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: 🤔
🐟 🐟 Le #capital raconté par… ma boîte de thon en conserve.
« On était battus qd la pêche n’était pas bonne, même quand on était malades » raconte Kyaw Moe Thu, originaire du Myanmar, vendu à une entreprise de pêche, prisonnier surveillé par des personnes armées.
Certains de ces bagnes flottants appartiennent à Thaï Union, qui fournit en thon les principaux distributeurs européens, dont la marque Petit Navire.
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"
#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."
Ghana’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty for all crimes except high treason, formalizing what has been a de facto moratorium on executions for the past three decades....
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!
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.
« 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 ? »
It's inceribly freeing to realize that after decades of poverty and now working in a middle class income lvl job the income has no real power over me.
If the conditions worsen, I'll just withdraw my labor. Doing this gives me zero anxiety. I know perfectly well that I'll be fine regardless.
In many ways poverty makes you ungovernable. And also reveals our real power as workers. And I suppose that is why the ladder to decent income has to be kept as steep as possible, so not too many find this out.
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.
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.
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.
Ghana votes to abolish the death penalty 30 years after last execution (www.thespec.com)
Ghana’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty for all crimes except high treason, formalizing what has been a de facto moratorium on executions for the past three decades....