@anothercohen yea, let’s just actually shoot them. you have a run down piece of property you likely forgot about that is sheltering a human being. shooting them seems to be the best way to handle
Fed: We want more inflation
Markets: But then there might be more inflation
Fed: Yes
Markets: So you’ll be raising rates soon?
Fed: No, we want more inflation
Markets: But then there might be more inflation.
Fed: Yes
Markets: You’ll be raising rates soon.
We can't support local businesses if people living locally don't have the disposable income necessary to be customers at their local businesses. Universal basic income is a requirement not only for moral reasons of ending poverty, but for economic reasons of enabling consumption.
@dykeista Y'all's cynicism isn't helping you or anyone achieve political power. You're literally just religating yourselves to a Twitter bubble of discontent, oversimplified worldviews, and petty complaints about the imperfection of politics and society.
Interesting slide showing the difference between the public beliefs and movement beliefs in the UK from the #framingclimatejustice project carried out with @350 and @pircuk
The presence of charities in society is not a sign of a healthy society. It's a sign of a society that is failing its members. Charities should be rare and focused on those few falling through universal systems, not common and utilized as a replacement for our missing foundation.
David Graeber's brilliant pamphlet "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology" had a big impact on me when I was a postgraduate student. The publisher has made it available for free download here: https://t.co/IMgQy2XukJ
"There’s no better way to justify relations founded on violence, to make such relations seem moral, than by reframing them in the language of debt – above all, because it immediately makes it seem that it’s the victim who’s doing something wrong."
--David Graeber
My heart is utterly broken over the news that my good friend and comrade David Graeber has passed away. It is impossible to process this... it seems completely unreal. There is simultaneously too much to say and no words, but let me attempt a few:
1/4 "Over 1,200 documents that discuss the UBI/employment relationship have been reviewed... we have not found any evidence of a significant reduction in labour supply; instead we found evidence that labour supply increases globally among adults, men and women, young and old..."
I only trust rule-breakers. People who always follow rules (legal, religious, other) have abrogated their moral judgment to other people or to an institution.
A photo of a New Orleans home and a family's belongings littering the corner of the street in front of it went viral Tuesday.
The caption read: "New Orleans, the eviction cairns have returned." Activists say it's part of a growing wave.
https://t.co/3gOnLcfHp2