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Corporate profit margin increase since the pandemic:
Electricity/Gas supply 363%
Health/Social work 118%
Transport/Logistics 47%
Water/Sewage 44%
Mining/Quarrying 43%
Wholesale/Retail 36%
No govt curbs on profiteering.
Corporate power is cause of poverty.
#capitalism #corruption #taxtherich
Corporate profiteering is the main source of inflation and people’s never-ending cost-of-living crisis. Here’s why - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
Corporate profits soar to 30% higher than pre-pandemic levelsPrem Sikka (Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate)
This is what Steve Albini told us about. It's great that young artists highlight major-music-label theft even though they shouldn't have to...
Self-publishing saves artists a *lot* of grief...which is easy to say but true.
#BrokenRecord #MusicIndustry #SteveAlbini #music #capitalism #greed
TROM II: The Climate Report https://videos.trom.tf/w/9xVJBz21bqXeXWNhP1KqXH
#climatechange #climate #capitalism #trade #pollution #co2 #un
TROM II: The Climate Report
Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/videos.trom.tf
Criticize the world's largest oil company? They'll sue you!!
(And I promise they can easily afford more and better lawyers than you can. Not to mention bribing judges.)
⬛️ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/column-exxon-mobil-suing-shareholders-100046384.html
#Law #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Not in any way defending China here, but just pointing out the hypocricy of US ”free trade” rhetoric.
US free trade is free only as long as US companies benefit off it. Freedom flies out the door immediately when it’s companies are outcompeted.
Every large corporation…
[ Cartoon by @workchronicles ]
#comic #cartoon #satire #humor #corporations #capitalism #humour #sarcasm #comic
Total Trust: Surveillance State - https://www.videoneat.com/documentaries/26101/total-trust-surveillance-state/
Crazy documentary. It looks like a dystopian SF movie. I have no idea why people still watch movies when reality is many times more than any movie. More scary, funny, complex, interesting, mindblowing.
China is perhaps how the future will look like for people on this planet. Total control.
The world that capitalism and conservatives have created/destroyed:
"almost a fifth of the female climate experts who responded have chosen to have no children, or fewer children, due to the environmental crises afflicting the world."
#capitalism #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
‘I am starting to panic about my child’s future’: climate scientists wary of starting families
A fifth of female climate scientists who responded to Guardian survey said they had opted to have no or fewer childrenDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
TROM II: How do we put value on stuff? https://videos.trom.tf/w/dvdHC3wofWvGpQKDQ5me2D
#capitalism #trade #art #consumerism
TROM II: How do we put value on stuff?
Watch the entire documentary here - https://www.tromsite.com/documentaries/trom2/videos.trom.tf
‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about #recycling, report reveals
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/15/recycling-plastics-producers-report
#news #economy #pollution #capitalism #problem #waste #plastic #microplatic #environment #nature #manipulation #propaganda
‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals
Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study findsDharna Noor (The Guardian)
This is so annoying. 😡
Have you noticed that whenever corporate media decides to publish one of their rare articles about global warming, they almost always will headline it with a cheerful photo of people at the beach, or happily enjoying the sun?
It's a subliminal message.
Yes, the words you're reading might be alarming, but that's okay. We've got this. Business and industry and government will work together to solve the problem. There's nothing to worry about.
As you see here, these three young women are smiling as they relax by a fountain. Life is good!
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
The UK privatized its water. The US privatized its hospitals.
How's it working out?
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/07/business/steward-health-puts-hospitals-up-for-sale/index.html
They’re not yours, they’re theirs. Jeff Atwood thanks you for your free labour. (I’m kidding, he doesn’t. Feel grateful he even allowed you to contribute in the first place, serf.)
Speaking of Jeff Atwood, isn’t he the guy helping fund Mastodon now? 🤔
Update: been told Jeff left StackExchange a while ago so please substitute whichever Silicon Valley tech bro is currently running it.
#SiliconValley #PeopleFarming #JeffAtwood #surveillance #capitalism #AllYourDataAreBelongToUs
Truly an assault on the internet we've all helped build.
- "Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs" https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/07/stack_overflow_openai/
- "Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models": https://mashable.com/article/reddit-signs-ai-content-licensing-deal
- "WordPress and Tumblr will sell user data to train AI models: https://readwrite.com/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-user-data-to-train-ai-models/
#IndieWeb #internet #TheWeb #ai #llms #capitalism #enshittificaton
Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs
Microsoft-backed super-lab gets direct access to answers – and code forum gets its own AIThomas Claburn (The Register)
Yesterday, I watched and enjoyed Rossmann's video "Piracy is completely justified":
https://taonaw.com/2024/05/06/piracy-is-justified.html
#piracy #netflix #streaming #privacy #capitalism
Piracy is justified
Rossmann is a New Yorker who started his own computer repair business and came to fame by creating videos showing and teaching Mac repairs while rambling about Apple screwing their customers.taonaw.com
When these democratic elements threaten the power of the capitalist class, capital always turns to #fascism.
Every day for the last 50 years, the oil and gas industry has brought in $3 BILLION in profits. Not revenues. Profits.
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
That’s 💵 💵 💵 $52 trillion 💵 💵 💵 in pure profit, their payoff for happily destroying our climate and biosphere.
We need system change NOW.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years
Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expertDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Capitalism, working as designed.
#capitalism #newPosition #deceased #LinkedIn https://posts.rat.pictures/@hannah/112337586422565772
#Pay to stay: #Florida inmates charged for #prison cells long after incarceration
Not only can the state bill an inmate the $50 a day even after they are released, Florida can also impose a new bill on the next occupant of that bed, potentially allowing the state to double, triple, or quadruple charge for the same bed.
Capitalism at Its best...
#usa #jail #crime #fail #problem #news #money #finance #capitalism #politics
Pay to stay: Florida inmates charged for prison cells long after incarceration
It's a common saying: You do the crime, you do the time. But when people are released from prison, freedom is fragmented. It marks the start of new hardships, impacting families and communities.Kylie McGivern (ABC Action News Tampa Bay (WFTS))
"The developments over the past week mark a political turning point. The Biden administration, in alliance with the fascist-led Republican Party, has moved to criminalize political opposition to the Gaza genocide, currently centered on campuses, through a massive police state mobilization."
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/24/vcgw-a24.html
#USA #Biden #University #FreeSpeech #Crackdown #Imperialism #Capitalism #Israel #War #Genocide #Gaza #Protest
Biden launches police-state crackdown at US universities
The Biden administration, in alliance with the fascist-led Republican Party, is criminalizing political opposition to the Gaza genocide, the greatest war crime of the 21st century.World Socialist Web Site
Can wind and solar solve climate change? Foreign Policy magazine reviews a new book that "unwittingly makes the case that they can’t."
Here's their review of Brett Christophers’s "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet."
(Subscription may be required) https://flip.it/LT82MB
#ClimateChange #Solar #Wind #Climate #Capitalism
Why Wind and Solar Won't Solve Climate Change
A new book unwittingly makes the case that they can’t.Ted Nordhaus (Foreign Policy)
More like Earth Day 2024, am I right?
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Greenwashing
Corporate climate plans are improving, but still ‘critically insufficient’
New analysis finds "quite a big gap" between 51 companies' emissions targets and their plans to actually achieve them.Joseph Winters (Grist)
