A quotation from Steinbeck, John

Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: “After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?” Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picnickers on her property.

I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew — at least they claimed to be Communists — couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves.

John Steinbeck (1902-1968) American writer
Essay (1960-06-01), “A Primer on the Thirties,” Esquire

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A quotation from Shaw, George Bernard

The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British playwright and critic
Letter (1899-09-25) to Edward Rose

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Capitalism at work. This perfectly legal scam can cost you everything.

Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming back to life

FTA: Karen MacDonough of Quincy, Mass., was enjoying her tea one morning in the dining room when she sees something odd outside of her window: A group of people gathering on her lawn. A man with a clipboard tells her that her home no longer belongs to her. It didn't matter that she'd been paying her mortgage for 17 years, and was current on it. She was a nurse with a good job and had raised her kids here. But this was a foreclosure sale, and she was going to lose her house.

Karen had fallen victim to what's called a zombie second mortgage. Homeowners think these loans are long dead. But then the loans come back to life because they get bought up, sometimes for pennies on the dollar, by debt collectors who then move to collect and foreclose on people's homes.

Listen to hear the whole story.

This is an all-too-common example of If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Capitalists want your money and the system is rigged to allow them to take it.

This line from one of the people involved in the scam says it all: "An investor deserves to make their money back."

No, asshole. If you understood your own religion (capitalism), you'd realize that an investor deserves nothing. The reason investing makes you money is because it's inherently risky: You might actually lose money. You don't "deserve" anything you lying privileged piece of shit.

The same capitalist asshole later says of his victim, "Nothing is free in this world. If you take out a loan, you know what you signed-up for." Notice how he applies one standard to himself and another to his victims.

On the bright side, one solution to this problem (not in general, but at least in individual cases) is presented at around the 28:00 mark.

Reporting like this is why you should support your local NPR station. Just sayin'.

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https://www.npr.org/2024/05/10/1197959049/zombie-second-mortgages-homeowners-foreclosure

Why is it so hard to find labor news in MSM? ;-)

♲ John - 2023-09-15 22:53:25 GMT

https://labornotes.org/2023/09/auto-workers-strike-plants-all-three-big-3#UAW members expect campaign of terror from #management; #Teamsters to refuse to deliver vehicles

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● NEWS ● #DemocracyNow ☞ Noam #Chomsky on Rising #Fascism in U.S., #ClassWarfare & the #Climate Emergency https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/30/noam_chomsky_on_rising_fascism_in

The global concentration of personal wealth is extreme. According to the WIR, the richest 10% of adults in the world own around 60-80% of wealth, while the poorest half have less than 5%. (...) This is a similar result to the other important survey of global inequality of wealth produced each year by Credit Suisse. That report finds that just 1% of adults in the world own 45% of all personal wealth while nearly 3bn people own nothing. Wealth inequality is much higher than income inequality. But income inequality is still very high.

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2021/12/08/world-inequality/

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I'm hearing phrases like, "fix de Internet".
But "the Internet" is like "the cloud", it doesn't exist per se, as a real, material, particular entity.
As "the cloud" is in fact "some company's computers", "the Internet" is in fact mostly "the biggest companies that shape and control the infrastructure under the WWW from the last user to the first server/service".
So, "fix the Internet" is in fact, "fix capitalism".
I think there's a need to call things by their real name, if the desire is to fix or achieve something positive for society (mostly, the working class).
What do you think?

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