#feudalism — Public Fediverse posts
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Perché i ricchi sono sempre più ricchi? | La lezione di Guido Alfani | Lucy sui mondi
https://youtube.com/watch?v=6rBOyZOTszQ&is=7rgDnolhDnWNVUO5
#Storia #history #storiadelleconomia #economichistory #feudalesimo #feudalism #capitalismo #capitalism #elonmusk #lezione #lesson
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Trump Fraud Tracker Inflates Accomplishments With Unverified and Previously Flagged Cases
The White House is heavily promoting a new “Fraud Ledger” claiming the Don Trump administration has uncovered nearly $250 billion in federal fraud committed by entities other than the Don Trump White House. A closer look at the numbers shows that total mixes together unproven suspicions, money sent to collections, future projected savings, and cases that actually began years before the current task force was created.
The distinction is crucial. More so, in the site's overlooking of the trillions of dollars fraudulently shifted, redistributed, reallocated from public savings & investment/retirement/health funds, to private and corporate subsidies, rebates, and guarantees of social nonparticipation. #taxEvasion
#circumspection #redistribution #fraud #governmentWaste #DOGE_II #framing #fingerpointing #plutocracy #redistribution #executiveParasites #feudalism
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Trump Fraud Tracker Inflates Accomplishments With Unverified and Previously Flagged Cases
The White House is heavily promoting a new “Fraud Ledger” claiming the Don Trump administration has uncovered nearly $250 billion in federal fraud committed by entities other than the Don Trump White House. A closer look at the numbers shows that total mixes together unproven suspicions, money sent to collections, future projected savings, and cases that actually began years before the current task force was created.
The distinction is crucial. More so, in the site's overlooking of the trillions of dollars fraudulently shifted, redistributed, reallocated from public savings & investment/retirement/health funds, to private and corporate subsidies, rebates, and guarantees of social nonparticipation. #taxEvasion
#circumspection #redistribution #fraud #governmentWaste #DOGE_II #framing #fingerpointing #plutocracy #redistribution #executiveParasites #feudalism
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Trump Fraud Tracker Inflates Accomplishments With Unverified and Previously Flagged Cases
The White House is heavily promoting a new “Fraud Ledger” claiming the Don Trump administration has uncovered nearly $250 billion in federal fraud committed by entities other than the Don Trump White House. A closer look at the numbers shows that total mixes together unproven suspicions, money sent to collections, future projected savings, and cases that actually began years before the current task force was created.
The distinction is crucial. More so, in the site's overlooking of the trillions of dollars fraudulently shifted, redistributed, reallocated from public savings & investment/retirement/health funds, to private and corporate subsidies, rebates, and guarantees of social nonparticipation. #taxEvasion
#circumspection #redistribution #fraud #governmentWaste #DOGE_II #framing #fingerpointing #plutocracy #redistribution #executiveParasites #feudalism
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Trump Fraud Tracker Inflates Accomplishments With Unverified and Previously Flagged Cases
The White House is heavily promoting a new “Fraud Ledger” claiming the Don Trump administration has uncovered nearly $250 billion in federal fraud committed by entities other than the Don Trump White House. A closer look at the numbers shows that total mixes together unproven suspicions, money sent to collections, future projected savings, and cases that actually began years before the current task force was created.
The distinction is crucial. More so, in the site's overlooking of the trillions of dollars fraudulently shifted, redistributed, reallocated from public savings & investment/retirement/health funds, to private and corporate subsidies, rebates, and guarantees of social nonparticipation. #taxEvasion
#circumspection #redistribution #fraud #governmentWaste #DOGE_II #framing #fingerpointing #plutocracy #redistribution #executiveParasites #feudalism
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Trump Fraud Tracker Inflates Accomplishments With Unverified and Previously Flagged Cases
The White House is heavily promoting a new “Fraud Ledger” claiming the Don Trump administration has uncovered nearly $250 billion in federal fraud committed by entities other than the Don Trump White House. A closer look at the numbers shows that total mixes together unproven suspicions, money sent to collections, future projected savings, and cases that actually began years before the current task force was created.
The distinction is crucial. More so, in the site's overlooking of the trillions of dollars fraudulently shifted, redistributed, reallocated from public savings & investment/retirement/health funds, to private and corporate subsidies, rebates, and guarantees of social nonparticipation. #taxEvasion
#circumspection #redistribution #fraud #governmentWaste #DOGE_II #framing #fingerpointing #plutocracy #redistribution #executiveParasites #feudalism
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“I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore”*…
Wat Tyler’s death (left to right: Sir William Walworth, Mayor of London (wielding sword); Wat Tyler; King Richard II; and Sir John Cavendish, esquire to the king, bearing decorated sword (source)Your correspondent is headed into a melange of meetings (and their attendant travel), so (Roughly) Daily will be on pause for a few days. Regular service should resume on or around June 19. I’ll leave you with a (timely?) tale from the past…
“Steve” publishes a wonderful weekly newsletter, Dates With History. In a recent post he shares the story of Wat Tyler and the Peasants’ Revolt…
If you walked into Smithfield in the City of London in the small hours of the morning, you’d find the great Victorian iron-and-glass halls of the old meat market, traders hard at work while dazed club-goers spill out of nearby Fabric nightclub, uncertain for a moment what century they’re in.
A few steps away stands St Bartholomew’s Hospital—Barts—the oldest hospital in London still on its original site, patching people up since 1123.
On one of the blocked window bays of the hospital’s north wall, a memorial marks where the Scottish hero William Wallace was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1305, alongside remembrances of the Protestant martyrs burned here under Queen Mary between 1555 and 1558.
A third plaque, on another blocked window bay, recalls an event 645 years ago next Monday—15 June 1381.
That day, a man rode into Smithfield at the head of a rebel army and tilted the course of English history. The fact that he was dead before the day was out is beside the point.
His name was Wat Tyler…
[Steve explains the origins and workings of the feudal system in England, the (extraordinary) impact of the Black Death, the Poll Tax, the subsequent rise of peasant resistance, the Revolt itself, Wat’s demise, and the immediate aftermath. He concludes…]
… Wat Tyler enters the historical record on 7 June 1381 and exits eight days later, 15 June 1381, when he was executed. That’s his lot.
The revolt failed.
But the idea it carried—that labour had value, that taxation required some semblance of fairness, that the common man had rights—survived.
The Peasants’ Revolt echoed what the barons had done at Runnymede in 1215—confront a king and extract written concessions from him. Tyler’s rebels knew their history. Had they succeeded, those sealed charters would have amounted to a Magna Carta for the poor.
Over the three centuries that followed, the power of English rulers to do as they pleased eroded steadily. By 1689, the Bill of Rights made explicit what three hundred years had been quietly establishing—that rulers governed within limits they did not set themselves.
Wat Tyler hadn’t written that principle. But he had fomented one of its earliest and most violent proofs of concept.
There wouldn’t be another poll tax in England for six hundred years—until Margaret Thatcher introduced one in 1990 and was promptly removed from office.
History, it turns out, has a long memory for bad ideas…
(Trying to) hold power to account: “It’s 1381 and the peasants are revolting.”
* “Howard Beale” (Peter Finch) in Paddy Chayefsky‘s and Sidney Lumet‘s Network
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As we ponder power, we might recall that it was on this date in 1939, at Hyde Park, that President Franklin D. Roosevelt hosted a luncheon for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of England. Despite his mother’s horror, FDR wanted to show the King and Queen an old-fashioned, American style picnic– featuring that most proletariat of dishes, the hot dog. In the U.S. to raise support U.S. for Britain’s cause in World War II, the royal couple at least appeared to enjoy the meal.
#culture #feudalism #FranklinDRoosevelt #history #hotDog #JohnOfGaunt #KingGeorgeVI #PeasantsRevolt #picnic #politics #pollTax #RichardII #WatTyler #WatTylersRebellion -
@tazgetroete #gntm #diversity #queer #models #exploitation #ausbeutung #feudalism mich erinnert GNTM immer an das feudalistische Gehabe der frühen Neuzeit und des Barock, wo zur „Erbauung“ einer gelangweilten, überpriviligierten und sozial/ökonomisch durch und durch übergriffigen Elite Menschen geradezu ausgestellt wurden…nur dass wir hier den Kontext haben, dass auch die „Massen“ einbezogen werden, damit der Strom von willigen Teilnehmenden nicht abreißt.
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#OMN Grounding (the roots as a story)
#techchurn is the endless cycle of adopting new platforms, tools, and technologies - not because they solve any real problems, but because novelty is mistaken for progress. It burns community trust, institutional memory, and activist energy, while leaving the underlying #nastyfew power structures untouched.https://hamishcampbell.com/?s=techchurn The #OMN uses #stupidindividualism to describe the culturally manufactured habit of prioritising personal gain and self-interest over collective […]https://hamishcampbell.com/omn-grounding-the-roots-as-a-story/
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I saw a meme post on Facebook suggesting that no one earns a billion dollars except by wage theft, that no one works a billion times harder than other hardworking people who make ordinary wages. That seems a fair claim. I wrote this next paragraph in response, kind of as a spur of the moment thought, but it's something I want to spend more time thinking about:
I used to think that one solution to this was the practice of asking CEOs to not make more than some fixed multiple of their lowest-paid employee. But now I see the goal is to not employ anyone either. A lot of the benefits for corporations are justified on the idea that they employ people, so helping them helps people. Now that this assumption is on a path to being increasingly violated, we need to reconsider our special treatment of corporations as well.
#ai #corporations #billionaires #NoBilliionaires #LateStageCapitalism #ShareholderCapitalism #RegulatoryCapture #society #ethics #unemployment #automation #law #CapitalGains #CapitalGainsTax #WealthTax #inequality #fascism #feudalism #oligarchy
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Excerpt from "Commons, #Libraries & #Degrowth" by Andrewism
"How has the potent alternative present in the commons been so wiped from our collective memory?
"It goes back to the feudal concept of land ownership, the age of European #colonialism, and of course, the rise of #IndustrialCapitalism. The king of England, for example, owned all the land in feudal England but bestowed titles for pledges of loyalty to powerful members of the nobility that allowed them to rule over large estates. These lords leased the land they were given to aristocrats, who also leased parts of their land as payment, for military aid, or for rent. This rigidly hierarchical system of obligation between landed lords and their tenants or vassals reinforced the monarchy’s ability to stake a claim on the land in their kingdom. However, at the bottom of this system were the peasants, who did all the actual work on the common land on the lord’s estate. Many were generationally serfs; legally prohibited from leaving the land they cultivated without their lord’s permission. Lords may have come and gone, but their bondage to the land was basically forever.
"After the #MagnaCarta, the #BlackDeath, the #Crusades, and all the other dramas that brought #feudalism into decline, the nobility initiated a process of #privatisation that laid the groundwork for early #capitalism through acquisitions, settlement, and enclosure of the commons. But even though revolutions and reforms came and went and most of us have gotten rid of our inbred kings and queens and their right to rule, the concept of sovereignty over private parcels of land and the feudal relationship of landlord and tenant has endured to this day, exported globally through #EuropeanColonialism.
"Despite this violent and antisocial theft of our access to even the means of subsistence, some commons have survived and thrived, though they operate within the constraints of the State and the #GlobalCapitalist status quo. Still, there is a lot we can learn from them when it comes to how to manage the commons.
"Why have they succeeded where others have failed in maintaining their commons? All efforts to organise collective action, including the commons, must address a common set of problems: how to supply new institutions, how to solve commitment issues, and how to maintain stability. It’s not easy. And yet some individuals have created institutions, committed themselves to following the rules they’ve come up with together, and assessed their own and others’ conformance to the rules in order to maintain the stability of their shared commons. Again, why have they succeeded where others have failed? External factors seem to play a significant role. Some have more autonomy than others to change their own institutions while others have change happen too rapidly for them to respond and adjust. Regardless, people try their best to solve the problems they face, despite their limitations. What factors help or hinder them in these efforts is a matter of careful study if we wish to succeed in organising and running our own commons.
"But first, we need to clarify some definitions.
"The commons are based on a common-pool resource or CPR, which is a natural or man-made resource system that benefits a group of people, but provides diminished benefits to everyone if each individual pursues their own self-interest. We must draw a further distinction between the resource system and the resource units produced by the system. Resource systems include #forests, #groundwater basins, irrigation canals, #lakes, #fisheries, #pastures, and even #infrastructure like windmills and the internet, while resource units consist of whatever users appropriate from those resource systems, such as cubic metres of lumber harvested and water withdrawn, tons of fish harvested and fodder grazed, kilowatts generated and network bandwidth used. It’s also important to maintain the #renewability of a resource system by ensuring that the average rate of withdrawal does not exceed the average rate of #replenishment.
"The term ‘appropriators’ refers to those who withdraw resource units from a resource system, like a fisher or farmer. Appropriators may use the resource units they withdraw, like residents powering their homes or farmers watering their crops, or they may transfer the resource units for others to use, such as a logger sending lumber to a hardware store for sale. Those who arrange for the provision of a CPR through financing or design are providers, while producers are those who actually construct, repair, and sustain the resource system itself. Providers, producers, and appropriators are often all the same people.
"Appropriators who share a CPR are deeply intertwined in a tapestry of interdependence. Acting selfishly and independently will usually obtain less benefit than they could have had they collectively organised in some way. The process of organising enables us to coordinate and change our shared situations to obtain higher shared benefits and reduce shared harm.
"Some of the commons institutions that endure today are as old as over a thousand years, while others are a few hundred at most. They exist alongside the personal property of the appropriators involved, such as their crops and livestock, but have remained at the core of these communities’ economies for generations. They have survived #droughts, #floods, #wars, #pestilences, and many major economic and political changes. From the alpine meadows of Torbel, Switzerland to the 3 million hectares of Japanese forest to the irrigation systems of Spain and the Philippines, these projects have evolved over time in response to experience and circumstance. None of them are perfect demonstrations of anarchy or anything, nor are they necessarily the most ‘optimal’ by some metrics. But they are successful in establishing a level of #autonomy and #resilience in the people involved in them, and they’ve managed to carefully maintain the ecology of the regions they inhabit.
"These institutions exist in different settings and have different histories, yet they simultaneously share fundamental similarities. Unpredictable and complex environments combined with engineering and farming skills combined with a predictable population over an extended period of time. These fairly egalitarian communities have developed extensive norms that define proper behaviour, involving honesty and reliability, allowing them to live without excessive conflict in a deeply interdependent environment. The perseverance of these institutions is due to the seven, and in some cases eight, key principles that Elinor Ostrom outlines in Governing the Commons..."
Read more:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrewism-commons-libraries-degrowth
#SolarPunkSunday #AnarchistLibrary #ClimateCrisis #Resiliency