Notices tagged with capitalism, page 4

Our society is more and more splitting up into two classes – Bourgeois and Proletarian – and the relationship between them isn't one of collaboration, but one of constant conflict. The discourse is over. Pick a side.

#communism #socialism #capitalism

Someone just “reply-guyed” in defense of #capitalism!

Why don't people check the accounts of the OP before they comment?

Laissez-faire economics is not the answer. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/02/the-capitalist-threat/376773/ #politics #capitalism #communism #libertarian

Food banks face surge in demand
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/food-banks-continue-to-face-a-surge-in-demand-1.7072793

* +17% vs last yr: Fredericton NB
* +60% vs last yr: food bank users, Mississauga ON
* wages don't keep up w. the cost of rent, food
* Food Banks Canada: 1.9+M visits to food bank in Canada ea. mo.
* 1/3 of those visits = children

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Banks_Canada
https://foodbankscanada.ca

#Canada #inflation #greedflation #shrinkflation #profiteering #capitalism #PriceFixing #AlgorithmicPricing #DemandPricing #poverty #FoodSecurity #CorporateGreed

Billions of liters of Canadian milk discarded in last 12 years
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/billions-of-litres-of-canadian-milk-were-discarded-in-the-last-12-years-research-1.7075470

COMMENT: yet here in Vancouver (B.C., Canada)
milk $4.78/2L
No-Name butter $5.88/lb
eggs $4.17/doz

Canadian Dairy Commission: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Dairy_Commission
* regulates, inflates dairy prices

Images source: NoFrills.ca 2024-Oct-16

#poverty #FoodSecurity #Loblaws #NoFrills #SDM #corporations #billionaires #capitalism #greedflation #shrinkflation #AlgorithmicPricing #inflation #lobbyists #CanadianDairyCommission

[Canada] Monthly food bank use soars to record 2M, driven by cost of groceries/housing
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/monthly-food-bank-use-soars-to-record-2-million-driven-by-cost-of-groceries-housing-1.7089001

* Food Banks Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Banks_Canada
* food bank use: 2M+ visits March 2024
* double monthly visits 5 y ago in March 2019
* 6% above 2023's record-breaking #

HungerCount 2024
https://fbcblobstorage.blob.core.windows.net/wordpress/2024/10/hungercount-2024-en.pdf

#Canada #inflation #greedflation #shrinkflation #corporations #CorporateGreed #profiteering #capitalism #PriceFixing #AlgorithmicPricing #DemandPricing #poverty #FoodSecurity

Greedflation: Corporate Profits Are the Driver of High Prices
https://msmagazine.com/2024/10/17/inflation-high-prices-corporate-profits

* corporations continue to rake in the profits at consumers’ expense

#inflation #greedflation #shrinkflation #profiteering #capitalism #PriceFixing #AlgorithmicPricing #CorporateGreed #poverty #FoodSecurity

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Vancouver food bank feeling demand as Food Banks Canada reports doubling of users
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-food-bank-feeling-demand-as-food-banks-canada-reports-doubling-of-users-1.7090172

* many food bank users employed
* unable to keep up w. cost of living
* 6 y ago Greater Vancouver Food Bank had 6,500 clients
* today 15,000 people
* range f. families to seniors on fixed income who can’t keep up w. inflation
* Hunger Count: 30% food banks running out of food

#Vancouver #inflation #corporations #profiteering #capitalism #PriceFixing #DemandPricing #poverty #FoodSecurity

Judith Deutsch, Science For Peace

Brilliant essay! Bear through opening paragraphs; 5-10' read

Killing Knowledge
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113283950252848660

* aggression/wars/nuclear proliferation
* narcissistic leaders
* misogyny; racism
* psychology: motives
* genocides; international justice
* 3rd world debt
* egregious wealth/tax havens
* confiscating assets

#peace #ScienceForPeace #JudithDeutsch #capitalism #corporations #LegalPersonhood #StructuralViolence #HigherEducation #IAEA #NPT #AssetForfeiture

What happens when vaccine skeptic leads health policy? Ask Florida
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5188676/trump-election-2024-vaccines-rfk

* Trump will let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "go wild on health"
* many pediatricians nervous due to RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine rhetoric
* vaccine skeptic, Joseph Ladapo, became surgeon general in FL
* vaccine hesitancy worsened

#Trump2 #Trumpism #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #Project2025
#RFKjr #JosephLadapo #ConspiracyTheorists #antivax #disinformation
#capitalism #billionaires #libertarianism #Christofascism

#Massachusetts recently changed its guaranteed shelter law to no longer guarantee shelter.
Now, individual communities are following up on that by criminalizing not having a place to live: https://whdh.com/news/brockton-city-council-approves-encampment-crackdown/
This starts out as a NIMBY problem, until more and more cities and towns do it, at which point homeless people literally have nowhere to go except a prison or a cemetery.
#housingIsAHumanRight #homelessness #capitalism #politics #USPol #MAPoli

Albert Einstein (1949): "Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society. This is true since the members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population. Moreover, under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights.

The situation prevailing in an economy based on the private ownership of capital is thus characterized by two main principles: first, means of production (capital) are privately owned and the owners dispose of them as they see fit; second, the labor contract is free. Of course, there is no such thing as a pure capitalist society in this sense. In particular, it should be noted that the workers, through long and bitter political struggles, have succeeded in securing a somewhat improved form of the “free labor contract” for certain categories of workers. But taken as a whole, the present day economy does not differ much from “pure” capitalism."

https://monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/why-socialism/

#Socialism #Capitalism #WageSlavery

“There is “no sign” of the transition away from burning fossil fuels that was pledged by the world’s nations a year ago, with 2024 on track to set another new record for global carbon emissions.” As long as it makes the super rich even richer the world will burn! #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism

[thread] Steve Witkoff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Witkoff

* American real estate investor, landlord
* founder, Witkoff Group
* Nov 2024 Trump tapped Witkoff to be Special Envoy to Middle East
* close friend of Trump

#SteveWitkoff #WitkoffGroup #SpecialEnvoy #MiddleEast
#USpol #Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation #Project2025
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism
#Christofascism #antiLGBT

Trump taps Musk & Ramaswamy to lead Dept. Government Efficiency
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33972/trump-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-doge-government-efficiency-deep-state

* new government agency focused on regulating federal spending
* DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency
* childish play on dog-themed cryptocurrency started as a joke wh. skyrocketed after Musk promoted it
* another deviation f. political tradition

#ElonMusk #VivekRamaswamy #DOGE #GOP #Trump2 #fascism
#billionaires #capitalism #libertarianism #WealthTax #plutocracy #meritocracy #oligarchy #transphobia

[thread] Pete Hegseth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Hegseth

* Fox News political commentator, author, U.S. Army National Guard officer
* Nov 2024 Trump intends to nominated as U.S. Secretary of Defense, Trump2 cabinet
* conservative Republican
* briefly worked at Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

#PeteHegseth #ManhattanInstitute #USpol #Trump2 #GOP
#fascism #authoritarianism #extremism #disinformation
#Project2025 #capitalism #libertarianism
#Christofascism #antiLGBT #misogyny

Trump taps former Texas congressman John Ratcliffe to lead CIA
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/12/donald-trump-texan-john-ratcliffe-CIA

* Trump taps Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to head DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency
* Trump: "provide advice & guidance f. outside of Gov." to "drive lg. scale structural reform, & create entrepreneurial approach to Gov. never seen before"

#ElonMusk #VivekRamaswamy #DOGE #GOP #Trump2 #fascism
#billionaires #capitalism #libertarianism #WealthTax #plutocracy #meritocracy #oligarchy #transphobia

[thread] Elon Musk, DOGE: Department of Government Efficiency 🤦♀️

[thread] Elon Musk
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110460614727284498

[thread] Billionaires: existential risk
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111002623984509563

[thread] Existential threat of billionaires
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/112810230899017402

[thread] Elon Musk, anti-Semitism
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111013789254186238

#Musk #GOP Trumpism #Trump2 #AmericaPAC #fascism
#disinformation #Twitter #XCorp #Tesla #SpaceX #capitalism #libertarianism
#billionaires #WealthTax #plutocracy #meritocracy #oligarchy #transphobia

[thread] Treasury Secretary candidates
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#TreasurySec #GOP #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#billionaires #capitalism #libertarianism

[thread] prison industrial complex

See also:
Poverty industrial complex
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111025108282701968

Prisons, conditions
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/110653873757382969

Private Equity at Heart of Cop City
Profiting f. prison-industrial complex
https://truthout.org/articles/private-equity-influence-is-at-the-heart-of-cop-city-report-reveals

* 2021 Atlanta leased land to Atlanta Police Foundation $10/yr
* since then approved $67M to supplement 1/3 contribution APF promised
* current project total $90M

#PrivateEquity #StopCopCity #Atlanta #capitalism #PrisonIndustrialComplex #corporations