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Wed Feb 11 and Thurs Feb 12, 2026
St. Lawrence Market Tent, the Esplanade and Market Street."The #SLNA #WasteReduction Group is holding its 15th REmarket, a two day event for #donations, #recycling services, & limited household #HazardousWaste drop offs.
A totally free market (#FreeMarket) will also be held on February 11 only. Guests can donate and/or take items for free (not for commercial resale). Bring your own bag.
On February 12, #RepairCaféToronto will be fixing clothing, jewellery, computers, home electronics, small appliances, housewares, and toys, while #CultureLInk #BikeHub will be doing small bike repairs and safety check.
NEW THIS TIME- they are collecting metal keys, and wooden chopsticks."
Source:
https://www.woodsworthcoop.ca/index.php/remarket-wed-feb-11-and-thurs-feb-12-2026/Full event details and guidelines can be found at
https://www.slna.ca/remarket-guidelines.html#SolarPunkSunday #TorontoCanada #ReduceReuseRepair #RepairCafe #Swap #CircularEconomy #ZeroWaste #Recycling #Reuse #BuildingCommunity #HouseholdHazardousWaste #WasteDisposal
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A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt
Competition, of course, like all other good things, can be carried to excess. Competition should not extend to fields where it has demonstrably bad social and economic consequences. The exploitation of child labor, the chiseling of workers’ wages, the stretching of workers’ hours, are not necessary, fair or proper methods of competition.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Message (1938-04-29) to Congress, On Curbing MonopoliesSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #business #capitalism #cheaplabor #childlabor #competition #economicinjustice #freemarket #laborrights #socialills #laborlaws
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@atyh
That's apparently why antitrust/#monopoly caveats were (quickly?) added to the definition on #capitalism.Western capitalism has failed really to do anything on #antitrust, the first time it did was with M$haft but we now know that was simply to introduce a second #astroturf to provide a veneer of #competition.
Amzn, Ggle and Cflare are especially heinous beneficiaries of the #moneyPrinter, and/or ever lower #interestRates.
Definately not a "#freeMarket".
See also #cantillonEffect.
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Capitalism
Ideologically capitalism may be an economic system which manages the process of production and distribution of the goods and services, but in reality man is been taken by all the products being created and has fallen victim of its own greed.
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To remember:
- Capitalism = institutionalized system > started in Europe 16th century to the 19th century
- group of individuals and groups can act as a specific entity that can have a trade or private property
- free market where prices are determined by supply and demand, for the sake of making a profit > status protected by the state through ownership rights and obedience to laws of the state or to those who are bound by a contract
- source of wealth > money or material that we need to make a profit
- mode of production > capital and its various forms = major tool in the production
- economical activity which intended to the markets and endorsed in order to generate the earnings from the commuting market.
- economic system which manages the process of production and distribution of the goods and services.
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To take note:
Capitalism brought perhaps bigger portions of the means of production and material owned by the individual, who takes more than he really needs. This results in voracity and a figurative and literal bulimia.
Normally goods and services should be traded competitively in the free market but we notice that certain groups gain such power that they push out all competitors and get monopolies (often under the form of sub-companies, so that people do not notice it).
The owners of small capital (smallholders) are just not able to compete against the owners of capital and big concerns or multinationals.
The writer says the advantage of capitalism is “Improved quality of goods”, but we clearly can see, and in Europe it is proven that many companies lowered the quality of their products or the life-age, so that they can sell more. Quality has been left aside to gain quantity.
The writer of the article also finds it an advantage that “products are more varied”, but today we have less variety of choice than 40 years ago. The companies press and present that what they want to sell and the consumer just has to follow. Today it is impossible to find in the shops the same maps as you used for your filing cabinet 2 or more years ago.
Today we can see enough proof how capitalism fooled the people and how much it brought failure to the creation. Animals and plants have become the greatest victims of human greed and search for a capitalist world, where they can not share any more.
Unless we “embrace radical change ourselves” very soon we shall drown ourselves, taking many with us.
Perhaps more people would consider the words spoken by the new Pope Francis:
“If we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us!”
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Related articles
- All it needs is love – The Economist
- Morning Macro Call With Keith McCullough: We’re Running Out Of Central Plans, Global Slowdown Looming
- Paul B. Farrell: Capitalists are destroying capitalism along with the planet
- Pope tells EU: “We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery”
- Pope Francis criticises European Union over treatment of migrants
- Pope Francis urges European Parliament to improve conditions for migrant workers
- Pope: EU risks loss of trust
- Why both Keyensian and Free market economic schools are wrong…
- Developed economies are not suffering from the consequences of a financial crash, but from a structural crisis of neoliberal capitalism
- Sustainable development economics
99% of population have only 1% of country’s property,while 1% of population get 99% of country’s property.
In my opinion, Capitalism is an institutionalized system that started in Europe in the 16th century to the 19th century, the time when the development of commercial banking in Europe. In Capitalism, a group of individuals and groups can act as a specific entity that can have a trade or private property, especially capital goods such as land and human labor, in a free market where prices are determined by supply and demand, for the sake of making a profit in which its status is protected by the state through the ownership rights and obedience to the laws of the state or to those who are bound by a contract that has been arranged in a clear way, either explicit or implicit obligations and are not solely depend on the obligations and protections…
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#16Century #Bulimia #Capitalism #FreeMarket #Greed #MakingProfit #Materialism #Monoploy #Monopolies #Multinationals #Qquantity #Quality #QualityOfGoods #Smallholders
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Capitalism
Ideologically capitalism may be an economic system which manages the process of production and distribution of the goods and services, but in reality man is been taken by all the products being created and has fallen victim of its own greed.
+
To remember:
- Capitalism = institutionalized system > started in Europe 16th century to the 19th century
- group of individuals and groups can act as a specific entity that can have a trade or private property
- free market where prices are determined by supply and demand, for the sake of making a profit > status protected by the state through ownership rights and obedience to laws of the state or to those who are bound by a contract
- source of wealth > money or material that we need to make a profit
- mode of production > capital and its various forms = major tool in the production
- economical activity which intended to the markets and endorsed in order to generate the earnings from the commuting market.
- economic system which manages the process of production and distribution of the goods and services.
+
To take note:
Capitalism brought perhaps bigger portions of the means of production and material owned by the individual, who takes more than he really needs. This results in voracity and a figurative and literal bulimia.
Normally goods and services should be traded competitively in the free market but we notice that certain groups gain such power that they push out all competitors and get monopolies (often under the form of sub-companies, so that people do not notice it).
The owners of small capital (smallholders) are just not able to compete against the owners of capital and big concerns or multinationals.
The writer says the advantage of capitalism is “Improved quality of goods”, but we clearly can see, and in Europe it is proven that many companies lowered the quality of their products or the life-age, so that they can sell more. Quality has been left aside to gain quantity.
The writer of the article also finds it an advantage that “products are more varied”, but today we have less variety of choice than 40 years ago. The companies press and present that what they want to sell and the consumer just has to follow. Today it is impossible to find in the shops the same maps as you used for your filing cabinet 2 or more years ago.
Today we can see enough proof how capitalism fooled the people and how much it brought failure to the creation. Animals and plants have become the greatest victims of human greed and search for a capitalist world, where they can not share any more.
Unless we “embrace radical change ourselves” very soon we shall drown ourselves, taking many with us.
Perhaps more people would consider the words spoken by the new Pope Francis:
“If we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us!”
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Related articles
- All it needs is love – The Economist
- Morning Macro Call With Keith McCullough: We’re Running Out Of Central Plans, Global Slowdown Looming
- Paul B. Farrell: Capitalists are destroying capitalism along with the planet
- Pope tells EU: “We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery”
- Pope Francis criticises European Union over treatment of migrants
- Pope Francis urges European Parliament to improve conditions for migrant workers
- Pope: EU risks loss of trust
- Why both Keyensian and Free market economic schools are wrong…
- Developed economies are not suffering from the consequences of a financial crash, but from a structural crisis of neoliberal capitalism
- Sustainable development economics
99% of population have only 1% of country’s property,while 1% of population get 99% of country’s property.
In my opinion, Capitalism is an institutionalized system that started in Europe in the 16th century to the 19th century, the time when the development of commercial banking in Europe. In Capitalism, a group of individuals and groups can act as a specific entity that can have a trade or private property, especially capital goods such as land and human labor, in a free market where prices are determined by supply and demand, for the sake of making a profit in which its status is protected by the state through the ownership rights and obedience to the laws of the state or to those who are bound by a contract that has been arranged in a clear way, either explicit or implicit obligations and are not solely depend on the obligations and protections…
View original post 333 more words
Rate this:
#16Century #Bulimia #Capitalism #FreeMarket #Greed #MakingProfit #Materialism #Monoploy #Monopolies #Multinationals #Qquantity #Quality #QualityOfGoods #Smallholders
-
Capitalism
Ideologically capitalism may be an economic system which manages the process of production and distribution of the goods and services, but in reality man is been taken by all the products being created and has fallen victim of its own greed.
+
To remember:
- Capitalism = institutionalized system > started in Europe 16th century to the 19th century
- group of individuals and groups can act as a specific entity that can have a trade or private property
- free market where prices are determined by supply and demand, for the sake of making a profit > status protected by the state through ownership rights and obedience to laws of the state or to those who are bound by a contract
- source of wealth > money or material that we need to make a profit
- mode of production > capital and its various forms = major tool in the production
- economical activity which intended to the markets and endorsed in order to generate the earnings from the commuting market.
- economic system which manages the process of production and distribution of the goods and services.
+
To take note:
Capitalism brought perhaps bigger portions of the means of production and material owned by the individual, who takes more than he really needs. This results in voracity and a figurative and literal bulimia.
Normally goods and services should be traded competitively in the free market but we notice that certain groups gain such power that they push out all competitors and get monopolies (often under the form of sub-companies, so that people do not notice it).
The owners of small capital (smallholders) are just not able to compete against the owners of capital and big concerns or multinationals.
The writer says the advantage of capitalism is “Improved quality of goods”, but we clearly can see, and in Europe it is proven that many companies lowered the quality of their products or the life-age, so that they can sell more. Quality has been left aside to gain quantity.
The writer of the article also finds it an advantage that “products are more varied”, but today we have less variety of choice than 40 years ago. The companies press and present that what they want to sell and the consumer just has to follow. Today it is impossible to find in the shops the same maps as you used for your filing cabinet 2 or more years ago.
Today we can see enough proof how capitalism fooled the people and how much it brought failure to the creation. Animals and plants have become the greatest victims of human greed and search for a capitalist world, where they can not share any more.
Unless we “embrace radical change ourselves” very soon we shall drown ourselves, taking many with us.
Perhaps more people would consider the words spoken by the new Pope Francis:
“If we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us!”
+++
Related articles
- All it needs is love – The Economist
- Morning Macro Call With Keith McCullough: We’re Running Out Of Central Plans, Global Slowdown Looming
- Paul B. Farrell: Capitalists are destroying capitalism along with the planet
- Pope tells EU: “We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a vast cemetery”
- Pope Francis criticises European Union over treatment of migrants
- Pope Francis urges European Parliament to improve conditions for migrant workers
- Pope: EU risks loss of trust
- Why both Keyensian and Free market economic schools are wrong…
- Developed economies are not suffering from the consequences of a financial crash, but from a structural crisis of neoliberal capitalism
- Sustainable development economics
99% of population have only 1% of country’s property,while 1% of population get 99% of country’s property.
In my opinion, Capitalism is an institutionalized system that started in Europe in the 16th century to the 19th century, the time when the development of commercial banking in Europe. In Capitalism, a group of individuals and groups can act as a specific entity that can have a trade or private property, especially capital goods such as land and human labor, in a free market where prices are determined by supply and demand, for the sake of making a profit in which its status is protected by the state through the ownership rights and obedience to the laws of the state or to those who are bound by a contract that has been arranged in a clear way, either explicit or implicit obligations and are not solely depend on the obligations and protections…
View original post 333 more words
Rate this:
#16Century #Bulimia #Capitalism #FreeMarket #Greed #MakingProfit #Materialism #Monoploy #Monopolies #Multinationals #Qquantity #Quality #QualityOfGoods #Smallholders