#whywecantaffordtherich — Public Fediverse posts

2024 #BuxtonFringe closes today. It gets better every year.

2 brilliant performances stand out from the few I got to see:

- "It's the Economy, Stupid!", citizenship theatre by a duo of 30-somethings who totally get #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich;
- "Ariana vs Chomsky", another duo of phenomenal actors on how core values can make and then break a romantic relationship (the backdrop was the hypocrisy of selective solidarity for victims of terrorism)

https://www.buxtonfringe.org.uk/descriptions2024.html#3539

#Buxton
#EdinburghFringe
🎭

"[...] if our need for fossil fuels is an addiction, the addicts are being told to stop while the dealers are getting government support!" 🔥
(Andrew Sayer, p. 334)

#WhyWeCantAffordTheRich - a book on #SocioEconomics that keeps on giving

#ClimateEmergency
#CostOfGreedCrisis

#CriticalRealism

'£260 billion *a day* is lost to #TaxEvasion & #TaxAvoidance combined. That's over 260 times #BenefitFraud'

Why are left-wing politicians unable to drill these facts with all the evidence to support them until they're etched in voters' brains?

#Plutocracy #Plutonomy #UKLabour #ClassWar #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2013/09/13/benefit-errors-cost-1-million-a-day-tax-avoidance-and-evasion-cost-260-million-a-day/

Seemingly unrelated thoughts but connected to #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich?

I've been invited to a symposium on #WhatMakesWritingAcademic @ Warwick Uni, UK, & hope issue of #English #AcademicPublishing & #Capitalism come up:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/

#FestaDeiLavoratori #PrimoMaggio