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A fine is just that: itβs fine. Just pay us a cut of your profits and keep doing what youβre doing.
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.
Thatβs π΅ π΅ π΅ $52 trillion π΅ π΅ π΅ 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 sectorβs βstaggeringβ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years
Vast sums provide power to βbuy every politicianβ and delay action on climate crisis, says expertDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Capitalism works best regulated by democratic socialist laws.
Even Marx understood the power and benefit of capitalism.
The challenge is maintaining the democratic regulation of capitalism.
One of the primary ways to do this is to regulate capital. Those institutions and individuals with the most capital must be regulated the most to provide social services for everyone.
Socialism is the regulation of capitalism, it is not the abolishment of capitalism.
@Radical_EgoCom
During the time of Marx, the term "socialist" referred to a utopian vision where there is no capital and everyone shares everything. Marx was against this form of utopian socialism. What I hear you both talking about is a form of utopian socialism that is unrealistic in the same sense that Marx disagreed with it.
The form of communism that Marx was proposing was a regulation of capital.
I don't make a strong distinction between socialism and communism as I believe we need to work together against the fascists and against the capitalists.
Being anti-capitalist is not the same as being against capitalism.
I would urge you to not be utopian and to be more pragmatic. I've been referred to "pragmatic anarchism" recently,, which I would recommend over any utopian form.
Again, it is pragmatic to regulate capitalism in a modern form of socialism / communism.
#socialism #communism #capitalism #anticapitalist #antifa #nonutopian #anarchism #pragmaticanarchy #anarchy
@Radical_EgoCom
A plan needs steps. Steps are discrete.
I am inspired by Richard Woolf's lectures and "Democracy at Work" movement.
His plan gives some concrete steps for how to move toward changing traditional authoritarian capitalist controlled corporations to democratic worker-owned corporate structures.
Again, these non-utopian steps toward democratic power structures must exist within a capitalist system,, at least for the time being.
Saying that we should get rid of capitalism, or "capitalism is bad", is not a realistic first step. That would be utopian because it wouldn't make sense as a first step.
#socialism #democracy #democracyatwork #richardwolff #communism #workerowned #coop #cooperative #capitalism
Capitalism has nothing to do with democracy. In fact, capitalism functions best when democracy cannot interfere.
Thatβs why β putting their dishonest and misleading rhetoric aside β capitalists *always* oppose democracy and will seek to shut it down. Theyβll keep up the pretense, waving a flag of freedom πΊπΈ while in reality disabling democratic processes and choking freedom out of existence.
Capitalism, working as designed.
#capitalism #newPosition #deceased #LinkedIn https://posts.rat.pictures/@hannah/112337586422565772
Wario deβ Medici (@hannah@posts.rat.pictures)
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#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))
TROM II: The pointless of politics https://videos.trom.tf/w/pscRtAv48ZbKbFrjwy1vU3
Politicians chew the same gum for centuries now. They speak, but say nothing.
#politics #capitalism #trade #lies #biden #trump #democrats #democracy
"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
I collect distinctions between liberals and conservatives. I loved this one from Steven Brust by way of Cory Doctorow:
ββLeftβ and βrightβ mean the same thing today that theyβve meant since the French Revolution. Ask someone, βWhatβs more important: property rights, or human rights?β If they answer: βProperty rights *are* human rights,β they are on the right.β
ββCapitalists Hate Capitalismβ
https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/
Cory Doctorow: Capitalists Hate Capitalism
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we donβt want our property values to decrease wβ¦Locus Online
Can wind and solar solve climate change? Foreign Policy magazine reviews a new book that "unwittingly makes the case that they canβt."
Here's their review of Brett Christophersβs "The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Wonβt 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 canβt.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 βcritically insufficientβ
New analysis finds "quite a big gap" between 51 companies' emissions targets and their plans to actually achieve them.Joseph Winters (Grist)
TROM II: Unconscious Media Manipulation https://videos.trom.tf/w/g59bwQcNRCdcZsA92JCPJk
Movies/Music/Books are not just that. Often times they are a marketing tool and many people may be clueless about the fact that they insert product placements everywhere.
All along they've told us it would be so easy... just recycle some of your trash, or ride a bike once in a while, and everything will be fine.
There's no need to even *think* about system change. π
#Pollution #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Greenwashing #Environment #Climate #Degrowth
Experts ignoring the elephant in the room, younger generations are sick and tired of CAPITALISM, it's not 'smartphones' or whatever bullshit excuse the Media comes up with, it's the very toxic society you've forced on us which is making us ill.
#MentalHealth #Capitalism #UKPOL #Ukpolitics
#protest #quote #wisdom #uk #usa #health #healthcare #humanrights #politics #capitalism #finance
β² Muse - 2024-04-17 22:25:01 GMT
People outside the US really have no concept of what it's like inside that country. They haven't for decades.
I try to keep this in mind whenever I read about events in another country. We always see such a tiny slice of the situation.
βConflict is a reliable way to know whether or not you're a leftist. As Steven Brust says, the way to distinguish a leftist is to ask "What's more important, human rights, or property rights?" If you answer "Property rights *are* human right," you're not a leftist. Leftists don't necessarily oppose all property rights - they just think they're less important than human rights.β
- @pluralistic
β#Capitalists Hate #Capitalismβ
When @Georgi shared a video from our documentary on Facebook and wanted to tag @Be Brave To Act Facebook page, she had no option but had it appeared as if this was a "paid partnership" with @Dima 's page. haha. Because as I said before, Facebook is not a "social network" it is an ad platform, so they naturally see these "taggings" between pages as partnerships.
#facebook #capitalism #ads #trade
TROM II: Mountains of Waste https://videos.trom.tf/w/2tA9iTuPGmDdTRZSNF4GoZ
#waste #pollution #climatechange #ewaste #capitalism #trade #TradeRuinsEverything
(Neoliberal) Evonomic Theory: the pursuit of profits will ensure resources are put to their most efficient use, best meeting the needs of society.
Capitalism in Practice: potato-chip-holster-boots.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/16/pringles-crocs-swicy-chips
#economics #capitalism #TeachEcon
#YouTube: Enforcement on Third Party Apps
source: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/269521462/enforcement-on-third-party-apps?hl=de
Weβre strengthening our enforcement on third-party apps that violate YouTubeβs Terms of Service, specifically ad-blocking apps.
#Economy #capitalism #advertisement #Google #adblocker #news #internet
#Business users of IT strongly condemn #market behaviour of #Broadcom and urge the European Commission to take appropriat action
In the context of the VMware takeover and the change in business #strategy, Broadcom's contempt and brutality towards its #customers are unprecedented in the recent history of the #digital #economy in #Europe.
Rescued a meme without alt-text.
Beyond including #UBI, the original version of what is now called monopoly had a cooperative or "Prosperity" mode.
The whole point of the game was to show how competing for profit destroys society!
The game was created to be a "practical demonstration of the present system of land grabbing with all its usual outcomes and consequences".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game
