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  1. A quotation from Maria Popova

    Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

    Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
    Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

    More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

  2. A quotation from Maria Popova

    Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

    Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
    Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

    More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

  3. A quotation from Maria Popova

    Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

    Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
    Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

    More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

  4. A quotation from Maria Popova

    Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

    Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
    Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

    More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

  5. A quotation from Maria Popova

    Somewhere, some rights-holder — in this case, Kultur Video — decided it was better for the world that no one see the interview online than that people see it and no one profit from it. This, right here, is the deepest, saddest brokenness of current thinking on intellectual “property” as a wealth of humanity’s greatest intellectual and creative treasures rot in the clenched talons of rights-holders unable to monetize their properties and unwilling to make them available for free. As long as we continue to place commercial profit above cultural profit, especially when it comes to archival materials and cultural preservation, we are doomed to a future bitterly divorced from its past.

    Maria Popova (b. 1983) Bulgarian-American essayist, author, critic [Мария Попова]
    Post (2012-04-30), “Orson Welles: A Rare 1960 Interview,” The Marginalian

    More about this quote: wist.info/popova-maria/85926/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mariapopova #themarginalian #commercialism #culturallegacy #culturalpreservation #culture #history #intellectualproperty #monetization #past #profit #rightsholder #takedown

  6. #Travail, #salaire, #profit | Épisode 3 | #ARTE / @artefr.bsky.social

    youtu.be/6bLUCSsR_u0

    Série documentaire (France, 2019, 54mn)

    Gérard #Mordillat et Bertrand #Rothé interrogent des chercheurs internationaux sur les concepts fondamentaux de l’économie. Une plongée passionnante, à l'heure où le néolibéralisme traverse une crise profonde. Dans ce volet : les notions de salaire, de revenu universel et de salariat.

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  7. #Travail, #salaire, #profit | Épisode 3 | #ARTE / @artefr.bsky.social

    youtu.be/6bLUCSsR_u0

    Série documentaire (France, 2019, 54mn)

    Gérard #Mordillat et Bertrand #Rothé interrogent des chercheurs internationaux sur les concepts fondamentaux de l’économie. Une plongée passionnante, à l'heure où le néolibéralisme traverse une crise profonde. Dans ce volet : les notions de salaire, de revenu universel et de salariat.

    1/2

  8. Challenging Common Myths in Business and Economics

    March 26, 2026 Do you sometimes hear a statement that seems false to you? You think that this cannot be right. Sometimes such statements could be exaggerations; it is the way some people talk. But other times, a statement may be paritally or totally false because you know the subject matter. How do you react in such situations? You may not be able to argue with a statement on live TV or in a large lecture hall. In a small group, though, you might voice your contrary opinion or choose to […]

    andrasthehun.ca/2026/03/26/cha

  9. A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

    Now, this means that our government, national and state, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
    Speech (1910-08-31), "The New Nationalism," John Brown Memorial Park dedication, Osawatomie, Kansas

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #bigbusiness #corruption #government #lobbying #moniedinterests #politics #profit #specialinterests

  10. #Trump's #SurgeonGeneral pick criticizes others' conflicts but #profits from *wellness* product sales

    Trump’s pick to be the next US Surgeon General has repeatedly said the nation’s #medical, #health & #food systems are corrupted by #SpecialInterests & people out to make a #profit at the expense of Americans’ health.

    #hypocrisy #law #USpol #PublicHealth #science #medicine
    apnews.com/article/surgeon-gen

  11. A quotation from Ambrose Bierce

    POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

    Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
    “Politics,” The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/1081/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #government #graft #politics #principles #profit #publicaffairs #specialinterests

  12. @SharkAttak A chief failure of the profit motive is that it cares not a whit where profit comes from.

    If profit derived only from wealth as defined by Adam Smith ("the produce and labour of the nation"), that would be fine.

    But profit is in fact an accounting artefact, not an economic one. That bit of equivocation is at the heart of a great deal of the apparent contradictions and fallacies of mainstream economics.

    Profit is based on realised costs and revenues, which means that any trick which can be used to lower or offset / externalise costs, and to inflate or capture revenues, is a net gain to the business.

    That's why "free market" entrepreneurs are not in fact in favour of free markets where they can secure higher profits by suppressing free markets. Whether that's through dumping toxic waste (physical or informational), fraud, slavery, labour oppression, tax avoidance, quashing or buying competitors, oppressing suppliers, inserting themselves as middlemen in trade (capturing both supplier and consumer surplus), monopolisation, regulatory capture, lobbying, or any of the other abuses.

    Markets can be effective, but generally only where there is a balance of power between capital, labour, government, and common weal generally. If you read Smith closely you'll find that he's a champion of small scale commerce, but casts a jaundiced eye on monopolies (he doesn't use that word, but search for "engross" within Wealth and you'll find some mention), and those who can influence the State to their own interests (wool merchants get a call-out).

    As best as I've been able to trace, it, the principles of cost accounting in the US were set out by Alexander Hamilton Church (and yes, related to that A.H.), see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexande.

    There's a wonderful inquiry into cost accounting by Leo Tolstoy in, I think in What Is To Be Done, (sometimes "What Then Must We Do") a collection of essays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_ theanarchistlibrary.org/librar.

    @Gotterdammerung

    I'm pretty sure @pluralistic is aware of much of this but AHC may be of interest.

    #Economics #EconomicFallacies #equivocation #profit #wealth #ProfitVsWealth #AlexanderHamiltonChurch #accounting #FreeMarkets #LeoTolstoy #WhatIsToBeDone #WhatThenMustWeDo

  13. @SharkAttak A chief failure of the profit motive is that it cares not a whit where profit comes from.

    If profit derived only from wealth as defined by Adam Smith ("the produce and labour of the nation"), that would be fine.

    But profit is in fact an accounting artefact, not an economic one. That bit of equivocation is at the heart of a great deal of the apparent contradictions and fallacies of mainstream economics.

    Profit is based on realised costs and revenues, which means that any trick which can be used to lower or offset / externalise costs, and to inflate or capture revenues, is a net gain to the business.

    That's why "free market" entrepreneurs are not in fact in favour of free markets where they can secure higher profits by suppressing free markets. Whether that's through dumping toxic waste (physical or informational), fraud, slavery, labour oppression, tax avoidance, quashing or buying competitors, oppressing suppliers, inserting themselves as middlemen in trade (capturing both supplier and consumer surplus), monopolisation, regulatory capture, lobbying, or any of the other abuses.

    Markets can be effective, but generally only where there is a balance of power between capital, labour, government, and common weal generally. If you read Smith closely you'll find that he's a champion of small scale commerce, but casts a jaundiced eye on monopolies (he doesn't use that word, but search for "engross" within Wealth and you'll find some mention), and those who can influence the State to their own interests (wool merchants get a call-out).

    As best as I've been able to trace, it, the principles of cost accounting in the US were set out by Alexander Hamilton Church (and yes, related to that A.H.), see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexande.

    There's a wonderful inquiry into cost accounting by Leo Tolstoy in, I think in What Is To Be Done, (sometimes "What Then Must We Do") a collection of essays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_ theanarchistlibrary.org/librar.

    @Gotterdammerung

    I'm pretty sure @pluralistic is aware of much of this but AHC may be of interest.

    #Economics #EconomicFallacies #equivocation #profit #wealth #ProfitVsWealth #AlexanderHamiltonChurch #accounting #FreeMarkets #LeoTolstoy #WhatIsToBeDone #WhatThenMustWeDo

  14. @SharkAttak A chief failure of the profit motive is that it cares not a whit where profit comes from.

    If profit derived only from wealth as defined by Adam Smith ("the produce and labour of the nation"), that would be fine.

    But profit is in fact an accounting artefact, not an economic one. That bit of equivocation is at the heart of a great deal of the apparent contradictions and fallacies of mainstream economics.

    Profit is based on realised costs and revenues, which means that any trick which can be used to lower or offset / externalise costs, and to inflate or capture revenues, is a net gain to the business.

    That's why "free market" entrepreneurs are not in fact in favour of free markets where they can secure higher profits by suppressing free markets. Whether that's through dumping toxic waste (physical or informational), fraud, slavery, labour oppression, tax avoidance, quashing or buying competitors, oppressing suppliers, inserting themselves as middlemen in trade (capturing both supplier and consumer surplus), monopolisation, regulatory capture, lobbying, or any of the other abuses.

    Markets can be effective, but generally only where there is a balance of power between capital, labour, government, and common weal generally. If you read Smith closely you'll find that he's a champion of small scale commerce, but casts a jaundiced eye on monopolies (he doesn't use that word, but search for "engross" within Wealth and you'll find some mention), and those who can influence the State to their own interests (wool merchants get a call-out).

    As best as I've been able to trace, it, the principles of cost accounting in the US were set out by Alexander Hamilton Church (and yes, related to that A.H.), see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexande.

    There's a wonderful inquiry into cost accounting by Leo Tolstoy in, I think in What Is To Be Done, (sometimes "What Then Must We Do") a collection of essays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_ theanarchistlibrary.org/librar.

    @Gotterdammerung

    I'm pretty sure @pluralistic is aware of much of this but AHC may be of interest.

    #Economics #EconomicFallacies #equivocation #profit #wealth #ProfitVsWealth #AlexanderHamiltonChurch #accounting #FreeMarkets #LeoTolstoy #WhatIsToBeDone #WhatThenMustWeDo

  15. @SharkAttak A chief failure of the profit motive is that it cares not a whit where profit comes from.

    If profit derived only from wealth as defined by Adam Smith ("the produce and labour of the nation"), that would be fine.

    But profit is in fact an accounting artefact, not an economic one. That bit of equivocation is at the heart of a great deal of the apparent contradictions and fallacies of mainstream economics.

    Profit is based on realised costs and revenues, which means that any trick which can be used to lower or offset / externalise costs, and to inflate or capture revenues, is a net gain to the business.

    That's why "free market" entrepreneurs are not in fact in favour of free markets where they can secure higher profits by suppressing free markets. Whether that's through dumping toxic waste (physical or informational), fraud, slavery, labour oppression, tax avoidance, quashing or buying competitors, oppressing suppliers, inserting themselves as middlemen in trade (capturing both supplier and consumer surplus), monopolisation, regulatory capture, lobbying, or any of the other abuses.

    Markets can be effective, but generally only where there is a balance of power between capital, labour, government, and common weal generally. If you read Smith closely you'll find that he's a champion of small scale commerce, but casts a jaundiced eye on monopolies (he doesn't use that word, but search for "engross" within Wealth and you'll find some mention), and those who can influence the State to their own interests (wool merchants get a call-out).

    As best as I've been able to trace, it, the principles of cost accounting in the US were set out by Alexander Hamilton Church (and yes, related to that A.H.), see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexande.

    There's a wonderful inquiry into cost accounting by Leo Tolstoy in, I think in What Is To Be Done, (sometimes "What Then Must We Do") a collection of essays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_ theanarchistlibrary.org/librar.

    @Gotterdammerung

    I'm pretty sure @pluralistic is aware of much of this but AHC may be of interest.

    #Economics #EconomicFallacies #equivocation #profit #wealth #ProfitVsWealth #AlexanderHamiltonChurch #accounting #FreeMarkets #LeoTolstoy #WhatIsToBeDone #WhatThenMustWeDo

  16. @SharkAttak A chief failure of the profit motive is that it cares not a whit where profit comes from.

    If profit derived only from wealth as defined by Adam Smith ("the produce and labour of the nation"), that would be fine.

    But profit is in fact an accounting artefact, not an economic one. That bit of equivocation is at the heart of a great deal of the apparent contradictions and fallacies of mainstream economics.

    Profit is based on realised costs and revenues, which means that any trick which can be used to lower or offset / externalise costs, and to inflate or capture revenues, is a net gain to the business.

    That's why "free market" entrepreneurs are not in fact in favour of free markets where they can secure higher profits by suppressing free markets. Whether that's through dumping toxic waste (physical or informational), fraud, slavery, labour oppression, tax avoidance, quashing or buying competitors, oppressing suppliers, inserting themselves as middlemen in trade (capturing both supplier and consumer surplus), monopolisation, regulatory capture, lobbying, or any of the other abuses.

    Markets can be effective, but generally only where there is a balance of power between capital, labour, government, and common weal generally. If you read Smith closely you'll find that he's a champion of small scale commerce, but casts a jaundiced eye on monopolies (he doesn't use that word, but search for "engross" within Wealth and you'll find some mention), and those who can influence the State to their own interests (wool merchants get a call-out).

    As best as I've been able to trace, it, the principles of cost accounting in the US were set out by Alexander Hamilton Church (and yes, related to that A.H.), see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexande.

    There's a wonderful inquiry into cost accounting by Leo Tolstoy in, I think in What Is To Be Done, (sometimes "What Then Must We Do") a collection of essays: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_ theanarchistlibrary.org/librar.

    @Gotterdammerung

    I'm pretty sure @pluralistic is aware of much of this but AHC may be of interest.

    #Economics #EconomicFallacies #equivocation #profit #wealth #ProfitVsWealth #AlexanderHamiltonChurch #accounting #FreeMarkets #LeoTolstoy #WhatIsToBeDone #WhatThenMustWeDo

  17. Farmers ‘very worried’ as US pesticide firms push to bar cancer diagnoses lawsuits

    theguardian.com/environment/20

    Pesticide company efforts to push through ‘Cancer Gag Act’ laws that could block litigation against them is igniting battles in several US farm states and pitting some farm groups against each other.

    #Malfeasance #Death #Profit #USA #Pesticide #Corporate #GagOrder #Liability #Iowa #EPA #Corruption #Lives #Health #Food

  18. CW: 💸 Jason Hickel: Det afgørende problem er, at kapitalismen er grundlæggende udemokratisk
    > »Men når det gælder produktionssystemet, eksisterer der end ikke et påskud om demokrati. Produktionen styres i afgørende grad af kapitalen: De store finansielle selskaber, kommercielle banker, store koncerner. Det er dem, der bestemmer, hvad vi producerer, og hvordan vi udnytter vores kollektive arbejdskraft og planetens ressourcer. For kapitalen er formålet med at øge produktionen hvert eneste år ikke at dække grundlæggende behov, skabe sociale fremskridt eller leve op til miljømæssige mål. Det er at maksimere og akkumulere profit. Det kan enhver professor i erhvervsøkonomi bekræfte.«

    Læs selv hele artiklen:

    🎁 Gavelink (artiklen kan læses uden abonnement):
    https://www.information.dk/udland/2024/06/jason-hickel-afgoerende-problem-kapitalismen-grundlaeggende-udemokratisk?kupon=eyJpYXQiOjE3MTc0Nzk1MTQsInN1YiI6IjE3NDE4MTo4MjE2NDAifQ.-VSgUvl1NDhDniBDbLeB9Q

    > »Alt det, vi faktisk kan gøre, har vi råd til.«
    >      ~John Maynard Keynes

    #demokrati
    #DKpol
    #forbrug
    #grønØkonomi
    #JasonHickel
    #kapitalisme
    #klima
    #Latipak
    #miljø
    #monopolmagt
    #overforbrug
    #overproduktion
    #politik
    #produktionssystem
    #profit
    #trivselsøkonomi
    #udemokratisk
    #vækstmotiv
    #vækstøkonomi
    #WellbeingEconomy
  19. @SabineHammerba Die #Verunsicherung über #KI & #Fediversum kann ich voll nachvollziehen - sehe aber eben auch eine #Ermutigung. Denn #Profit-orientierte Werbeleute sowie populistische #Dualisten werden die #Medien ohnehin wieder befüllen. Die Frage ist doch, ob viele von uns konstruktive, dialogische, monistische Inhalte dagegensetzen, dadurch die #Qualität verbessern. Und ich finde, das wäre gut.