Antanicus
"The U.S. and Europe, for instance, had similar population size and average income in 1980 — as well as analogous inequality levels. Both regions have also faced similar exposure to international markets and new technologies since, but their inequality trajectories have radically diverged. In the U.S., the bottom 50% income share decreased from 20% to 10% today, whereas in Europe it decreased from 24% to 22%."
Land Of The Free... to starve...
Antanicus
"Indeed, the U.S. is the extreme counterargument to the myth of trickle down: while incomes grew by more than 600% for the top 0.001% of Americans since 1980, the bottom half of the population was actually shut off from economic growth, with a close to zero rise in their yearly income."
Trickle down: the biggest scam in history.
https://hbr.org/2018/03/40-years-of-data-suggest-3-myths-about-globalization
Antanicus
@idmyn hello! Greetings from a fellow #UX designer and researcher :)
Antanicus
Antanicus
@eloquence no trace of the edit function? :)
Antanicus
"The maximum success never coincides with the maximum talent, and vice-versa,” say the researchers. So if not talent, what other factor causes this skewed wealth distribution? “Our simulation clearly shows that such a factor is just pure luck,” say Pluchino and co."
There's finally scientific evidence (if any was needed) the correlation between wealth and skill is so weak it's irrelevant. Social justice and equality, not mindless competition, are what the world needs.
nunatak 🚴
Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online
Alexandra Elbakyan runs Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic papers available for free to anybody in the world.
Antanicus
"Onism
n. the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that inhabits only one place at a time, which is like standing in front of the departures screen at an airport, flickering over with strange place names like other people’s passwords, each representing one more thing you’ll never get to see before you die—and all because, as the arrow on the map helpfully points out, you are here."
http://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/73524850764/onism
Antanicus
Antanicus
@webmind @StuC @mayel those are the best: fuck capitalistm, fuck productivity
Antanicus
"These traits are determined by genetics and are extremely hard to change. What’s more, the research is finding that if we fight our chronotypes, our health may suffer."
Fuck you capitalism for literally taking bits of my health off me every time I have to wake up earlier than my body wants to!
Antanicus
"WE MADE OUR BUSINESS MODEL SUBSCRIPTION-BASED.
MAKING OUR USERS OUR CUSTOMERS, NOT ADVERTISERS."
-https://www.vero.co/vero-manifesto/
Why settle for being just customers, when you can be the OWNERS of your social network? Come join us at https://social.coop and see what a truly open, cooperatively owned and democratically governed social network looks like.
Antanicus
"We are spending tens or maybe hundreds of megawatts on producing something that has no tangible existence and no real use for humans outside the realm of financial speculation," Smári McCarthy, and Icelandic member of parliament told the AP. "That can't be good."
Antanicus
"Exposure to economic words might be enough to inhibit compassion and concern for others, even among experienced executives. (...) Executives who unscrambled sentences with economic words expressed significantly less compassion. (...) After thinking about economics, executives felt less empathy"
https://evonomics.com/more-evidence-that-learning-economics-makes-you-selfish/
Just imagine what a 5yrs long economics couse does to a 20 something learning that stuff for the first time... Universities worldwide are basically sociopath factories.
Antanicus
@bilbono hello there, and welcome! :)
Antanicus
@ekaitz_zarraga and that's precisely why I oppose the "CW everything" movement on mastodon so much. Echo chambers are NOT the place we want to be.
Ekaitz Zárraga 👹
Maybe you didn't know this but my parents lived during the Fascism in Spain. Franco's dictatorship ended in 1975.
That's few years ago.
My grandparents lived during the Civil War.
My grandfather lost his home because of a bombing.
Now, let me tell you something:
I don't want the fascism word to disappear, I don't want people to forget what happened.
Memory is great thing, it helps to avoid the errors of the past.
Don't censor what happened as it can hurt someone. Remember, respect and honor.
zvyn.eu
Antanicus
@epilepticrabbit the core fact, often overlooked by many, is #FOSS outgrew the community model: despite what developers think and say, FOSS is deeply political in nature and is paving the way for a new mode of production. If we want FOSS to go anywhere, cooperatives need to replace communities in the open source space
KDE
Today Bhushan gives you pointers on how you can install Plasma Mobile on your phone using Halium and postmarketOS.
http://blog.bshah.in/2018/02/02/trying-out-plasma-mobile-part-two/
Remember: Plasma Mobile is preview software! Do not obliterate your work Android device yet!
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