Are you fed up? War, environmental destruction, inequality, racial and ethnic hatred, ugly yuppies who want to tell you what to do? It doesn’t have to be that way, don’t write yourself off! Become ungovernable today!
https://word.undead-network.de/2024/04/26/12722/
#EnvironmentalDestruction #EthnicHatred #inequality #racial #war #yuppies
The wealthy want you to think that poverty causes crime ("because the poor are stupid and immoral"). This is a lie they tell to protect themselves. Historically it is the wealthy -- specifically, the gap between themselves and the poor -- that causes crime.
By Thom Hartmann
FTA: ... Poverty doesn’t cause the societal disintegration that leads to most crime, it turns out: inequality does. And America is now, far and away, the most unequal developed country in the entire world.
While billionaires who pay less in federal income tax rates than you do blast themselves into space on giant penis-shaped rockets, the majority of Americans are struggling to get by. I say “the majority” because a decade ago the number of Americans who could call themselves “middle class” slipped below 50% for the first time since the Eisenhower era.
#Crime ##Poverty #Inequality #Fascism
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/crime-rate-in-america/
#economics #inequality #redistribution
Even a very cursory look at the fundamental equation which is A (aggregate supply) = C + I + G shows that if C (aggregate consumption) is a function of income distribution an obvious way to rebalance supply and demand is to “improve” income distribution, that is to transfer purchasing power from the rich to the poor. If $1 is transferred from a rich person who normally consumes only 50 cents, to a poor person who would consume 95 cents, aggregate consumption will increase. One can then fine-tune it until it closes the gap between the aggregate supply and the effective/aggregate demand. There is no need to introduce government spending, G.
The question is then, why was such an obvious path out of insufficient demand not taken by Keynes? He had in front of him two possibilities: one was to increase government spending; the second was to redistribute income towards the poor. The latter is an easier solution and entirely within the logic of the model itself, including within the logic of a new concept of “propensity to consume” which Keynes has introduced. But if income distribution is assumed unchanged or unchangeable, or if one does not want to touch income distribution for political reasons, then the only way out is the one taken by Keynes: increased government spending.
The Guardian
Anonymous street artist Foka Wolf uses the language of advertising to highlight political and social issues, from the PPE crisis to food banks. “I grew up in a low income, single-parent household,” he says, “so I take it very fucking personally when people in power try and demonise those who are broke and voiceless.” Known as the Birmingham Banksy (“I prefer Poundland Banksy”), Wolf has fooled countless people with his fake billboards. “There’s a lot of power in putting words on paper. One poster was offering students money to grow 23 pairs of ears on their back and quite a few people were up for it.” During tough political times, does it get harder to make satire? “Easier. More dickheads – more targets.” (...)
Tags: #art #street_art #protest #advertising #social_issues #food_banks #climate #climate_change #climate_crisis #social_services #inequality #poverty
#economics #inequality #wealthinequality
#ittakesmoneytomakemoney #trajectory
#assetmanagement #theeconomy
#values
To further accompany problem identification (than already done in the interview), here's a video of Gary Stevenson's about #solutions and #opportunity (to win the ideological theoretical debate) with the #povertymajority, big #demand for alternative, in #awareness of the #statusquo not working, and about helping people understand what's happening and build on that understanding ( #educateyourselfsoyoumayeducateothers ), reform, democratic pressure, ... not hopium to placate you back to defeated slumber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFHGiq063rA
... and while I'm at it, here's the explosive first interview from a year or so ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViY-zI3b5JQ
There are so many many portions I could have quoted from that interview. Hard to pick. Here's just a couple.
"a call to arms."
"... [the book is] a massive opportunity for me to spread awareness of these problems"
"...this beautiful and horrible irony that if you can convince poor and ordinary people to be very very selfish in a material sense, you will completely materially impoverish them."
"So this is this amazing irony that if you cam make poor people obsessed with getting rich, they'll become poor."
"It's kind of a moral test for our society: are you willing to put your selfishness aside enough to protect your selfish interests?"
"The rich have got so much money now, they have to do something with it, they can't just sit on it."
interviewer: "I think I saw a statistic ~ this is from 2019, it's probably worse now ~ one in six baby boomers is a millionaire. Right? That is... ~ if you want to talk about the people who do the door knocking for the conservative party, that y'know... they will vote in every single bloody election for the Tories and think the sun shines out of Jeremy Hunt's backside, even when they're as terrible as they are right now. You look at the polls, and who are these 25% of people? It's those people, and the people sort of immediately around them."
#politics #inequality #economics #collapse #tehnofeudalism
Inequality is the cause of all of our problems. The more people don't think about how money is distributed, WHO OWNS THE FUCKING DEBT, they'll get fucked and we'll go back to feudalism.
#meanwhileinirc
[2024-02- 9 09:51:48] <@Digit> .yt episode #194 ... Do we really need the police? - Anarchism pt. 3 - (Gelderloos, Security)
[2024-02- 9 09:51:49] 0,4 ► 1,0YouTube :: https://youtu.be/2lz__WYEDrY :: Episode #194 ... Do we really need the police? - Anarchism pt. 3 - (Gelderloos, Security) :: Duration: 31:55 :: Views: 5,208 :: Uploader: Philosophize This! :: Uploaded: 2024-01-27 :: 234 likes :: 0 dislikes :: 0 favorites :: 63 comments
[2024-02- 9 09:52:00] <@Digit> ^ speaks to " human nature "
did someone say human nature? you mean like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQnUFxoFqNY yes?
^ 0,4 ► 1,0YouTube :: Anarchism and Human Nature :: Duration: 18:44 :: Views: 25,267 :: Uploader: Libertarian Communist Platform :: Uploaded: 2018-05-06 :: 1,847 likes⏎
#philosophy #politics #police #laws #letterofthelaw #spiritofthelaw #specialclass #inequality #socialdivision #causeandeffect #causeoreffect #state #statemonopolyonvilence " #humannature " #intermediaries #socialbonds #localcommunity #anarchistphilosophy #anarchism #society #panopticon #specialisation #conflictresolution #deescalation #needsbased #responsivetoneeds #responsibility #individualresponsibility #mutualresponsibility #socialorganisation #malitia #confederacy #consider #imagine #peaceful #freedom
I have had an interesting new year and maybe its just me but patterns seem to emerge which I find interesting so I’m going to share these with anyone who cares.
I was about to embark on a great holiday around Asia until a doctor rang me and informed me that a CT scan I had just done showed I was about to die from heart failure. This was a bit of a surprise as I’m pretty fit and the only reason I did the scan was to try to find the reason for an arrhythmia I get after intense exercise.
So I stayed home in misery reading books and looking at heart problems on the internet hmmm.
Anyway the book I read was The Fate of Civilization by Michael Hudson and as I read it and read about heart health I saw a common theme
I have not delved to much into health just no smoking, fit, moderate diet but as I dived into the heart I found out about Nitic oxide. You might know about it but I didn’t. Nitric oxide is produced by the bacteria in the mouth and stomach as well as within the body by various processes and it is a key component in health from circulation to the immune system
When they discovered my heart condition I was prescribe aspirin and an anticoagulant, statins, beta blockers and a vascular dilation drug. Each one of these drugs either sapped my energy, ruined my sleep, upset my stomach, made me anxious or upset my heart rhythm. I actually felt terrible even though this was for my health.
To top it of each one of these drugs inhibited the formation of nitric oxide.
In The Fate of Civilization Michael Hudson showed that it was unearned income that is destroying our economy and society as well as our ability to save our environment. There are a lot of things around this such as debt and the belief that all debt must be paid but this all revolved around the belief that unearned income was a legitimate income and the ability to extract this must be protected.
The extraction of unearned income in the form of rents, interest, resource use and intellectual property is the major cause of our wealth disparity, it is the reason countries are kept in poverty and why our environment is degraded.
So what do nitric oxide and unearned income have in common?
I have heard no discussion of either of these topics outside of the alternative media. I go to my doctor, do a blood test and am offered statins which are an industrial solution to a problem caused by the industrial nature of our food. I will have a stent which is more industrial solutions and each one adds to GDP. My ill health creates economic benefit according to economists but it is the industrial system and those who own this system who benefit.
With unearned income in the form of rents or interest people are made poorer, demand declines and the countries debt expands, the solution we are told is austerity or a reduction in public services or privatization of our resources. These are the solutions proposed by those who have extracted the unearned income form our countries and their solutions will only benefit them again.
You might say I was told to eat my greens but to be honest I never realised why or the process involved from the greens to my health, I was never told about the role Nitic oxide played and maybe its because my doctor was never taught. This is the same as our economy, most of our economists have probably never heard of unearned income as they are taught all income is earned.
I then read this article about our duty to speak honestly. Now totalitarianism might be some distance from nitric oxide but it is closely linked to unearned income as this is the key that puts the one percent in the one percent.
So read or listen to Michael Hudson and learn about unearned income and talk about unearned income to anyone and everyone. We need to make it part of our language. Oh and don’t forget to eat your kale and beets you need a healthy heart to keep the conversation going.
cheers
here’s a link to Michaels site to
I forgot my hash tags
#economics #money #power #war #inequality #income #rent #manipulation #hearthealth #nitricoxide
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/12/25/this-govt-program-may-be-next-on-the-chopping-block-in-the-aftermath-of-landmark-scotus-affirmative-action-ruling-1422545/
The Democrats keep trying to bring back policies that failed.
#communism #inequality
Niemand von uns kann wissen, ob er oder sie in 5 Jahren #flüchten muss. Gibt es (Pläne für) soetwas wie eine (globale) #Versicherung gegen #Flucht? Diese #Flüchtlingsversicherung könnte finanziert werden von Firmen, die in der #Rüstung und der CO2-Förderung Geld verdienen, ggf. auch durch die #Tobinsteuer, also durch Institutionen, die an wachsender #Ungleichheit und Konflikten gewinnen. Die Verteilung und Verwaltung könnte durch UNHCR oder so organisiert werden.
Nobody of us knows if or when he or she becomes a refugee during the next 5 years. So is there something like (a plan for) a global #insurance for people who are threatened by losing their homes? This insurance could be financed by companies earning money with #arms and #CO2, or also by #tobin tax, short by all institutions that make a profit on growing conflicts and #inequality. #UNHCR could organise and control this #insurance.
#pandemic #uk #headstart #firsttheycame #context
falling since #2010, since the work capability assessment frauds, and the rest.
funny how we have paid with our lives, to pay for the crimes of bankers, and now we have bankers in parliament...
#poorest #inequality #stillgreat #greatbritain #hungryBritain #facethehorror #deregulatedbanking
#consider #wecanstillmendthis #itisgoodtoknow
#equality #socialsolidarity #socialstructure #organisecollectively
some other quote snippets:
"huge rise [in inequality] in the 80s, those who had most got more"
"and it plateaued"
"worst in europe and stayed there".
"imagine if we did that. imagine if we spent more on the quarter of children doing worst at school, what the result would be."
"enormous scope for how we can do things differently"
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ps, #SaveOurNHS #RestoreOurNHS
No slides found. Sorry.
Video's blurb:
3,137 views Premiered on 4 Dec 2023 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF MEDICINE
The UK had the highest life expectancy of the world's larger countries from 1950 to 1955. But every year from 2012 onwards, projections for life expectancy in the UK have been revised downwards by the ONS. What happened? The answer is austerity. Its impact was far deadlier than the COVID-19 pandemic.Life expectancy at birth is a key measure of the health of any given population – and Britain's is getting worse.
Other high-income countries also experienced falls or stalls in life expectancy between 2014 and 2015. However, when trends for 18 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries were examined, researchers found that all countries except the US and UK recovered with “robust gains” in 2015-16. The United States is very poor company to be in when it comes to public health.
In a talk given at the Royal Society of Medicine in London during the colloquium ”Recent advances in medicine and surgery” on Thursday 30 November 2023, Professor Danny Dorling looks at what happened – and who paid the price.
This is an audio-only recording of Professor Dorling's talk.
Visit https://www.dannydorling.org/?p=8871 to read the British Medical Journal editorial that this talk draws on, "The end of great expectations?" by Lucinda Hiam and Danny Dorling.
#health #happiness #anxiety #politics #elections #economics #decenthomes #qualityoflife #purchasingpower #humanrights #debt #deregulation #alwaysabetterway
& his book recommendation at the end: gavin francis free for all https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1313&_nkw=gavin+francis+free+for+all&_sacat=0
#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Pollution #Poverty #Inequality
The #Tories have a lot to answer for. The #GeneralElection can't come soon enough.
https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=SOReweZI92I
https://www.democracyatwork.info/economicupdate
#richardwolff #richarddwolff #wolff #economicupdate #socialism #left #politics #us #systemic-change #solutions #economics #capitalism #inequality #private #ownership #state #universal-suffrage #community #family #democracyatwork
A small convoy on the move to tackle a huge humanitarian crisis that grows by the minute in the besieged Gaza strip.Right now, 20 trucks carrying food and me...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Conflict #Inequality #Investigation #Islamophobia #Jerusalem #JoeBiden #JokoWidodo #JuanManuelSantos #JulianAssange #KhalifaHaftar #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Rafah crossing into Gaza: Red crescent delivering medicine and food
