the news; reprinting fascist lies when you KNOW THEY ARE LIES is not journalism
I donāt know if I even have to read articles like this anymore. Wildcard the date, search and replace Alito/Kavanaugh/Thomas and add rightwing bullshit flava of the day.
Kavanaugh hasnāt been in the news for multiple cycles, I guess heās due. Him or Barrett or did they send her to the kitchen to cook yet, because, you know, thatās how this shit works.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the Radcliffe Institute: "There are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried. ā¦ There have been those days. And there are likely to be more." #SCOTUS
āWith the increased limit of the acceptance queue, and a patched version of wrk, we can now conclude that swift is a good competitor speed-wise as a web application server.
Memory wise it blows all the other technologies away, using only 2.5% of the amount of memory that the java implementation needs, and 10% of node-js.ā
"Kirk argued in the 1950s that if the American middle class ā then under half of Americans ā ever grew too large and well paid, then such access to āwealthā would produce a social disaster. His followers warned that under such circumstances minorities would forget their āplaceā in society, women would demand equality with men, and young people would no longer respect their elders.ā
So, every other subthread is someone talking #capitalism this and #socialism that with very poor commonality of definitions. So here's one to try on for size:
Capitalism: a system of economics in which the state determines through threat of violence a special group of people who have exclusive say in how capital goods are used.
That covers for example both the USA, and USSR pretty well. any other capitalist countries we'd like to discuss?
Another point on this is capitalism didnāt spring whole cloth from feudalism, it grew largely organically but also with coercions (enclosures). The general sense transitions are a matter of creativity and variety to address issues as they arise.
There are a couple of reasons. One enculturation. Two banking doesnāt understand them and itās a challenge. Three they face constant pressure to sell out. Four, consolidation in the economy.
Even though co-op stores are often far more efficient, they get hammered by existing whales.
Ace Hardware is a staple of local hardware stores in the US. Itās a coop of retail shops. These are of whatever nature. But they enjoy branding and economies of scale, some thing like HomeDepot.
Yanis Varoufakis explored a specific kind of coop in Another Now.
Itās on my pile and partially read, but I know from interviews that bonuses, investment v distribution are all addressed. Profits donāt exist here. Net proceeds are distributed, or invested. āprofitsā donāt property exist here. Also equity to gain a vote doesnāt figure into this outside perhaps a trial period.
Yes, Iāve pointed out the nature of Ace. I still wanna give you a wedgie.. āgive employeesā? Like because the unwashed need to have things ordered for them? You see where my discomfort is here?
@Cirdan the unfinished business of the enlightenment was to bring democracy to the work place. The last leg is monetary system reform. Usury+pricing mechanism is a core driver of inequality. You need inflation and interest free systems, as Gessell specifies in Friegeld. Such systems existed in the past, and some local systems exist today.
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Keen worked out the math. Credit + pricing system intrinsically drive inequality in down turns.