Capitalism has trained us to think that the only real work is what is done in official employment where you make profit for a company. It ignores so much outside unpaid labor that is socially beneficial
Die Grünen wollen 2 % Vermögensteuer ab 500 Mio. €! 💰
Betroffen wären nur rund 570 Menschen gerade einmal 0,0007 % der Bevölkerung.
Erwartete Mehreinnahmen für den Bund: ca. 20 Mrd. €.
There’s a reason why right wingers always try to destroy the arts, literature, and any field that elevates human empathy over personal profit. Without these things, we cannot be a free or thriving society.
They’re sanding off the edges of everything that enriches us as humans. If it doesn’t generate profit immediately it is deemed unworthy of financial support. Another step towards fascism
we need more liberal arts students, not less. we wonder why everyone is getting dumber. we wonder why no one can read. we wonder why everyone lacks critical thinking skills. it’s because higher education is completely inaccessible
God, they always go for the arts and humanities and I’m so fucking tired. All you guys see is money, all you care about is profit and gain and power. We need more artists, musicians, writers, dancers. We need more educators, therapists, philosophers-people who UNDERSTAND people.
A sure sign of a fossil fuel lobby group linked account is when they claim wind turbines damage the countryside while ignoring that fossil fuels absolutely annihilate it.
America has the technology to track every dollar of welfare spending but can't track billions in Pentagon budgets. Accountability is for the poor. Opacity is for defense contractors. Surveillance is selective. It only looks down, never up.
🌎 In much of the world, the most powerful in society are NOT held criminally accountable when they are responsible for acts of mass environmental destruction.
That needs to change.
Earth needs a new law - #EcocideLaw.
Learn more HERE: https://t.co/JRC57LNPM0
#StopEcocide
GDP goes up as the #bullshitjobs "economy" wastes more resources and energy than ever.
GDP goes up as the #bullshitjobs "economy" impoverishes and bakes the whole world.
But we call it "economic growth" and pretend that an increase of GDP is good for us.
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