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Let's assume all billionaires disappear right now.
What do you think would get better?
I'll tell you. Nothing would.
Billions of humans on this planet abuse trillions if not quadrillions (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) of non-human animals yearly needlessly. You think the problem are billionaires? Zoom out. Humans are the problem. Humans are the vermin.
Humans love to blame others to avoid responsibility. #Vegan #Veganism #Speciesism #Antispeciesism #Antispeciesist #BeVegan #GoVegan #Billionaire #Billionaires #Profit #Money #Wealth #Violence #Abuse #Excuse #Excuses :vegan: -
Let's assume all billionaires disappear right now.
What do you think would get better?
I'll tell you. Nothing would.
Billions of humans on this planet abuse trillions if not quadrillions (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) of non-human animals yearly needlessly. You think the problem are billionaires? Zoom out. Humans are the problem. Humans are the vermin.
Humans love to blame others to avoid responsibility. #Vegan #Veganism #Speciesism #Antispeciesism #Antispeciesist #BeVegan #GoVegan #Billionaire #Billionaires #Profit #Money #Wealth #Violence #Abuse #Excuse #Excuses :vegan: -
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 MarginalianMore 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
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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 MarginalianMore 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
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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 MarginalianMore 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
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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 MarginalianMore 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
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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 MarginalianMore 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
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@IanStuart cool thst you have a #heart and take action... Most people will not understand, try again with a poster that shows what #us #weapons do to families, #rheinmetall and other #eu companies are no better, they #profit from #death and #fear and #trump and #putin makes #eu give them even more #money until the #ww3 #powderkek #explosion #surreal #protesters #germany glue themselves to ground to block entrance of #rheinmetall #factory #bonn over #weapon #delivery https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2cte4wipyk47qjujtxrskqcx/post/3muawpmpg4s2g
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Weird idea to stop #waste, #fraud, and, #abuse of #taxpayer #money.
If a #corporation's #employees qualify for #government #assistance, the corporation is required to #reimburse the assistance #program for #benefits disbursed, plus an additional percentage to cover the #cost of overhead and collection of money owed.
This would apply to employees working 30+ hours/week or who work any number of hours while holding multiple jobs.
I love my neighbors, but my #tax dollars should not be subsidizing #corporate #profit.
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It's well known by both sides of the spectrum in #politics, that the #US has a de-facto ruling #oligarchy in its tech and financial sectors despite all the democratic claims. An oligarchy able to control the political system, its legislation and the application of justice through their sheer possession of #money. It's control over public #institutions is undisputed... to the extent that, in daily practice, it is bound by no legislation, no intellectual #property. It embodies the very definition and practice of #anarchocapitalism, just not so formally stated as to explicitly reject the rule of #law. Appearances must be kept, but only to a certain extent.
#LatinAmerica has its own, endemic, oligarchy problem too; not coming out of its local tech sector, but from the #drugs dealing, human #trafficking, #smuggling, #prostitution, and murder-by-contract businesses instead. Because that is what they truly are: #businesses... organizations conducting particular forms of #trade, for the sake of personal #profit. Those oligarchs, just like its american counterparts, share the exact same anarchocapitalist view that the law shouldn't restrict the freedom to do business of any sort. Even if that business ends up with a couple of bullets inside the cranium of some 18 year old kid. Accidents can always happen at the job.
The enterprise in itself always had a direct link to organized #crime, not the least because of the identical nature of their entrepreneurial activity. And that, by necessity, means that very similar practices must take place in each. It's truly not surprising that every "fully legally compliant" #enterprise is, behind closed doors, hiding plenty of illegal practices within... from #taxevasion thanks to carefully selected international banks and falsified accounting records, to financial #fraud designed to deceive investors and shareholders.
In certain moments, when this symmetry becomes specially obvious, one side and the other can truly and visibly overlap. This is how a sizable group of american business men made their initial fortunes trafficking alcohol during times of #prohibition, in the 20s and 30s, only to become the established entrepreneurial class of later years. Now, the direct successors of that group of oligarchs are in Silicon Valley at the moment, busy at the task of physically destroying the local and global environment, along with millions of old and out of print books for AI training purposes. The law, as we can imagine, has nothing to say about that.
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Vile example of #US #FirstAmendment's #rapacious #exploit devoid of #socialResponsibility 👇😡
#Senators demand #crackdown on #wildfire "prediction market" #bets @arstechnica
"“Offering bets on destructive wildfires threatens to minimize communities’ suffering, all so the #rich & #powerful can #profit,” wrote the group of senators, who represent Oregon, California, Nevada, Minnesota, & New Hampshire.. tt #Polymarket 👈🤬hosted bets in Jan2025 on te wildfires in #LosAngeles"
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Rheinmetall im Roten Wedding – Nachbarn wehren sich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HzD1LMdVE8
#GabyWeber, #video, #dokumentation, #blackrock, #rheinmetall, #berlin, #wedding, #fabrik, #waffen, #zeitenwende, #militarisierung, #aufrüstung, #kriegswirtschaft, #kriegsgewinner, #kriegsverbrechen, #profit, #bundeswehr, #jugend, #perspektivlosigkeit, #kritiklos, #medien, #protest, #repressionen, #haftbefehl, #kooperationspflicht, #schulen, #offiziere, #uniformen, #propaganda, #bedrohungslage, #israel, #russland, usw.
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https://www.europesays.com/hu/187952/ Veszteséges lett a Shein, két tényező ütötte meg a kínai divatóriást #EKereskedelem #Hungarian #kína #Magyar #News #profit #Világ #World #WorldNews
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RE: https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/116977254724190737
Es gibt einen Unterschied im Begriff „Verstehen“: dass Verantwortliche bis in Politik, Medien und Wirtschaft hinein auf die Klimakrise nur mit Reaktanz, Externalisierung und gierigem Fossilismus reagieren, kann ich (& können wir) längst psychologisch verstehen.
Und dennoch habe ich immer wieder emotionale Momente zwischen Wut und Trauer, in denen mich quält, wie Menschen das Schicksal Hunderttausender, bald Millionen Mitmenschen sowie von Tieren & Mitwelt so egal sein kann!
Alle könnten etwas verändern (& sei es weniger Produkte aus Massentierhaltung verzehren, erneuerbare Friedensenergien fördern), doch zu wenige tun es auch.
Für eine Solarpunk - Zukunft zu arbeiten bedeutet leider auch, Illusionen über die vermeintliche Macht der Vernunft hinter sich zu lassen. So viele „könnten“ längst verstehen, wollen aber nicht…
#Klimakrise #Klimakatastrophe #Europa #Frankreich #Spanien #Kanada #Verdrängung #Reaktanz #Externalisierung #Profit #Fossilismus #Trauer #Wut #Solarpunk
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"Si la mondialisation néolibérale est un cadre indépassable, alors nous ne sommes déjà plus en démocratie, puisque, quels que soient ceux qui seront élus, ils ne pourront mener que des politiques identiques à des nuances près."
Jacques Nikonoff#servicepublic #intérêtgénéral #profit #inégalité #dissonancecognitive #viande #aimer #aimer❤️ #liberalisme #neoliberalisme #capitalisme #capitalocene #croissance #dessin #meme #dessincontemporain #dessinsatirique
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"Si la mondialisation néolibérale est un cadre indépassable, alors nous ne sommes déjà plus en démocratie, puisque, quels que soient ceux qui seront élus, ils ne pourront mener que des politiques identiques à des nuances près."
Jacques Nikonoff#servicepublic #intérêtgénéral #profit #inégalité #dissonancecognitive #viande #aimer #aimer❤️ #liberalisme #neoliberalisme #capitalisme #capitalocene #croissance #dessin #meme #dessincontemporain #dessinsatirique
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"Si la mondialisation néolibérale est un cadre indépassable, alors nous ne sommes déjà plus en démocratie, puisque, quels que soient ceux qui seront élus, ils ne pourront mener que des politiques identiques à des nuances près."
Jacques Nikonoff#servicepublic #intérêtgénéral #profit #inégalité #dissonancecognitive #viande #aimer #aimer❤️ #liberalisme #neoliberalisme #capitalisme #capitalocene #croissance #dessin #meme #dessincontemporain #dessinsatirique
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@jabgoe2089 heisst dass, diese 🇩🇪 Regierung setzt ⛽ fossilen #Profit vor #Kindeswohl ❓ #unsereKinder
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Dit maakt me blij 😀
Rechtvaardigheid ⚖️
Niet voor niks afscheid van G. genomen [bijna klaar] ✅#machtsmisbruik #google #EU #nieuws #boete #privacy #kapitalisme #winstbejag #service
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“For decades, governments insisted that public finances required austerity. Hospitals, universities, pensions and social welfare supposedly had to accept painful budget discipline. Suddenly, none of these fiscal constraints apply to military expenditure. Deficits that were politically impossible for healthcare or education have become entirely acceptable for weapons procurement. Defence spending is no longer presented as a burden but as an investment strategy and an excellent possibility for job openings (they don’t mention the expanded graveyards that usually go along with warfare)”
- quoting Biljana Vankovska in Savage Minds on Substack
“NATO 3.0: Alliance or Military-Industrial Investment Fund?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/savageminds/p/nato-30
#Press #SocialMedia #NATO #EU #US #UK #PermanentWar #Capitalism #Profit #War #Russia #China
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Is Palantir the most ball-breakingly evil, corrupt & ideologically fascist company in the world?
Answers on a postcard!
“Exclusive: How Palantir harvested millions in UK tax breaks”
by Aman Seth and Jade-Ruth Yan in OpenDemocracy
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@thegreenparty
@ZackPolanski“The controversial tech firm has won at least £670m in UK public contracts in recent years, which have helped to make the country its second-largest market by revenue after the United States, where it is headquartered. Yet despite accounting for 10% of the company’s global revenue last year, its tax payments in the UK amounted to less than 5% of its total global cash tax spend, according to US filings”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/exclusive-how-palantir-harvested-millions-in-uk-tax-breaks/
#Press #SocialMedia #Journalism #UK #Palantir #PalantirUK #Labour #Starmer #McSweeney #Mandelson #Profit #Tax #TaxBreaks #Stocks #PublicSectorContracts #Thiel #Karp
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1828-05), “Goethe’s Helena,” Foreign Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Article 5More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84415…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #acquisition #action #doing #gain #life #meaningoflife #profit
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Clouds außer Kontrolle
Wem gehört "die Cloud"
Lesenswert - und erst recht wert durchgesetzt zu werden.
Mehr dazu bei https://www.greenpeace.de/klimaschutz/klimakrise/die-gefaehrliche-macht-der-cloud-anbieter
a-fsa.de/d/3Q1
Link zu dieser Seite: https://www.a-fsa.de/de/articles/9550-20260601-clouds-ausser-kontrolle.html
Link im Tor-Netzwerk: http://a6pdp5vmmw4zm5tifrc3qo2pyz7mvnk4zzimpesnckvzinubzmioddad.onion/de/articles/9550-20260601-clouds-ausser-kontrolle.html
Tags: #Cloud #Besitz #Kontrolle #GAFAM #Google #Amazon #AWS #Facebook #Apple #Microsoft #Umwelt #Energie #Wasser #Ressourcen #Arbeitsbedingungen #AI #KI #Training #Profit #JBS #Shell #Palantir #Andruil #Ethikrichtlinie #Greepeace -
Ganz genau so, @ElisabethK 🙏👍🇩🇪🇪🇺
Es dürfte doch inzwischen Konsens sein, dass es ein Fehler war, erst die Sowjetunion und dann das Putin-Regime über Jahrzehnte hinweg fossil zu finanzieren.
Und jetzt verscherbeln „wir“ nach der Solar- und Auto- auch noch die Chemieindustrie für kurzfristige Profite nach China? Was soll das, BASF?
#Fossilismus #Tyrannophilie #Sowjetunion #Putin #China #Solarindustrie #Autoindustrie #Chemieindustrie #BASF #Profit #Deutschland #EU https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/erklaert-die-rentierstaatstheorie-nicht-nur-die-krise-des-islams-sondern-auch-den-langen-bestand-der-sowjetunion/
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Chercheurs américains en intelligence artificielle
🔸 "Au cours des derniers jours, un certain nombre de membres du personnel d'IA de haut niveau ont décidé de démissionner, certains avertissant explicitement que les entreprises pour lesquelles ils travaillaient évoluent trop vite et minimisent les lacunes de la technologie."
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/business/openai-anthropic-departures-nightcap
#tech #média #science #IA #AI #chercheurs #risques #OpenAI ##ChatGPT #Claude #recherche #profit #sécurité #dérives #USA #danger -
Psikologi “Hampir Profit”: Efek Mental Setelah TP Kena Dikit
#Tradingan - #Psikologi “#Hampir Profit”: Efek Mental Setelah TP Kena Dikit - Dalam dunia #trading, kerugian sering dianggap sebagai musuh utama. Namun bagi banyak #trader, ada satu kondisi yang secara mental justru terasa lebih menyiksa daripada loss: ketika harga hampir menyentuh Take Profit (#TP), lalu berbalik arah dan akhirnya gagal memberikan #profit. Selisihnya kadang hanya satu atau dua pip, bahkan…
https://tradingan.com/psikologi-hampir-profit-efek-mental-setelah-tp-kena-dikit
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Psikologi “Hampir Profit”: Efek Mental Setelah TP Kena Dikit
#Tradingan - #Psikologi “#Hampir Profit”: Efek Mental Setelah TP Kena Dikit - Dalam dunia #trading, kerugian sering dianggap sebagai musuh utama. Namun bagi banyak #trader, ada satu kondisi yang secara mental justru terasa lebih menyiksa daripada loss: ketika harga hampir menyentuh Take Profit (#TP), lalu berbalik arah dan akhirnya gagal memberikan #profit. Selisihnya kadang hanya satu atau dua pip, bahkan…
https://tradingan.com/psikologi-hampir-profit-efek-mental-setelah-tp-kena-dikit
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VNPT đạt lợi nhuận 6.598 tỷ đồng trong năm 2025, với doanh thu hợp nhất toàn tập đoàn đạt 61.246 tỷ đồng, vượt 101,2% kế hoạch. Công ty mẹ đóng góp 48.088 tỷ đồng doanh thu. Tập đoàn công bố chiến lược "Go Global" nhằm mở rộng hoạt động ra thị trường quốc tế, tập trung vào công nghệ số, viễn thông và chuyển đổi số.
#VNPT #GoGlobal #LợiNhuận #DoanhThu #ChuyểnĐổiSố #CôngNghệ #Telecommunications #DigitalTransformation #Revenue #Profit #VietnamTech
#VNPT #ChiếnLượcToànCầu #CôngNghệSố #KinhDoanh -
#EndeGelende #ExtinctionRebellion #widerstand #neuewelt #umwelt #klimakatastrophe #FossileLobby #profit #DakotaPipeline #RWE #Garzweiler #HambacherForst #SeaShepherd #Amazonas #muvuka #DrawDown
Aufgeben ist keine Option!
#Arte #Doku "Widerstand - Eine neue Welt" (1/3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w_e7MG7GcA
#klima #klimawandel #klimakollaps #klimaumbruch #wetter #extremwetter #unwetter #Extremniederschlag #hochwasser #hitze #dürre #überschwemmung #klimaschutz #umweltschutz #umwelt #artensterben
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Merlin et Ruffat heureux des #profit qu'ils pourront partager avec #Shein grâce à l' #esclavage des #Laogai
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Nein, womöglich liegen wir gar nicht so weit auseinander. Ich sehe das Problem der #Ökonomie eben nicht erst in der #Umverteilung , sondern schon in der #Erzeugung von #Profit. Daher sind m.E. sowohl die Ideologien des #Kapitalismus wie des #Marxismus von Anfang an durch den #Fossilismus geprägt worden. Die Auswirkungen sehen wir bis in die Christ- & #Sozialdemokratie hinein. Es ist schwer, aus einem zwei Jahrhunderte dominierenden #Paradigma herauszufinden… https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/der-fossilismus-kann-nicht-alleine-militaerisch-besiegt-werden-er-ist-staerker-als-kapitalismus-und-sozialismus/
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A quotation from John Maynard Keynes
If Enterprise is afoot, Wealth accumulates whatever may be happening to Thrift; and if Enterprise is asleep, Wealth decays, whatever Thrift may be doing.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
Treatise on Money, Book 6, ch. 30 (1930)More info about this quote: wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #keynes #johnmaynardkeynes #budget #effort #enterprise #hardwork #makingmoney #money #profit #savings #thrift #wealth
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COLONIZED
"they are coming for every second of your life.""we used to colonize land, that was the thing you could expand into, and that's where money was to be made. we colonized the entire earth, there's no other place for businesses and capitalism to expand into, and then they realized: human attention.
they are now trying to colonize every minute of your life..." - Bo Burnham
#SocialMedia #ColonizingTheMind #FarmingAttention #YourLife #Colonized #Profit #Capitalism
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At any rate to me it seems clearer every day that the moral problem of our age is concerned with the love of money, with the habitual appeal to the money motive in nine-tenths of the activities of life, with the universal striving after individual economic security as the prime object of endeavour, with the social approbation of money as the measure of constructive success, and with the social appeal to the hoarding instinct as the foundation of the necessary provision for the family and for the future.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
Essays in Persuasion, Part 4 “Politics,” ch. 1, sec. 2 (1931)More info about this quote: wist.info/keynes-john-maynard/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #keynes #johnmaynardkeynes #avarice #economicsecurity #greed #hoarding #immorality #money #profit #wealth #success
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
The absence of effective State, and, especially, National, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise.
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, KansasSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terryroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #economicinjustice #generalwelfare #income #money #power #profit #regulation #wealth
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The Capitalist Genocide Against Palestinians
https://www.instagram.com/p/DM74pVUhlGS/
“Today, in one of the small parts of this land, the capitalist system is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. We cannot forget, we cannot set aside,” said the spokesperson and leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in Mexico.
#ELZN #CapitalistGenocide #Gaza #Profit #MassMurder #Israel #West #ArmsSales #Zapatista #Mexico
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So, turns out Orwell predicted #generativeAI in #music production. What he didn't predict was that it would be produced by "free enterprise." It is the #musicindustry and the need for unmittigated #growth in #revenue and #profit . Easy and #costeffective #surveilance and #managment of the masses is merely a welcomed side-effect.
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/nineteen-eighty-four/#atom-everything
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
We are face to face with new conceptions of the relations of property to human welfare, chiefly because certain advocates of the rights of property as against the rights of men have been pushing their claims too far. The man who wrongly holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare, who rightly maintains that every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.
Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-08-31), “The New Nationalism,” Osawatomie, KansasSourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/3…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #community #humanrights #humanity #profit #property #propertyrights #publicwelfare #regulation #welfare
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#Trump ist bekanntlich ein Fan von #Kohlekraftwerken und will diese stärker fördern. Dafür hat er jetzt eine Regel gelockert, die Kraftwerke verpflichtete, weniger Giftstoffe in die Luft zu blasen. Jetzt dürfen sie wieder mehr #Quecksilber und andere gesundheitsschädliche Abgase über die Menschen verteilen. Ist doch auch egal, Hauptsache der #Profit ist nicht gefährdet.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/16042025/power-plants-exempted-from-federal-mercury-limits/
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(1/5) Das Internet fördert eine #Ausbeutungswirtschaft, bei der viele Menschen wertvolle Dinge erarbeiten und der daraus resultierende #Reichtum aber kaum der #Gesellschaft, sondern nur einigen wenigen Unternehmen zugute kommt.
Mit den #KI-Systemen hat sich der Prozess weiter beschleunigt.
Die Arbeit von #Kreativen wird zum #Trainieren der Systeme genutzt, doch den #Profit haben sie nicht davon. -
Blog: Voices of #Decolonization
#FirstNations chiefs shouldn’t be duped by the ‘#nuclear-is-green' deception
by William Eric Altvater, February 6, 2025
"Some First Nation Chiefs are victims of shenanigans, not unlike the swindle behind the purchase of Manhattan. The federal government needs the support of #Indigenous peoples to expand nuclear power generation capacity in #Canada.
"For millennia, the cornerstones of the Indigenous people that inhabit Turtle Island, now known as North America, held all that is essential to life, in reverence. Every decision considered the next 7 generations. These cornerstones are crumbling.
"Newcomers, armed with the #Colonizing tool, 'The #DoctrineOfDiscovery' and their mentality of superiority, invaded the land of those they called 'Savages,' almost totally exterminating #Skicinuwok, People of The Earth.
"Determined to bestow Christianity and civility to this wild untamed population, old growth forests were cut, rivers and streams were dammed to power sawmills, roads and railroads were built, bridges erected. All to create an infrastructure for #capitalism, a system to make a #profit, that morphed into #greed, a word of foreign root. This unbridled desire for progress has ruined what was once called Paradise.
"Now most water is not fit to drink, clean air is scarce, #deforestation is rampant, #biodiversity loss out of control, plants genetically modified, food manufactured with unpronounceable chemicals, caged fish starved of oxygen while being fed chicken feathers and pig parts, cancer cases in the millions, the list goes on.
"As the population increased over this continent the available sources for power generation have not been able to satisfy the insatiable desires of the 'bigger, better, faster, more is never enough' mentality. Some have finally acknowledged the fact that #FossilFuels are not the golden egg they were once deemed to be.
"So-called '#GreenEnergy' is required to slow the blind drive to extinction of man; man, who is considered by some to be the most intelligent creature to ever roam Earth. Unfortunately, the lure of riches and the corruption of self-serving purposes have led man to stray from practices that nurture everything required to sustain life on this tiny blue marble floating through the universe.
"#NuclearPower is now being touted as being 'Green.' It is not. Big money corporations are lobbying legislators to convince them and the public that it is. They are also lobbying to convince the public that they should foot the bill in the form of taxes and rate hikes, for a process that pollutes from the day it starts. Water is life. As soon as #uranium is mined from the earth it begins to contaminate the water in surrounding aquifers.
"When the uranium is processed sufficiently, it is used as fuel for reactors where it generates heat while delivering electricity, not just for essential needs, but also for many things once considered luxuries. This fission generated heat is then dumped into nearby waters where it kills thousands, if not millions of small beings that form the basis of life itself.
"After this radioactive fuel is depleted, it is stored in various containers where it will stay radioactive for eons. Indigenous #Grandmothers have labelled it 'Forever Dangerous.'
"The power generated during the fission process benefits only those who exist today as the process occurs, not those born tomorrow or next week or next month. All the #RadioactiveWaste and the inherent danger it creates is left to future generations, kicking the can down the road.
"What better place to dump this waste than in an area with a population that has witnessed Newcomers enrich themselves for hundreds of years? Yes, what better place than a population that has been targeted for assimilation, suffered theft of lands, witnessed the taking of naturally bestowed rights? A population that has been subjected to racial Indian Act legislation essentially stripping away all that sustained this population for thousands of years.
"Yes, let us give the Indians some more shiny beads and trinkets so that they willingly agree to care for our radioactive garbage. How do we do this? Let’s talk to the Chief and Council. Let’s wine and dine them. Let’s give them some money, take them to dinner, buy some drinks and make them feel all festive and most of all make them think we are looking out for their best interests. Some Chiefs have taken the bait.
"Egregious as it may be, this is exactly what is happening in some Indigenous communities contrary to the will of the majority. Elected Chiefs are continuing the deception as they are blinded and professing the 'Nuclear is Green' mantra. They have lost connection with the Spirit of Ancestors and traditional values. They need to have a serious introspection and realize that looking forward, we need only look back at what has sustained us to this point in time. We need not do any more than that."
Eric lives in #PeskotomuhkatiNation territory in Maine and stands shoulder to shoulder with his Peskotomuhkati relations in #NewBrunswick in the struggle to achieve Canadian Government recognition.
https://www.wabanakireach.org/first_nations_chiefs_shouldn_t_be_duped_by_the_nuclear_is_green_deception_by_william_altvater
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US #healthcare isn't a "fight," it's #greed -driven #InsuranceCompanies extracting #profit from sick people, then making it harder for #doctors and #hospitals to get paid.
Insurers Inventing More Roadblocks to Claims:
Healthcare providers say insurance companies are innovating new ways to make it harder to get paid. Physicians, hospitals and other providers have always complained of low rates, delayed payments and the usual red tape. But rules insurers such as Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, UnitedHealthcare and Elevance Health have recently announced may be a new battleground in the age-old fight between the two campshttps://www.modernhealthcare.com/insurance/claims-denials-review-unitedhealth-bcbs-mi-elevance
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#Degrowth and the Unmaking of #Capitalism
By Giuseppe Feola, Olga Koretskaya, originally published by Degrowth.info
December 7, 2020"Our societies are facing multiple interconnected challenges, which include #ClimateEmergency, an unprecedented loss of #biodiversity, growing #inequality and #PlasticPollution. What connects these challenges is the underlying capitalist economic model, which prioritizes #profit-making over #wellbeing and requires endless #EconomicGrowth simply to stay afloat.
"Degrowth offers an alternative vision – it is a project of urgent and fundamental transformation. Degrowth requires reimagining our societies from the perspective of being profit-centred to being wellbeing-centred. This approach distinguishes degrowth from other, more compromising visions of transformation, such as ‘green growth’. But how can society transition towards degrowth?
"One idea that has become prominent in thinking about such a transition is that of ‘#decolonization of the imaginary’, a concept developed by Serge Latouche. This concept signals the need for a disruption of taken-for-granted ways of seeing the world, and their associated practices, rules and social norms. Decolonization of the imaginary questions deeply rooted beliefs about who we are, how we live, and about our place in this world. Are we merely self-interested individuals or are we also care-oriented members of communities? To what extent do technology and #consumption contribute to human wellbeing? Does our constantly expansive economy threaten human communities and the natural world?
"Decolonization of the imaginary has been an inspirational idea for scholars and activists alike. Yet, it alone seems to be insufficient to take us to fully grasping the depth of disruptions of capitalism that have been produced by initiatives such as transition towns, #permaculture farms, and #RepairCafes. Decolonization of the imaginary emphasises the symbolic dimensions of social change but it underplays the material dimensions of such change. It is also usually understood as an end point, and hence fails to help us to recognize – and learn about – what happens along the way.
"How can we think about the processes by which disruptions of capitalism occur in broader, deeper and more dynamic ways? Is it possible for us to better capture what is going on in concrete initiatives?
"In a recent article, Giuseppe Feola proposes that we think about the disruption of capitalism in terms of ‘#unmaking’. He suggests that an unmaking of capitalism is not only necessary, but possibly pre-conditional for a transformation of the magnitude and nature required by degrowth. ‘Unmaking’ refers to individual or collective actions of disengagement or active deconstructions of existing capitalist systems that ‘make space’ for alternatives. Such actions could take the form of a personal decision to limit consumption or to quit a high-paying job at an #OilCorporation. Unmaking can also be recognized in a #CommunityFarm that refuses to submit to market pressure to expand production and instead turns to a #CommunitySupported model to sustain itself."
Read more:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-12-07/degrowth-and-the-unmaking-of-capitalism/
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