NEW: Truckers used to make $100K+ per year. Now many drivers are homeless.
So what happened?
Trucking was deregulated — letting billionaires and big box stores like Walmart crush workers across an entire industry.
how poverty and violence are necessitated by capitalism to keep the working class down preventing them from pushing forward a revolution. 'im a Virgo' ep 7 directed and written by Boots Riley
Rising corporate profits were the largest contributor to Europe’s inflation over the past two years as companies increased prices by more than the spiking costs of imported energy. https://t.co/iEf6Emu0Rp
We literally already did this. We did it almost a century ago. In only two years, we retrofitted thousands of acres of available suburban and urban space into small-scale agricultural production, replacing 40% of all household produce consumption nationwide. We can do it again.
@uzumakigallery Yes but also Strong advocate for early tumblr over here tho. Customizability of myspace but the search/explore was fantastic. So much great art. Also and very related the greatest record of regular human sexuality probably ever, it's such a shame it got wiped.
re-guns:
*WE* disarm or no one disarms.
By which I mean if the police and national guard and standing army get guns then so do we. You want disarmament then disarm. Until such a time....
So impractical 83% of Dutch neighbourhoods (green dots) are classed 15 min cities, at most a 4km cycle ride to supermarket/chemists/other amenities. It's not impractical, you are simply defending a lack of political will.