Inequality skyrocketed across the world starting in 1980 when Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher came into power, drilled it into public consciousness that the Government inefficient and corrupt and that the only solution is “free market” economics.
F1: Most promiscuous countries in 2005.
F2: Countries engaging in the most unprotected sex in 2005.
F3: HIV prevalence by country in 2005.
F4: Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa in 2005.
In the 1990s, South Africa was “opened up” to the “global financial system,” promising to pull millions of Black people out of poverty. Instead, the new economic measures massively benefited Boer institutions like Capitec while plunging Black people deeper into suffering🧵
In this video thread, Economics Professor Robin Hahnel gives a lecture on how the modern economy works.
1/8. Free market economics claims to be the best economic system humans can ever come up with.
John F. Clauser, the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum mechanics, has decided to sign the World Climate Declaration of Clintel with its central message “There is no climate emergency...This holds regardless of whether you believe in a large or small contribution of CO2 to the warming in the past 150 years."
Clauser is the second Nobel Laureate to sign the declaration, Dr. Ivar Giaever was the first.
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Saying the Government is running out of money is like saying the ocean is running out of water.
No one knows what it means, but it's provocative...it gets the people going!
In Luxembourg, citizens who lose their jobs are paid up to 94% of what they were earning.
Norway: 88%
Finland: 85%
Bulgaria: 77%
Portugal: 75%
Germany: 75%
Switzerland: 74%
Netherlands: 70%
France: 72%
United States: varies by location but can be as low as 27% in some states.
Most of the above countries provide the unemployment benefit along with social assistance and housing benefits.
The rates mentioned are applicable to a single person without children and the rate varies depending on family structure and are paid for a minimum of 12 months and up to 4 years in some countries.
Germany needs 50GW of electricity for its needs.
Germany has 150GW of renewable energy installed.
Germany has power shortages.
Germany is proof that renewables are idiotic.
The United States alone consumes 5 times more electricity than the entire African continent.
The US also emits 4 times more CO2 than all of Africa combined.
Yet, they're discussing emissions in Kenya. What are they even talking about?