#Barrons, a right- #capitalist news organ concentrating on the stock market said: "The Stock Market Pain Is Just Getting Started. ‘This is How You Sabotage the World’s Economic Engine." https://www.barrons.com/articles/stock-market-trump-tariff-economy-cc11dfab

#wealth #class #inequality #politics #capitalism
Caveat 'residing' . For #HNWI that can be anywhere, anytime. Also note source is steeped in the #capitalist ethic.
https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114264767040070497

Acqua potabile alle stelle: dove si paga di più e dove meno.  La tua città è tra queste?

L'indagine di Altroconsumo https://capitalist.it/w2fg

Spitting and cussing. Can't share my latest #publication #pembrokepapers because it's a *.pdf on my not iconic, wate of space #iMac #apple #MacIsTosh . The more time I spend on it the more convinced it's a huge con. The #capitalist theory of inbuilt #obsolescence & pandering to some #yankee idea of #style . It has about as much style as a #playboy #centrefold. And #starmer 's bed hopping with them. Give me strength. Next issue to be set and printed by hand thanks to Mr Caxton. Grr...End rant.

#US Professor of #GenderStudies #JudithButler giving spot-on #analysis of the roots of #GlobalCrisis in relation to #gender, #FreeSpeach and #capitalist extremism.

#press #news #BreakingNews
https://youtu.be/V07orx7U1I8?si=JLN0nagnSfB4a4_h

How to Turn an “#EconomicBlackout” Into an All-Out War on #CorporatePower

Friday’s economic boycott is a one-day attack on corporate interests. The #degrowth movement calls for a broader societal shift.

Jonah Valdez, February 28 2025

Excerpt: "Rooted in the work of American and European political theorists of the 1970s, the 'degrowth' movement criticizes a #capitalist system that seeks unending growth and profit, which has led to #ecological and #environmental ruin such as the impacts of #ClimateChange.

"Instead, it advocates for a system that prioritizes the needs of the #planet and its people, such as #housing, #education, and #healthcare. According to Jason Hickel, a leading advocate of degrowth and author of 'Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World,' the movement calls for reducing consumption and production of things that harm the planet such #FossilFuels, #SUVs, #PrivateJets, #mansions, #FastFashion, #IndustrialBeef, #CruiseShips, and the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex.

"While the term may be unfamiliar to many Americans, its core ideas have cropped up in the Green New Deal’s goals of a post-fossil fuel economy; the pandemic-era phenomenon of white-collar workers voluntarily quitting their jobs and working less; and the recent social media trend of '#NoBuy,' which encouraged people to purchase less and #repurpose more.

"'People are getting a sense that they’re ripped off, that they’re being taken advantage of and exploited as consumers,' said Aaron Vansintjan, co-author of 'The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism.' 'It is promising that people are responding to the current moment by showing their distrust of these corporations.'

"The boycott has drawn wide–ranging media coverage, along with the attention of some celebrities. It also caught the attention of #LindaSarsour, a progressive activist best known for organizing the 2017 #WomensMarch after #Trump’s first election.

"'It is an easy risk-free way to invite masses of people to act in reaction to the outrageousness of this Administration,' Sarsour told The Intercept in an email."

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/28/no-buy-nothing-corporation-boycott-capitalism-degrowth/
#CorporateColonialism #Corporatocracy #RepairCafes #LibraryOfThings #ReuseRepairRecycle #CircularEconomy #CapitalismKills #EnvironmentalDamage #USPol #WorldPol #CapitalismMustDie #PlannedObsolescence #ProtectMotherEarth

#TaxTheRich, it’s a decent start

Posted by Bluebird | Mar 12, 2025

"As incredible as it may seem, just a handful of #billionaire #Mainers could fund the state for years out of their own pockets and still live out their lives as multimillionaires. So when socialists say tax the rich, we mean more than raising what billionaires pay by 1% or 2%, we mean raising their taxes by 25% or 50% or more to start with. We mean we should take back the wealth they have collected by exploiting all the people who have worked for them, all the land they have stolen, and all the resources they have grabbed all around the world. In the meantime, socialists often support smaller measures whenever we feel like they are a way to raise funds to help our class, raise consciousness, and build organization.

However, increasing taxes on the wealthy isn’t a permanent solution to the persisting problems of #capitalist society. It’s a good start, but it’s not enough.

[...]

"By all means tax [the wealthy] at a rate of 95%, 99%, 100%, 200%! Take back everything they have stolen from us. Truly solving the causes of social inequality cannot happen until the property of the capitalist class has been expropriated, but for the reasons explained above, simply taxing them at any rate will prove ineffective given enough time.

"Moreover, tax increases tend to antagonize capitalists. Sooner or later, as we are seeing very clearly now in Washington, they will transform their economic might into raw political power to claw back even the small social costs that generations of #SocialMovements and trade unions have imposed on them. During such times, as grim as our prospects may seem, it becomes clearer than ever that so long as the capitalists have all the power, even the most progressive public policy can only be temporary.

"How much longer will capitalist industry be allowed to #pollute the planet? How many more times does the economy have to crash? How many more wars will we be forced to fight on the behalf of these #RobberBarons? How many more lives will be ruined by #debts, mass #layoffs, denied insurance claims, and more? Why should we tolerate a system that exploits those whose labor keeps society functioning?"

Read more:
https://pineandroses.org/opinion/www-pineandroses-org/
#MaineDSA #Socialism #CapitalismMustDie

#greenland #minerals #Gaia Commentators are seriously deluded if they think native Greenlanders will monetise their natural resources for the benefit of #USA #capitalist #hegemony. Get to fek you money gubbing bar stewards. (from back in the day "yankee go home")

#meta #zuckerberg Tax the rse of him. A thief, grifter and crypto-fascist. Vile, nasty, the very worst of exploitative #capitalist #oligarchs
https://www.reuters.com/technology/italy-hands-vat-bill-meta-x-linkedin-landmark-tax-case-2025-03-26/

"the legal #system is more likely to send a poor #person to prison for stealing food than it is to send a #banker to prison for stealing millions of pounds. they legal system in any #capitalist country isn't on your side"

https://www.tumblr.com/nando161mando/779150535878115328

#SuperRichBULLIES Abusing The Legal System

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag9oez1GBNk&pp=ygUWZW5xdWlyeSwganVzdGluLCBibGFrZQ%3D%3D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MsosNTGgTk

If you are a #filmmaker and an #actor is cast as one of the characters, that's you're #film.

You read the #book, worked on this project for 5 years, gave yourself ...essentially... a pay cut, etc all for a passion project.

Then the actor, along with their partner (who has many connections, a lot of pull in the #filmindustry & a shit-tonne of money) STEAL the project from you, and in disgusting ways, cause you emotional harm & stress.

But wait, there's more. This couple has a history of inappropriateness and bullying on set, treating the crew like shit, stealing projects from creators, but the #capitalist film big-wigs say "Yeah, so what? These people make a tonne of money for us'.

I don't think if you're the semi-indy filmmaker, you would be having a good time!

What's striking about #capitalist civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social #progress, no commitment to improving #human #welfare or #ecology. All we get is the #chaos of #profit-oriented #production & #accumulation as the world burns around us.

Factual commentary analysis of #Labour's 'governing' by Tabitha Troughton in #FreedomNews.

#Gifsartidote: #Starmer & Co behave like any other neo-liberal #capitalist gov bc they are in collaboration with big business to protect the system. They all are consumed by greed and narcissism, the end result of white-supremacy colonialism. Nobody has sufficiently addressed the collective trauma centuries of this trajectory has caused, hence why we are here
#press #news #opinion
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/03/24/welfare-cuts-labours-political-suicide/

Factual commentary analysis of #Labour's 'governing' by Tabitha Troughton in #FreedomNews.

#Gifsartidote: #Starmer & Co behave like any other neo-liberal #capitalist gov bc they are in collaboration with big business to protect the system. They all are consumed by greed and narcissism, the end result of white-supremacy colonialism. Nobody has sufficiently addressed the collective trauma centuries of this trajectory has caused, hence why we are here
#press #news #opinion
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/03/24/welfare-cuts-labours-political-suicide/