🚨🇨🇭 NEW: The right-wing Swiss People's Party proposal to limit the country's population to 10 million before 2050 has been defeated in a referendum
Final results
✅ Support: 45.21%
❌ Oppose: 54.79%
Turnout: 58.86%
There’s literally a children’s board game whose whole premise is showing how free market capitalism ends with one person owning everything while everyone else goes bankrupt.
It's just so weırd how every single thing you're told happens under socialism is happening under capitalism. The bread lines, the unemployment, the authoritarianism.
“Capitalism made your iPhone.”
LABOR made your iPhone. Labor makes things under any -ism. The -isms only determine who is paid and how much they are paid.
You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. The actual reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.
"Lenders' confidence" is political fiction. A currency issuer doesn't borrow to spend. It spends and issues bonds. Real question: why choose unemployment over defence jobs?
#JobGuarantee#UKEconomy#MMT
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“illegal working”
Work defined (physics): the measure of energy transferred to or from an object when a force is applied and the object moves.
Theyre doing real actions, and we’ve determined that it’s illegal.
Those packages aren’t going to find its destination on its own.
🚨 NEW: Immigration officers raided DPD depots in Newbury and Basingstoke yesterday
7 Indian nationals, 1 Ghanaian national and 1 Pakistani national were arrested for suspected illegal working
Young people aren't losing faith. They're reading UK policy correctly: the state maintains unemployment to control inflation. A Job Guarantee ends that choice. It's political.
#JobGuarantee#UKEconomy#MMT
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Inflation isn't a mystery. It's a policy choice about who works and who doesn't. The old orthodoxy says you need joblessness to control prices; a "natural rate" of unemployment. That rate doesn't exist.
#MMT#JobGuarantee#UKEconomy