I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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talking to a coworker last night who moved here from pakistan i believe. i think he maybe had a higher standard of living there than he does here. life expectancy is much higher here. he described his situation here as just surviving. he has 3 kids and cheated on his wife.
i feel like housing prices / rents relative to incomes is one of the most over looked aspects of the destruction of the middle class
i feel like housing prices / rents relative to incomes is one of the most over looked aspects of the destruction of the middle class
Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff 2h2 hours ago
Struggles of boss against worker (master vs slave, lord vs serf, employer vs employee) undermine economic productivity and social peace.
By instituting workplace democracy, worker co-ops end those struggles and make a better society. #CureForCapitalism
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Struggles of boss against worker (master vs slave, lord vs serf, employer vs employee) undermine economic productivity and social peace.
By instituting workplace democracy, worker co-ops end those struggles and make a better society. #CureForCapitalism
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Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff 2h2 hours ago
In worker coops, each worker has one vote in deciding what, how, and where to produce and how to use the profits all helped to produce.
Bringing democracy into the workplace: just where capitalists have for so long kept it out. #CureForCapitalism
In worker coops, each worker has one vote in deciding what, how, and where to produce and how to use the profits all helped to produce.
Bringing democracy into the workplace: just where capitalists have for so long kept it out. #CureForCapitalism
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Doesn’t mean your vote will win.
yea im not super familiar on the problems with democracy, but all the guys i listen to are in favor of democracy as a solution to concentrated power.
one of the provinces might change its voting system to proporational representation instead of first past the post where you get all the power and a minority of votes.
Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff 3h3 hours ago
Workers want democratic workplaces partly because they are the majority there. Capitalists oppose democracy there because they are a minority. Which side are you on? #CureForCapitalism
Workers want democratic workplaces partly because they are the majority there. Capitalists oppose democracy there because they are a minority. Which side are you on? #CureForCapitalism
so i had this moment where these voices were yapping at me inside my head....i believe its called "thinking".
what i thought was that when a corrupt president finishes his time in office, depending on which media network you watch they will give him glowing reviews talking about his legacy.
when someone dies, we tend to remember only the good.
and when i talk with immature
s on BC, they have their head in the sand when it comes to capitalism and tend to repeat government rhetoric like the sheep in animal farm "FOUR LEGS GOOD, 2 LEGS BAAAAAAAD".
which brings me to my conclusion that our society trains people to not be able to honestly deal with the fact that the things or people in life that we associate ourselves with may be rotten and that we may have made a bad choice.
what i thought was that when a corrupt president finishes his time in office, depending on which media network you watch they will give him glowing reviews talking about his legacy.
when someone dies, we tend to remember only the good.
and when i talk with immature
s on BC, they have their head in the sand when it comes to capitalism and tend to repeat government rhetoric like the sheep in animal farm "FOUR LEGS GOOD, 2 LEGS BAAAAAAAD".which brings me to my conclusion that our society trains people to not be able to honestly deal with the fact that the things or people in life that we associate ourselves with may be rotten and that we may have made a bad choice.
so on a work day ill use my car 1 hour a day which is 4% of the time. its sitting unused 96% of the time. most consumer private property sits unused more than 95% of the time.
but regarding cars, it gets even worse. i am only using less than 25% of the space in my car. so alot of the pollution is just based on moving around metal which is unused. if i am using 25% of the space in my car, then i likely have more engine power than i really need.
capitalism is a terribly inefficient system and its tied to the environmental crisis.
dont be fooled.
but regarding cars, it gets even worse. i am only using less than 25% of the space in my car. so alot of the pollution is just based on moving around metal which is unused. if i am using 25% of the space in my car, then i likely have more engine power than i really need.
capitalism is a terribly inefficient system and its tied to the environmental crisis.
dont be fooled.
Existential Comics @existentialcoms 4h4 hours ago
The "free market" is a weird name for the style of economy where a few people own all of the productive capacity, and therefore dictate how and what we produce.
The "free market" is a weird name for the style of economy where a few people own all of the productive capacity, and therefore dictate how and what we produce.
Then show the way by moving out of your mom's basement and into your car. You'll help save the planet, and your mother will thank you for it.
that would be more efficient use of cars...
Lead the way!
camper van life is coming. unless i peace to EU before then
UK and america followed similar economic policy of privatization, gutting government programs, and both have falling or flat wages:
despicable. cut dept of war spending and give it to the old so they can decently retire:
also supports chris hedges and cornel wests assertion that 50% of the population is either in or near poverty.
Alexandria Ocasio-CortezVerified account @Ocasio2018 Nov 9
40% of ALL Americans currently struggle to pay for one basic need like food or rent.
As much as @FoxNews likes to mock the working-class, the real scandal is that at the wealthiest point in our history, we are at one of our most unequal.
Most Americans are barely scraping by.
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Alexandria Ocasio-CortezVerified account @Ocasio2018 Nov 9
40% of ALL Americans currently struggle to pay for one basic need like food or rent.
As much as @FoxNews likes to mock the working-class, the real scandal is that at the wealthiest point in our history, we are at one of our most unequal.
Most Americans are barely scraping by.
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