HeavenlyPossum, to random

This is from someone who thinks capitalism is great:

“Resources aren't capital. The capitalist often does not even need them, in order to turn profit. He can simply invest his capital to buy means of production and labor, and sell the results at profit.”

I couldn’t ask for a more succinct summary of capital as a token that some people have, and others don’t, which the owners can swap for owning someone else’s labor and the value of the product of that labor.

Capital doesn’t represent resources! It’s not connected to anything useful! You can’t use it to make more stuff, only to control someone else! It’s just a token! It’s quantified, commodified power!

Straight from the horse’s mouth.

#capital #capitalism

premartinpatrick, to random French
@premartinpatrick@mastouille.fr avatar

J'suis passé au stock il y a quelques jours et suis retombé sur cette boite de l'Anti Monopoly. Clairement le jeu à avoir dans toutes les familles modernes pour se préparer à lutter pour les droits du peuple.

https://www.leshopdeludo.fr/jeux-jouets/15669-anti-monopoly.html

beatnikprof, to random
@beatnikprof@mas.to avatar

This image started me thinking: Charles Dickens had the right of it in Little Dorrit. The only difference is in the 19th-century novel the debtors’ prison is at night and in 21st-century reality it’s during the day.
#capitalism #capital

remixtures, to Portugal Portuguese
@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org avatar

É isto um Partido Socialista ou um Partido ANTI-SOCIALISTA e NEOLIBERAL? E depois ainda temos que aturar a conversa burguesóide da Iniciativa Liberal? E os autores do artigo até tentam disfarçar repetindo várias vezes que Portugal não foge à regra da OCDE. Terceiro lugar da lista e não foge à regra? Não fugir à regra era estar três lugares a menos ou a mais do que o meio da tabela. Agora como é que terceiro lugar da lista pode ser considerado como "não fugir à regra"? Jornalismo subserviente aos poderes instalados é o que é...

#Portugal #Neoliberalismo #Impostos #IRC #IRS #Desigualdade #Trabalho #Capital: "Portugal tem a terceira maior diferença da OCDE entre os impostos aplicados aos indivíduos que têm rendimentos de capitais e aqueles que recebem salários. Fiscalistas "culpam" altas taxas de IRS.

Quem tem rendimentos de capital beneficia, regra geral, de um enquadramento fiscal mais favorável do que quem recebe salários. Portugal não foge a essa tendência e é mesmo o terceiro país da OCDE onde a diferença de tratamento entre esses tipos de rendimentos é maior, isto é, onde o capital é mais favorecido em detrimento do trabalho. As altas taxas de IRS explicam esse cenário, dizem os fiscalistas ouvidos pelo ECO, que avisam que essa dinâmica pode estar a travar a melhoria dos salários.

“Os Governos aplicam quase sempre enquadramentos fiscais mais favoráveis aos indivíduos que têm rendimentos de capital do que aos que têm rendimentos de trabalho”, identifica a Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Económico (OCDE), numa nota recente dedicada a essa diferença e que olha em particular para os contribuintes com rendimentos mais elevados."

https://eco.sapo.pt/2023/09/06/portugal-e-dos-que-mais-favorece-capital-e-prejudica-salarios-com-impostos/

kubikpixel, to money
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

Apart from the fact that are mentally different and not fixated on , the content of this article is exciting:

«How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity. Once, dealers and launderers saw as perfectly untraceable.
JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly for the

🤑 https://arstechnica.com/features/2024/01/how-a-27-year-old-busted-the-myth-of-bitcoins-anonymity/

J12t, to workersrights
@J12t@social.coop avatar

A Union. We should create a Union. Like a labor union. But of Fediverse users.

A Fedi Union.

Just like a #labor union aggregates the diffuse power of many #workers into something formidable that can stand up to the concentrated power of large #capital, a #fediverse #union could stand up to the concentrated power of, say, large tech companies entering the fediverse, if needed.

Tell me why this is a bad idea.

sugarfuel, to berlin German
@sugarfuel@mastodon.social avatar
spaceflight, to random

In the purely small-launch arena, #Vector and #VirginOrbit have both entered bankruptcy 📉, and #Astra has abandoned its first attempt to build a small #rocket 🚀 due to more failed launches than successful ones.
"We went through a period where tremendous amounts of #capital 💰 were raised for all kinds of concepts and ideas. At some point you actually have to #do what you #said you were going to do and #execute." https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/rocket-lab-hitting-its-stride-with-high-cadence-new-venture-for-electron

commu, to saopaulo Portuguese

Ok, não é bem sobre #mobilidade, mas como envolve um aspecto pitoresco da #RMSP, vamos comentar, porque pode estimular #turismo em municípios que, normalmente, não são lembrados por moradores de #SãoPaulo #capital (quando não são estigmatizados de forma preconceituosa). Com a chegada do #inverno, uma série de festivais são realizados. #MogidasCruzes, #SantoAndré (#Paranapiacaba) e #Guararema já anunciaram datas e/ou atrações. Nos três casos, a #CPTM pode ajudar nos deslocamentos.

dianor, to money

Just bought my son & his gf tickets to go see The Shining. There's a classic horror film night at our local theater.

Just because I could now that I am working with decent pay.

Feels nice. What a privilege. Really could not have just done such things even 6 months ago.

Anybody who says money doesn't matter is totally not aware of what ones material conditions are like when there is none.

#capital #consumer #money #privilege #MaterialGirl

br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Vermont's flood-wracked capital city ponders a rebuild with one eye on climate change

#capital

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/vermont-ap-montpelier-experts-republican-b2388084.html

br00t4c, to conservative
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar
Mediapart, to random French

Billet de blog 💬 Le FPL annonce sa première prise de participation dans le journal «Le Crestois»

Placé en redressement judiciaire, cet hebdomadaire d’informations locales dans le nord de la Drôme a été repris par plusieurs salariés et journalistes constitués en société coopérative. Pour soutenir cette relance et aider à un indispensable visage numérique, le FPL a pris une participation minoritaire au #capital de la nouvelle société.

✏️ FPL | En accès libre › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/fpl/blog/200623/le-fpl-annonce-sa-premiere-prise-de-participation-dans-le-journal-le-crestois

br00t4c, to Ukraine
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Leading German media outlets call for unlimited arms deliveries to Ukraine and "tank battles" in Europe

#CAPITAL #UKRAINE

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/07/10/bkiu-j10.html

grantburger, to photography
@grantburger@pixelfed.social avatar

Washington monument 2014 #photography #capital #washington #sunset

veganpizza69, to random
@veganpizza69@veganism.social avatar

"From Cattle To #capital How Agriculture Bred Ancient #Inequality"

I like to get political.

1/many🧵

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/15/564376795/from-cattle-to-capital-how-agriculture-bred-ancient-inequality

Related: Greater post-Neolithic wealth disparities in Eurasia than in North America and Mesoamerica

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24646

br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Kids accidentally collected 72 clams thinking they were seashells. Then came the $88k fine

#capital

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/clams-shells-california-pismo-fine-b2550685.html

br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar
housepanther, to random

If y'all can, please donate to Death Penalty Action. They are a non-profit that seeks to stop the death penalty and halt . Their donations are down and they need funds to help stop death row inmates from getting executed, many of which could be factually innocent. I'm anti and anti punishment. I love what Abraham J. Bonowitz is doing. No state sanctioned murder.

https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/wehEm_vu1NBVXOKYSqOxTOi34aJoCJC1EivM7Ih953x169cPEOWIffLYD2N8DPft0fTTbSopjj4FBoxqVLJWssQsV_ldpu9HKCVeb-XuoWIhurJNFIhP4zhFbZrKv93p8uXIXZjSviZhJ9wDQgpruy54PT3kBKnVN_bN6uBKMSjXo9qfHl47WLXxgTAkcafrwZDMgaRjFP2YLjZ85UozJUY42Jq5kn52Qmc5sn5aFVXLGLFug31X_hSiKb0Al32I_lBiKkgeleu6ozfZgYCuCz449MslIH0VyJBqs_WOAXylpjxSeOOs9DnswDWwdgc_/40n/gK-gCcbMTJWP9leUduRotg/h2/ZBU9HFoPd8SBOqeYG1eJn7O3-lRHiQudRMbnx0sx2rU

br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar
br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar
br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Freeland plans to trigger a vote on capital gains tax changes next week

#capital #liberal

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/capital-gains-tax-freeland-1.7228795?cmp=rss

br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Vikings Advised to Trade 'Marginally Competent' Starter, Add Draft Capital

#capital #trade

https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/minnesota-vikings/akayleb-evans-trade-rumors-byron-murphy/

parleur, to random French
@parleur@mastodon.parleur.net avatar

Vous savez comment #ElonMusk est devenu si riche ?

Il a trouvé un sou.

Avec ce sou, il a acheté une pomme.
Cette pomme, il l'a bien nettoyée, et il l'a revendue pour deux sous.

Avec cet argent, il a acheté deux pommes.
Ces pommes, il les a bien nettoyées, et il les a revendues.

Ensuite, il a hérité.

#héritage #capitalisme #capital

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