Malaysian and Philippine #unions discuss #LivingWage and decoupling of #productivity and wages, "It is evident that the global economic system is a failure that only favours few owners of #capital"
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!
« Philosophe, économiste et journaliste, l'œuvre dense de Karl #Marx suscite des interrogations contemporaines. Comment appréhender ses écrits aujourd'hui, notamment le "#Capital" ? Quelle pertinence pour l'"idéologie" actuelle et quelle définition précise du #marxisme retenir ? »
Apart from the fact that #anarchists are mentally different and not fixated on #capital, the content of this article is exciting:
«How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity. Once, #drug dealers and #money launderers saw #cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.
JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, #Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly #private#digital#cash for the #Internet.»
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.
Looking out across Eagle Valley towards the (lightly dusted) Sierra Nevada. The Carson River is below, lined by cottonwood trees, and the edges of Carson City are visible on the ridge in the center and against the hillside to the right.
So capitalism is dead and we are in a new age of technofeudalism?
A situation where a privileged class controls the essential digital infrastructure and individuals and corporations from the period of capitalism are forced to pay rent or risk eviction. 🤔 :awesome_rotate: 🤔
If y'all can, please donate to Death Penalty Action. They are a non-profit that seeks to stop the death penalty and halt #executions. 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 #deathpenalty and anti #capital punishment. I love what Abraham J. Bonowitz is doing. No state sanctioned murder.
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
#TaxTheRich#Labor#Capital
Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) on "The dismal return of the avocado toast guy," Tim Gruner: "the open disdain for employees, and the determination to impose pain on the laboring class is borderline sociopathic."
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...
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."