jəˈrunˈprɑːt
Exactly what I said before. To stop climate change, we have to stop the #rich!
#climateCrisis #ClimateChange #capitalism %%%
RT @Jamie_Margolin@twitter.com
Dear rich people,
Don’t blame the climate crisis on poor folks.
Why?
The lifestyles of the richest 0.54% in the world — 42 million people — are emitting more greenhouse gas emissions than the poorest half of the global population —3.8 billion people.
jəˈrunˈprɑːt
Bee 1:
"The hive isn’t our property though, it belongs to the beekeepersl We can't take what Isn‘t ours. That's stealing!"
Bee 2:
"Listen to what I'm trying to tell you, Comrade. The hive doesn't belong to the beekeepers! The hive is the product of our labor! We built it, they Just put it in a box and called it theirs! Now they get all the surplus honey and we get barely enough to survive! That's the real theft!"
jəˈrunˈprɑːt
#AmazonFire #Amazonas #Amazonia #Brazil #Brasil #Bolivia #capitalism #anticapitalism #ecocide #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
stragu
"For the super-rich, giving is really taking. Taking power, that is, from the rest of society."
The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don’t rely on billionaires – Aditya Chakrabortty for The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/18/ruins-notre-dame-billionaires-french-philanthropy #paris #superRich #capitalism
Oneesan succubus
Hypolite Petovan
M. Grégoire
@y0x3y @ink_slinger Do you mean to say that #capitalism and #democracy are failing to solve #ClimateChange (true), or that they are failures altogether (false, IMHO)?
If we do solve climate change, then I suspect it will because of a third gift of #WesternCivilisation, science and technology. Of course, they (plus capitalism) were responsible for massive carbon emissions in the first place.
Brian Ó
This is a couple of years old, but still 100% relevant. Thanks to @[Henry Morgan](/people/a85d7459-125c-af90-a794-e50738745359) for the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI
#facebook #google #socialmedia #machinelearning #capitalism #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #dystopia
fridaysforfuture, but everyday
"Overpopulation is a Malthusian myth. There are 7.7 billion people. 95% of us occupy only 10% of the land.
We produce enough food to satisfy 10 billion people and can double that, in a more sustainable way.
We have a profit and distribution problem (#capitalism), not a people problem."
- @HamptonThink
Brian Ó
If you want to fight fascism, move left.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=agzNANfNlTs
#innuendostudios #politics #capitalism #democracy #conservatism
Brian Ó
Brian Ó
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH6qKBo0CDU
#threearrows #marketplaceofideas #germany #usa #politics #extremism #capitalism
TuttifruttiHat
"What needs to be done?
1. Restrict operations of #hedge funds and close tax havens;
2. Ban mortgage-backed securities and #derivatives;
3. Move towards 100 per cent reserve banking;
4. #Nationalise financial institutions that are ‘too big to fail’;
5. Re-institute the Glass–Steagall Act that placed a ‘Chinese wall’ between commercial banking and investment banking;"
#Financialisation
#Crisis
#Capitalism
TuttifruttiHat
"The ability to remain unaccountable to society despite having inflicted on it a grievous wound is the ultimate measure of #power. The bailout of the biggest US #banks, despite the obvious bankruptcy of some and the role they had all played in bringing about the worst economic #crisis in the US since the Great Depression, testified to the tremendous power that had been amassed by finance capital."
#Financialisation
#Capitalism
#Corruption
#Banks
TuttifruttiHat
"#Globalisation of production involved locating production facilities in low-wage countries to increase profitability. While these two strategies brought a rise in profitability in the short term, in the medium and long term they were self-defeating since they brought about a downturn in effective demand by cutting into or preventing the rise of workers’ #wages."
#Capitalism
#Financialisation
Hypolite Petovan
♲ @garrett@masto.a15a.co: Due to tax cuts and the rising costs of textbooks, some USA schools are receiving corporate sponsored education materials.
This is just as bad as you think it is.
A 1998 study by the Consumers Union found 80% of these materials to be biased.
The educational materials were found to have incomplete or “slanted” information that favored the sponsor’s products and views.
Examples in next toot:
#capitalism #consumerism #education
M. Grégoire
Perhaps what's missing is "Satisfy customer demands."
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages” --- Adam Smith
Unconventional Emma
An article from Sep 2017 explores the views of a Marxist economist, who sees parallels between the way #capitalism started and our current situations, in that it is from small changes at the ‘fringe’ that a new economic paradigm emerges: https://www.fastcompany.com/40467032/the-end-of-capitalism-is-already-starting-if-you-know-where-to-look. #postcapitalism
James
Idle thoughts: Big tech isn't going away willingly. I see a fair amount of talk about doing it harm, either legally or illegally. Wouldn't it be good to advocate for more government oversight, ie, sensible legislation. And at the same time push for small-scale solutions, such as those being talked about on forums like this. Can't these two approaches coexist? Different strokes for different folks.
#Google #Facebook #Amazon #Capitalism #Socialism #SocialMedia
Hypolite Petovan
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