"...a huge number of our leaders are essentially stealing money, but they can't withdraw the money directly, so they have to spend the organization's capital on expensive nonsense to purchase status then convert that status into a better salary somewhere else at a really, really bad exchange rate. It really is embezzling without the charm of efficiency."
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwash-an-executive-today/
[#]corporations #status #MoneyScam
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"But let's still stop for a moment. There has been an acknowledgement that neoliberalism has failed. It is the first step to replacing it."
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01/17/badenoch-apologises-for-neoliberalism-saying-it-has-failed/
[#]ukpolitics #neoliberalism
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''The economy is flatlining. Despite being given every incentive that they have demanded, the private sector is not delivering growth in this country. ... There is no technological innovation to encourage them to do so. There is no demand in the economy to make them think it is worthwhile investing. There is, then, no prospect of any economic change or growth coming from private sector activity. "
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01/13/reeves-choice/
[#]ukpolitics
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''Again the extreme right argue for a Hobbesian dystopia.
And yet again they fail to consider how they might fare in such a world.
They have amassed fabulous wealth under the auspices of a state that protects their property. When that state disappears their wealth will last as long as it takes for someone, probably their bodyguards, to kick their door in and steal it. "
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01/13/reform-wants-to-destroy-government-and-the-economy-as-we-know-it/#comment-1001895
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"A megalomaniac, far-right oligarch thinks he must save Western civilisation - which is characterised by democratic rule - from a democratically elected government."
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01/10/does-the-ft-think-theres-a-musk-insprired-conspiracy-against-labour/
[#]Musk #democracy #ukpolitics
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"This vicious circle of lower tax revenues, more cuts needs to be broken and the direction of argument reversed.
“We can only have the health/education/transport/housing we can afford” must become “we can only have a productive economy if we have healthy, well educated workers that can get to work and have somewhere decent to rest at the end of the day”.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01/08/borrowing-costs-are-high-because-thats-exactly-what-the-bank-of-england-wants/#comment-1000996
[#]inequality #UKpolitics #MMT #framing
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The illegal occupation by so-called settlers in the West Bank doesn’t exist alone – it is kept alive by big banks like BNP Paribas.
The French giant BNP Paribas is N°1 creditor of these horrific abuses and land thefts. Between loans, investments, and other financial support, BNP is pouring over 32 million USD in Israel’s illegal settlement industry.
Tell BNP: Stop bankrolling illegal Israeli settlements!
https://action.eko.org/a/bnp-illegal-settlements
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“The thing that Wes Streeting thinks is new… is they are going to sell access to the written notes, the GP notes ... any money that the NHS makes out of this will be paid by companies who want to sell products and services back to the NHS, so they’ll just charge the costs back to the NHS with interest and overheads.
It’s just moving money between NHS budgets, having a chunk skimmed off each time, and calling it economic growth.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-plans-to-sell-gp-data-to-private-sector-make-no-sense
[#]NHS #UKpolitics #labour #WesStreeting
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"...all the pundits who once sold Starmer as very good, if not the actual dog’s bollocks, are now saying he is simply bollocks?"
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what-surprise-%E2%80%93-starmer%E2%80%99s-dud
[#]Labour #Starmer #ukPolitics
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"Labour might have had a “strategy to win the general election” but “not to govern.” Or it might be worse: ...“they did have a plan, it was incoherent and undermined by factionalism.” This is slightly generous ... as his Labour Party really came into power on a “loveless landslide,” with fewer votes than Jeremy Corbyn, because the right was split between Reform and Tory. But it is an admission from a Starmer-friendly pundit that the PM is in trouble."
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what-surprise-%E2%80%93-starmer%E2%80%99s-dud
[#]labour #ukPolitics
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"Push Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other governments to tighten the rules around political donations and save our democracies.
Reports say that the UK government right now is considering changing the rules. But Starmer won’t act unless he’s got huge public backing for this move, because he knows that there will likely be a massive backlash from the far right in the UK and the US."
[#]UKpolitics #Musk #petition
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"Plan. Silicon Valley doesn’t think in four-year election cycles. Elon Musk isn’t worrying about the midterms. He’s thinking about flying a SpaceX rocket to Mars and raping and pillaging its rare earth minerals before anyone else can get there. We need a 30-year road map out of this."
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"Listen to women of colour. Everything bad that happened on the internet happened to them first. The history of technology is that it is only when it affects white men that it’s considered a problem. Look at how technology is already being used to profile and target immigrants. Know that you’re next."
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"Think of your personal data as nude selfies. A veteran technology journalist told me this in 2017 and it’s never left me. My experience of “discovery” – handing over 40,000 emails, messages, documents to the legal team of the Brexit donor I’d investigated – left me paralysed and terrified. Think what a hostile legal team would make of your message history. This can and will happen."
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"Watch The Lives of Others, the beautifully told film about surveillance in 80s east Berlin. Act as if you are now living in East Germany and Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp is the Stasi. It is."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump
[#]surveillancecapitalism #USA2025
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the tides “seem to be growing every day”.
“I heard them say it’s global warming. I left school and ran away to go fishing, so now I don’t know what’s global warming, but the rains don’t come when it’s supposed to, the winds have changed,” James says.
“Maybe we offended the sea gods, I don’t know, but now I have to move my family inland,” he says.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/31/moving-to-the-mountaintops-rising-seas-displace-tens-of-thousands-in-papua-new-guinea
[#]globalwarming #migration
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"The forces I criticize see no beauty in human beings. They do not see us as remarkable things that generate ideas both stupid and incredible, they do not see talent or creativity as something that is innately human, but a commodity to be condensed and monetized and replicated so that they ultimately own whatever value we have, which is the kind of thing you’d only ...want if you were fully removed from the human" race.ttps://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
[#]RotEconomy
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Irritating software 'improvements' you didn't want? "tech platforms see it as a means to further extract and exploit, to push users into doing things that either keep them on the app longer or take more-profitable actions.
We as a society need to reckon with how this twists us up, makes us more paranoid, more judgmental, more aggressive, more reactionary, because when everything is subtly annoying, we all simmer and suffer in manifold ways"
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
[#]tech #ui
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Wishing you joyful and hopeful contemplation of The reason for the season ...
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12/25/happy-christmas-to-economic-radicals/
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Zorionak!
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