Tinguely Gilberte

[Evonomics.com @EvonomicsMag]

Scientist Frans de Waal: "The CEO of Enron – now in prison – happily applied ‘selfish gene’ logic to his human capital, thus creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Assuming that the human species is driven purely by greed and fear, Jeffrey Skilling produced employees driven by the same motives. Enron imploded under the mean-spirited weight of his policies, offering a preview of what was in store for the world economy as a whole." Archive pick: https://t.co/F3XJlh4kdk

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Booking systems and fees introduced in public pools, in the name of funding needs and safety, have quietly redesigned who our pools and ponds are for. The effect is exclusion, whatever the intent, and it falls hardest on working-class families and their kids. New article linked below.

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Bonjour @PPouyanne , j’ai été très surpris par votre communiqué qui affirme que @TotalEnergies ne délocalise pas ses profits dans des paradis fiscaux.

Permettez moi d’examiner ici vos arguments un par un, en toute rigueur et en toute clarté. 🧵

[LabourStart @labourstart]

28-07-1875 SWITZERLAND: Göschenen massacre. 2000 workers digging the Gotthard tunnel, almost all of them Italian, demanded breaks because of the arduous nature of the work. The militia opened fire: 4 dead, ten wounded, 13 prisoners.

[Filippo Grandi @FilippoGrandi]

The Refugee Convention is 75 years old today.

We must celebrate it, as it has saved millions of lives, and given hope to millions more. And we must defend it as it continues to do so.

@Refugees
@UN

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Upton Sinclair is also responsible for something else that passes without notice in our lives: the way we use shirt collars to talk about class.

About fifteen years after publishing The Jungle, Sinclair wrote "The Brass Check," which was a muckraking expose on American newsrooms. In it, he described the office clerks upstairs as wearing white collar dress shirts, while the people in the mailroom below as wearing blue collar button-ups. This taxonomic shorthand — white collar vs blue collar — would become a popular way for writers to sidestep the uncomfortable discussion of class throughout the 20th century.

Sinclair suggested that the ability to wear a white dress shirt allowed office clerks and middle managers to see themselves as socially distinct from laborers, even if they shared similar interests. An excerpt:

"It is a fact with which every union workingman is familiar, that his most bitter despisers are the petty underlings of the business world, the poor office-clerks, who are often the worst exploited of proletarians, but who, because they are allowed to wear a white collar and to work in the office with the boss, regard themselves as members of the capitalist class."

Of course, there were other dynamics at the time, such as race, but this taxonomic device (white collar, blue collar) continues to be popular today, especially in a post-industrial economy.

[The National @TheNationalNews]

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has responded after a young Palestinian girl filmed a mural of him being painted amid the war's devastation.

In the video message, he thanked her and the artists by saying Spain 'hears you, sees you, loves you and does not forget you'

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Bonjour M. @SebLecornu , alors que la France fait face à un été record de canicules et de méga-feux, TotalEnergies vient d’annoncer des bénéfices historiques.

Pourtant, Total ne paie toujours pas d’impôt sur les sociétés en France. Pourquoi ?

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

Quels pays se trouvent donc derrière ce « reste du monde » ? Nul ne le sait pour sûr, puisque @TotalEnergies ne l’indique nulle part.

Mais une étude attentive du tableau pays par pays va nous mettre sur la voie: au contraire de pays comme l’Eswatini ou les Fidji qui ont une ligne dans la comptabilité de Total, il n’y a mystérieusement aucune trace de Singapour et de la Suisse.

Deux des plus grands paradis fiscaux au monde.

Que Total préfère pudiquement inclure dans le « reste du monde ».

[Gabriel Zucman @gabriel_zucman]

@Shell ou @TotalEnergies ne sont pas des cas isolés.

Aujourd’hui, à peu près un tiers des profits multinationaux – c’est-à-dire des bénéfices réalisés par des entreprises en dehors du pays de leur siège social – sont ainsi enregistrés dans les paradis fiscaux.

Soit de l’ordre de 1.000 milliards d’euros par an.

Et ce n’est pas uniquement sous les tropiques que cette grande évasion a lieu, mais sous nos yeux : la moitié environ de ces bénéfices sont enregistrés dans les paradis fiscaux européens, Irlande, Luxembourg et Suisse au premier rang.

[Reinhard Schulze @SchulzeRein]

Solange der Motivhintergrund für selbstermächtigten Terror auf den semantisch leeren Begriff ‚#Islamismus’ reduziert wird, werden Prävention und Deradikalisierung keinen nachhaltigen Erfolg haben. Solche Taten sind nicht ideologisch gesteuert; sie folgen keinem Tatmuster,👇🏽

[Evonomics.com @EvonomicsMag]

Scientist @Peter_Turchin: "How did past societies end their disintegrative periods? A critical step is reversing the root cause of crisis—the perverse wealth pump that takes from the common people and gives to the elites. As described in End Times, good times breed complacency among the governing elites. During integrative phases they become tempted to rejiggle the political economy in ways that benefit themselves at the expense of the workers. As a result, worker wages stagnate and even decline, and the fruits of economic growth go disproportionately to the elites." Read his essay: https://t.co/sAE2Sxz3Mw

[Lucas Chancel @lucas_chancel]

Absolutely thrilled that @Nature devotes its editorial to our work, discusses the Global Justice Report and calls for an 'inequality IPCC'. "Why there needs to be a global debate on inequality" 👇🚨

[Geoffroy de Lagasnerie @gdelagasnerie]

Alors que la droite et l’extrême-droite viennent de voter une nouvelle Loi Duplomb au mépris des avis des scientifiques sur les risques pour la santé publique, il faut reflechir à des transformations institutionnelles pour empêcher de telles catastrophes de se reproduire.

[Evonomics.com @EvonomicsMag]

Archive pick from Anthropologist David Graeber: "If someone had designed a work regime perfectly suited to maintaining the power of finance capital, it’s hard to see how they could have done a better job. Real, productive workers are relentlessly squeezed and exploited. The remainder are divided between a terrorised stratum of the – universally reviled – unemployed and a larger stratum who are basically paid to do nothing, in positions designed to make them identify with the perspectives and sensibilities of the ruling class (managers, administrators, etc) – and particularly its financial avatars – but, at the same time, foster a simmering resentment against anyone whose work has clear and undeniable social value. Clearly, the system was never consciously designed. It emerged from almost a century of trial and error. But it is the only explanation for why, despite our technological capacities, we are not all working 3-4 hour days."
Read more: https://t.co/5YvM2L6PzC

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

“Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits”. (Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter 9, “Of the profits of stock”)

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

My today's (somewhat incendiary) Substack:
Don’t ask me about my profits, but let’s talk about your wages
How Western capitalists use China-bashing to deflect attention from their soaring profits
https://t.co/NPoryFO8ZM

[ONU Info @ONUinfo]

Logement : plus de 3 milliards de personnes n’ont toujours pas de toit convenable, prévient l’ONU

@UNHABITAT

https://t.co/0HaNcw4KSk

[Dr. Serge Zaka (Dr. Zarge) @SergeZaka]

[1/5] Nous vivons potentiellement un cygne noir statistique : les canicules de 2026 dépassent largement tout ce que les observations météorologiques françaises avaient enregistré jusqu'ici, sortant largement de la variabilité connue.
L’Europe de l’ouest en a connu un majeur : le cygne noir de 1540 avec une conjonction de canicules & sécheresse (graphique de Pfister, Wanner 2021).

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

The health of Hussam Abu Safiya, a paediatrician who has been held by Israeli authorities for 18 months over unsubstantiated allegations of ties to Hamas, is rapidly deteriorating
https://t.co/IHPkeqgeUJ