😂😂😂 the ‘everyone’ is the best part

Like reverse rent seeking. Nationalization by M&A. We need a new term for it.

we're in the "find out" phase of american imperial collapse

Two thirds of academics work in a highly competitive environment for poverty wages on insecure contracts. Maybe they don’t like capitalism for the same reason the rest of the proletariat does.

inflation makes people rich

Spekoulator Glenn van Brakel unusual_whales The American government actively and regularly supports wealth accumulation by elites--through tax breaks, subsidies, no-bid contracts, cushy political appointments, intellectual property protection, quantitative easing and more. So explain to me why ordinary people shouldn't get

Buffer stocks, strategic reserves and stockpiles, deep inventories—all of these tools are back in style for the West as risk and uncertainty rise. We all need to get reacquainted with what commodities market risk management looks like outside of the neoliberal open market

You could have gotten the same argument for free 14 months ago from IPEwithSBB… Just sayin’ x.com/ipewithsbb/sta…

He’s has the same attitude towards the kids who need food support. And unemployed workers. And folks not getting paychecks. And all the rest of us. This is exactly how many fucks he has to give.

We’ve reached the point where they want us to finance the crumbs they throw from their table.

How bad must it be

I’m not eating anything invented by Bill Gates. Read far too much sci-fi and international development history to take the risk.

They’re using the Matrix as a fucking handbook.

Notes on digital ID: as the empire crumbles and the U.S. dominion shrinks, capital turns inward to exploit its own people and territory more intensively, to substitute for the loss of extensive opportunities. Big Tech leads the way. Covid censorship, chipmakers give government a

🚨🇷🇸BREAKING: Serbs just kicked BlackRock and Vanguard out of the country! Mining giant Rio Tinto, largely owned by BlackRock, has officially paused its lithium project in Serbia. Protests against lithium mining in Serbia have been going on for more than three years.

Federal illegality means that the states have to act to protect local business. Marijuana is illegal federally and here in #Colorado we have a vibrant marketplace of small and mid-sized #cannabis businesses that serve their communities and enjoy massive local support in return.

I wonder if the fall of Rome was this stupid.

Even pretty bad Dennis Quaid movies are coming true now.

File this one away under de-globalization. These events make the Apple network smaller and increase demand for ICT alternatives. Other examples? China’s open source alternative to MS Word, alternative trade settlement networks…