Reddit, r/antiwork, the FOX Interview, What Was Said (and What Might Have Been Said)
FOX News sharpens the contradictions within Reddit’s r/antiwork
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The American Hyper-Focus on Individualism Makes Us Poorer, Sicker, and Sadder
Our wealth, health and happiness problems are not individual personal troubles that can be resolved by exhorting people to think or act differently.
Read more...The Romance of Shipping Container Lashing
The material realities of the ocean and the workers lashing down the containers.
Read more...McKinsey: Net-Zero By 2050 Needs $9.2 Trillion Annual Investment
McKinsey gives a not surprisingly big estimate for the cost of energy transition. But it’s unlikely to have considered radical conservation.
Read more...California Could Be on the Verge of Passing Single-Payer Health Care
California Assembly Bill 1400 shows that the funding math of single payer healtcare works. But does the politics?
Read more...‘No More Hiding’: Sanders Says Make GOP Vote on Popular Policies
Sanders: “The American people have a right to know where their senators stand on the most important issues impacting their lives.”
Read more...The Saker Interviews Michael Hudson
Yves here. Michel Hudson, in this short talk with The Saker, debunks many widespread misperceptions about the dollar, the US economy, and the prospects for fundamental change. I have only a couple of teeny quibbles and a further thought. Hudson discusses private equity buying up single family homes. While that was a very big trend […]
Read more...How Inequality Leads to Industrial Feudalism
How highly unequal asset ownership diminishes social mobility and institutionalizes modern-era feudalism.
Read more...Covid: “The Narrative Is Crumbling”
The Covid spin-doctoring machine is staring to emit smoke.
Read more...Headstrong Girls and Dependent Boys: Gender Differences in the Labour Market Returns to Child Behaviour
Gender-stereotype defying boys and girls appear to carry on that way as adults and pay a financial price.
Read more...The World’s Food Systems Are in Crisis, and Big Agribusiness Is at Its Heart
Public finance plays a large role in agriculture. Instead of propping up corporate interests, it should learn from local food producers
Read more...Remember That the Tories Are Only Getting Rid of Johnson To Make Things Worse
What happens to and after Johnson which is very much in play.
Read more...Fable of the Squirrels: New Research on Wealth Inequality Among Animals Sparks Debate on Human Economies
Studies of beasts that pass on wealth, um, resources and advantages to offspring may inform whether humans create stratified conditions.
Read more...Rentier Capitalism and Class Warfare in Kazakhstan
Blame Kazakhstan ‘free’ market reforms that benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of the working class for recent protests.
Read more...An Introduction to Family Offices (and Generational Wealth)
The murky, unregulated world of family offices, where oligarchs manage their capital.
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