In coming years, eco-apartheid will become more prominent worldwide as colonial violence is used to maintain and safeguard Western interests and profits. We are seeing this future in Gaza today.
This is called Jevon's Paradox in economics.
Amazon will make billions from Black Friday.
Their workers across the country are protesting today, highlighting poor working conditions and Amazon's tax avoidance.
It's time the government stop the tax breaks and #MakeAmazonPay
I’m fed up of hearing politicians and journalists talking about immigrants as if they’re not people. Repost if you agree!🚨🚨🚨
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Palestine Action just scored a hat trick against genocide-complicit UAV Engines
With two visits to UAV Engines already this week, Palestine Action completed the triple today - targeting the factory roof with bricks
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024...
Studying social science I was horrified by dominance of rational choice theory, but reluctantly acknowledge it describes an aspect of human behavior (reductively). Seems that many who subscribe to economic policy it informs are contradictory in rejecting how revolutionary 15 minute cities could be.
White text on black: I love walkable neighbourhoods because I don’t wanna go far for stuff. No big conspiracy, I’m just lazy.
“I don't wanna go far for stuff"
My eloquent and powerful rebrand of the 15 minute city.
Studying social science I was horrified by dominance of rational choice theory, but reluctantly acknowledge it describes an aspect of human behavior (reductively). Seems that many who subscribe to economic policy it informs are contradictory in rejecting how revolutionary 15 minute cities could be.
Men skeet their own history, but they do not skeet it as they please; they do not skeet it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
Great quotes throughout out history replacing a word with skeet.
You must skeet the thing you think you cannot skeet. - Eleanor Roosevelt.
Your turn.
Men skeet their own history, but they do not skeet it as they please; they do not skeet it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
"With 240,000 children in poverty, and public services stretched to the breaking point, the need for action is clear.
That's why Tax Justice Scotland, a new campaign launched today."
#TaxJusticeScotland
www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2474...
The vote at the UN on Adoption of the #UNTaxConvention Terms of Reference is today. This is potentially transformative for the world and likely won't be covered by journalists. Watch @taxjusticenet.bsky.social for comment. Eurodad press release is here: www.eurodad.org/un_vote_on_w...
The OECD claims to have ended bank secrecy by adopting one of our longstanding transparency proposals. Our new infographic puts the claim to the test.
taxjustice.net/2024/11/20/d...
The work I have offered addresses this lack of clarity directly. It is hard to agree or disagree with its position without listening to the podcast or reading the paper. I am not surprised that class is poorly understood as the causal powers of social structures has been suppressed for many decades.
For me, Lillian Cicerchia explores this question brilliantly in 'Why Does Class Matter?'
youtu.be/EBki4rwgDsA?...
What is the working class? Many invoke it in this election, but no one defines it. How much is it economic, when a plumber can make 10x as much as adjunct professor? How much is it cultural/an identity, or the kind of labor? Why so many 1930s white-guy versions when so many are women and BIPOC?
"not just because it creates economic groups in which some are rich and others are poor, but because competition creates conditions that militate against solidarity, toward cleavage and conflict. Class is a constraint on collective self-determination and, therefore, a source of domination."
"who or what is the working class and what is wrong with the situation that members of this class share. It argues that class divisions impose a unique harm for a diverse and interdependent group within capitalist societies both in spite and because of differences among group members."
For me, Lillian Cicerchia explores this question brilliantly in 'Why Does Class Matter?'
youtu.be/EBki4rwgDsA?...
Why Does Class Matter?
!["What financialization actually means is they collude with the
government through various elaborate forms of bribery to
change the law so as to put everyone deeper and deeper in debt,
directly turning their income over to the FIRE [finance, insurance,
and real estate] sector.
I don’t know the exact numbers though it’s telling that you can’t
get these numbers but something around 15% to 25%, at least,
of average American household income is directly removed in
the form of interest, penalties, fees, insurance and so on."
- David Graeber](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6druhi7f7xq6ggam4hrcsmyx/bafkreift2b5fr3uveabbk57pbthwyt7jy4w6pc2lxo7qzp5jftbmhov7i4)
"What financialization actually means is they collude with the government through various elaborate forms of bribery to change the law so as to put everyone deeper and deeper in debt, directly turning their income over to the FIRE [finance, insurance, and real estate] sector. I don’t know the exact numbers though it’s telling that you can’t get these numbers but something around 15% to 25%, at least, of average American household income is directly removed in the form of interest, penalties, fees, insurance and so on." - David Graeber
Back in 2014, David Graeber wrote the piece: Finance Is Just Another Word for Other People’s Debts.
It provides a focus of Finance Capitailsm from the inside!
davidgraeber.org/interviews/f...
It's being really sarcastic. I got 'millionaire' & 'prostitution'
Back when it was the FSA one of its employees was listed as a bribe taker in the Bonny Island case. I wonder what they'll rename it this time.
Labour's latest attack on welfare is a disgraceful assault on the dignity of the sick and disabled.
If the government really wanted to crack down on people "gaming the system", they would go after tax dodgers hoarding our country's wealth.
