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  1. "When you search Amazon, the top results do not represent Amazon's best guess about what product will best match your query: rather, Amazon *auctions off* those top results to its platform sellers. Amazon's search results reflect who paid the biggest bribe, not who has the best product."
    - @pluralistic

    pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/che

    #Amazon #Enshittification #Business #Economy #Money #JeffBezos #Oligarchy #Plutocracy #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates #World #WorldNews

  2. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

    Maybe they should start by cutting their own spending of foreign donors' money.

    Funny how they're all against foreign people but all for foreign money.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cz977nxw

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #EpsteinClass

  3. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

    Maybe they should start by cutting their own spending of foreign donors' money.

    Funny how they're all against foreign people but all for foreign money.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cz977nxw

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #EpsteinClass

  4. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

    Maybe they should start by cutting their own spending of foreign donors' money.

    Funny how they're all against foreign people but all for foreign money.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cz977nxw

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #EpsteinClass

  5. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

    Maybe they should start by cutting their own spending of foreign donors' money.

    Funny how they're all against foreign people but all for foreign money.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cz977nxw

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #EpsteinClass

  6. Reform proposes £50bn welfare bill cut with changes to disability payments system Pip

    Maybe they should start by cutting their own spending of foreign donors' money.

    Funny how they're all against foreign people but all for foreign money.

    bbc.com/news/articles/cz977nxw

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #EpsteinClass

  7. Short but pithy #TrumpVirus #Truth from Robert Reich

    > How Trump Made America Expensive Again

    youtu.be/uXw1QpD2duo

    > Trump just said the quiet part out loud: he doesn't care about your finances. "Not even a little bit."

    > Here's where your money is going instead.

    #corruption #emoluments #WarCrimes #TrumpEpsteinFiles #coverup #TrumpVirus #nepotism #Kleptocracy #grifting #Plutocracy #Jan7 #fraud #sedition #treason #BrainSpurs

  8. * The Great Global Transformation
    The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order, Branko Milanovic >>
    press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/b

    * The U.S., China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order
    "After unprecedented economic growth during the 20th century, is the U.S. losing its place as a world power? How have China’s economic rise and its growing class of uber-wealthy elites shaken up its society? How are the seismic changes to both countries reshuffling the global economic order?" >>
    youtube.com/watch?v=xr1zscNHeYI
    #geopolitics #USChinaRelations #WorldEconomicOrder #SeismicShifts #US #China #growth #elites #UberWealthy #plutocracy #nationalism #NationalMarketLiberalism #degeneration #protectionism #inequality #SocialMobility #homoploutia #book

  9. @flyingpenguin @ErikUden

    Once again, the usual whining from privileged people who fear for their privileges and who are incapable of recognising their responsibility and their antisocial attitude: I can’t stand it anymore!!

    #colonialism #whataboutism #racism #privilege #taxtherich #solidarity #capitalism #clan #mimimi #plutocracy #whitepower #whitemen #trump #humanise #mamdani #politics #idiocracy #realestate

  10. #factCheck
    Claim by Senator Duckworth: “9% of American citizens don’t have the identification that the SAVE act requires to vote. Almost 1 in 10.”

    PolitiFact rating: Mostly True
    A 2023 national survey found about 9% of U.S. adult citizens either lack or cannot readily access documentary proof of citizenship, and a similar share lack a nonexpired driver’s license. However, the figure includes people who may have documents but cannot easily access them, and the survey was not limited specifically to registered voters.

    politifact.com/factchecks/2026

    > Democrats opposing the SAVE America Act, which would require certain documents to register to vote and cast a ballot, point to a study showing 9% of adult U.S. citizens would have difficulty with those requirements.

    #disenfranchisement #VRA #votingRights #voterID #constitutionalDemocracyWithoutEither
    #tyranny #plutocracy #feudalism

  11. Everything is fine.

    "Most Americans say that they can afford basic necessities like their current housing costs, groceries, utilities and gasoline. But large numbers across income levels also say larger expenses and the cost of things associated with an enjoyable life — including taking a weeklong vacation — are out of reach"
    #economics #housing #costofliving #rental #capitalism #cronyism #rigged #plutocracy
    washingtonpost.com/business/20

  12. A quotation from Bastiat

    When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
     
    [Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.]

    Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) French philosopher, economist, politician
    Economic Sophisms [Sophismes Économiques], 2nd Series, ch. 1 “Physiology of Plunder [Physiologie de la Spoliation]” (1848) [tr. Goddard (1964)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bastiat-frederic/395…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bastiat #fredericbastiat #robbery #corruption #exploitation #legalsystem #morality #plunder #plutocracy #selfserving #system #theft #meme

  13. As far as sticker price goes, the recommended #vaccines for #kids in the #UnitedStates do not come cheap. The #hepatitisB shot, given within the first hours of life, can be purchased for ~$30. The #rotavirus vaccine costs $102 to $147 a dose. A full course of the vaccine that protects against #pneumonia & #meningitis runs about $1,000.

    #PublicHealth #Health #medicine #law #Trump #RFKJr #AntiVax #eugenics #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy

  14. #PennedPossibilities 723 — Intelligence: Is your antagonist self-taught, or did they acquire most of their knowledge in school?

    #plutocracy #oligarchy #billionaires - the antagonists in "A New Faith" - have supposedly acquired their knowledge in school. Now I can't imagine where in schools is being #selfish #cruel #sociopathic #psychopathic etc. taught.
    But here we are. So this seems to be a "despite the system" issue instead of the "because of the system."

  15. The #Senate plan to slash #Medicaid & #ACA marketplace #funding could lead to nearly 12 million more people without insurance by 2034, the #CBO estimates. That in turn would harm the finances of #hospitals, #NursingHomes & #community #health centers—which would have to absorb more of the cost of treating #uninsured people—& may force them to reduce services & employees, as well as close facilities.

    #Trump #Republicans #Healthcare #medical #insurance #LowIncome #elderly #disabled #plutocracy

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  17. @Npars01

    #AbolishBillionaires #Plutocracy

    Very interesting view.
    I can see the point.
    Unless the masses all avoid the overpriced goods of the respective billionaires' companies, an argument could be made to save the poor, all must buy from them again, so that price-gourging becomes unnecessary.

    Other than that, theoretical solutions are easy:
    #WindfallProfitsTax and a #WealthTax and an inference tax that brings wealth distribution of the top 10% back to levels before the #RoaringTwenties...

  18. #GAFCAM = #GAFAM + #Cloudflare

    That company that not only collects your data, including every #DNSLookup you do on #Mozilla's #Firefox. Not only serves 30% of the internet, not only helps to train #killerDrones with #hCaptcha, not only can deny you access to critical websites at its discretion…

    They do all this while claiming #internetSecurity.

    #protectAndWebServe #extort #extortion #internetMafia #Mafia #droneWarfare #bigData #GFC #moneyPrinterGoBrr #internetIncestFamily #plutocracy

  19. @dredmorbius
    All great points. #RichardStallman talked about the dangerous trend towards #plutocracy recently on an interview he gave on #RT.

    The part about the #swingVoter is true. The #powerElite have refined tactics to understanding the swing voter so they can #manipulate them. Some of the #psychological techniques are covered in the fourth and final episode in #AdamCurtis' series, titled #TheCenturyOfTheSelf (2002, #BBC).
    @pluralistic