but I'll get to use the kayak and spend far less labor and energy to do so!
So great - but the problem remains, how do I find the things I want to borrow?
Amazon and other retailers build large search systems because they want to sell you things. #libraries because they don't create profits, are unable to get #capital that demands a return. This is a problem that we see with #coops as well - it's better for everyone but capital, but they have the veto power under #capitalism.
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.
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....
Trump’s Fascism Is Only Capitalism Dressed To Look Like Democracy
President Trump’s fascist plan to consolidate power includes taking over independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission.
These agencies are responsible for enforcing antitrust law and consumer protection rules, respectively, and regulating the television and internet industries, respectively.
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.
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.
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.
"Experts say Canadians bracing for higher payments when they renew their mortgages in 2025 and beyond should start planning now in order to best manage the increase."
@simon_brooke the thing is, what Marx did predict was #capitalism being constantly caught in a crisis ridden circuit where the magnitude of value expands through the production of relative surplus value over absolute surplus value, because the latter is limited by the number of hours workers can work in a day, necessitating that production be oriented towards the former, which requires the investment in productivity-enhancing capital, which is necessarily at various points outstrips the productivity of living labor itself. So for Marx, capitalism is riddled by an imbalance between "variable capital" ie living labour, which is the source of value, and the need to produce fixed capital, which necessitates layoffs in order to sustain productivity when the rate of profit falls. Relative surplus value becomes relative surplus populations, the unemployed reserve army of labor, which can be bargained down amidst mass unemployment to accept depleted wages.
Sounds to me that #Marx's actual analysis — which few people understand, because few really read #Capital full-and-through — was actually pretty spot on, and while not perfect, definitely speaks to our times.
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....