capitalism

"No no everything’s fine. It’s perfectly normal for people to have 80 hour work weeks while billionaires transform into trillionaires and tech plutocrats feed all our drinking water to AI servers as the planet dies. "This is the only system that could possibly work. No no it’s great. If you...

And you may find a textbook example of how the Deep State collaborates with billionaires to enhance private fortunes by enabling war crimes on the opposite side of the planet: https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-trumps-white-gold-ukraine-deal-could-benefit-elon-musk/ "Elon Musk's future...

Richard Wolff argues economic systems regulated by master/slave, feudal lords/serfs, and employer/ employee relationships all make real democracy impossible. https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/07/socialisms-self-criticism-and-real-democracy/ "Democracy is incompatible with class-divided...

In 1992 a Deutsche Bank study argued Ukraine had the best prospect for economic success among all former Soviet states. Ukraine was one of the most industrially developed parts of the USSR. Privatization and "free markets" were expected to turn Ukraine into an economic powerhouse. How did that...

“That thing’s part of their so-called economics. None of them are going to tell you about any of that.” https://reason.com/2018/08/15/elizabeth-warren-plans-to-destroy-capita/ If you listen to Bernie Sanders – between heart attacks and unequal pay lawsuits filed by his own campaign workers –...

"How the Dominant Business Paradigm Turns Nice People into Psychopaths..." I suspect some of you are asking the question: Who Says So? "Lynn Stout is the Distinguished Professor of Corporate and Business Law at Cornell Law School. Professor Stout is an internationally-recognized expert in...

https://revpauljbern.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/capitalism-has-run-its-course-and-greed-is-the-reason-why/ According to research conducted by the Economic Policy Institute, as much as $15 billion a year worth of wages is stolen every year from low wage workers...

GIF from the cult film "Ivanka Attacks" . . . https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-entrepreneurship-usa-ivanka/ivanka-trump-feted-in-india-calls-for-closing-gender-gap-in-business-idUSKBN1DS0X4 I can just imagine the conversations at CNN, WaPo, etc now: “Listen, trying to turn Jared...

Dr. Robert Bullard was in the process of evacuating his Houston home when he offered these thoughts to Democracy Now! earlier this week: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/8/29/dr_robert_bullard_houston_s_unrestrained "Harvey and the aftermath, the flooding of Houston and the surrounding areas...

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-apple-iowa-welfare-20170829-story.html Oooh! I know . .. call on me! Call on me!” (ASOT). “It’s $4 million per job – waaaaaay more than the lifetime earnings of each job created” Per the link above – Iowa has ladled out $200 million to...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/08/25/time-redistribute-wealth-1-thriving-while-78-living-paycheck-paycheck# "Top CEOs may be thriving, but most American workers are drowning in debt, saving little, and living paycheck to paycheck. "That's according to a new report by CareerBuilder...

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/8/14/cornel_west_rev_toni_blackmon_clergy Cornel West was on the UVA campus last Friday night when hundreds of neo-Nazis, KKK members, and other white nationalists with burning torches sprung a surprise march across university property. The next day, Brother...