Taxing the ultra-rich is *very effective* climate policy. -- @greenprofgreen.bsky.social

Huh you can just do that???? Financial Times: "China has launched a global hunt for hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes going back decades as Beijing seeks to fill a deepening fiscal hole by targeting the ultra rich." www.ft.com/content/e179...

China launches global tax hunt going back decades

Fiscal pressure sparks retroactive campaign and tougher controls on future offshore capital flows

ft.com

Imo koskee myös siirtolaisuutta & järkevyyden&taloudellisuuden lisäksi: ekologisuus&ilmasto dekolonialismi⬆️&länsikeskeisyys⬇️ &riistokapitalismi⬇️ terveen yhteiskunta- &globaalirakenteiden, demokratian &yksilöiden&yhteisöjen sosiaalis-poliittis-psykolog.suht⬆️ Rawlsin oikeudenmukais.teor. eettisyys yms

Tomi Nyman@tominyman.bsky.social · 16h ago

Olisi järkevämpää ja halvempaa luoda pakolaisille töitä, ruokaa ja mukavat elinolot kotimaassaan

threatening people with a good time here

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 19h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Unequivocally yes. I don’t use any of that now and this guy didn’t use any of that only a couple years ago. If AI disappeared tomorrow the only thing I would notice is that search doesn’t suck as much and Adobe would stop asking you to summarize every fucking pdf I open.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 19h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

Big Tech thereby sets the discourse by curating which narratives get told and in what language. Even criticism has to take the form of "AI ethics" to be taken seriously, meaning that more radical criticisms miss their audience. 3/6

Sharing without reading (same thing has been shown from other literatures) bcause important what comes to finances, oil, supply chance, global systems, food security &sovereignity. And continuation of exctraction of Africa, with oil kingdoms exploiters just slightly shifting, core still benefitting

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d ago

FT: UAE's imperial push into Africa UAE is now a bigger investor in Africa than China,UK,France,US! UAE's dark king MBZ is supporting/extracting from african actors (particularly in north africa) with investments in logistics, gold, copper, arms, farming www.ft.com/content/a4c6...

Because he is first & foremost in the serve of capital & capitalist, business & ruling elite and class, and for himself & his family, his class, and party. All being the same. Wealth & power accumulation & consentration, whatever is in different times & situations needed for those.

AmyF67@amyf67.bsky.social · 3d ago

Miksi Stubb toimi näin? Kansa haluaa tietää vastauksen.

We also assessed countries individually. We found that 67-76% of peripheral countries had slower growth rates than the core over the assessed period, indicating increased relative inequality.

The vast majority of the periphery is *not* moving into the core. On the contrary, the share of the world population living in the periphery has increased from 80% to 86%. The core has become an increasingly exclusive faction of the world economy.

These results support the insights of world-systems scholars who have long argued that broad-based convergence is unlikely to occur within the existing structure of the capitalist world economy.

Real development in the South requires gaining sovereign control over resources and production, using state-led industrial policy - that much is clear...

...But in most cases, this will have to be implemented *against* the will of the core states, and therefore requires some kind of "delinking" from imperial power

Note that relative inequality reached its greatest extreme around 2000, and some improvement was achieved thereafter, albeit generally stalling in the 2010s.

In many cases, the US and its allies allowed these "new core" countries to use state-led industrial policy for development - an approach that was denied to the rest of the periphery. The East Asian "tigers" are a clear example. The final line by Amartya Sen here is a banger:

Not📝mainpoint,but"The far right stands ready to provide organised vehicles for channelling public anger and disillusionment - but far right institutions are not disciplined and organised. In Brit[..] they rely too heavily on corrupt financial elites for the maintenance of their power and influence."

Ann Pettifor@annpettifor.bsky.social · 2d ago

Our leaders are deaf to public fear and anger. open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...

Instead of posting all 6 parts, just saying good 🧵

Tim Christiaens@timchristiaens.bsky.social · 2d ago

In part 4 of my chapter-by-chapter summary of Cecilia Rikap's The Rulers, we look into how Big Tech uses knowledge predation to subordinate other organizations to their business model. Rikap focuses more specifically on the subjugation of universities to Big Tech. 1/6

Author @georgemonbiot.bsky.social: "Their massive tax cuts for the rich, crushing of trade unions, reduction in public housing, deregulation, privatisation, outsourcing and competition in public services were all proposed by Hayek and his disciples." Read more: evonomics.com/ruthless-net...

His opinion is deeply racist and evil. It's also the opinion of every Israel supporter, and of mainstream news outlets like the BBC. That's why Jews getting killed always receives massive international attention, while the same number of Palestinians killed barely causes a blip.

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · 5d ago

"One Jewish life is worth ten million Palestinian lives."

I think it also revealed just how quickly a bunch of otherwise very hard problems can be to solve with global collective action. The fuckin Ganga was running clear water for the only time in my lifetime because for 2 weeks nobody threw garbage in it. The canals in Venice had fish.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Someone asked this black man about Elvis one time and it didn't go well at all.

Chantal James@chantalalive.blacksky.app · 4d ago

All I’m saying is don’t ask Black folks how we feel about Elvis. Black folks how we feel about him?

And gather data about us that they can use for mass corporate surveillance. Such companies derive their power to extract rent from the economy by embeddung themselves into the social infrastructure. They then become “incontournable”, as the French would say. 5/6

Intellectual monopolies use their concentrations of intangible capital to leverage chokepoints in the global economy and foster paniopticon effects. Put briefly, they leverage their key role in the economy to pressure consumers, governments, and consumers to accept their terms and conditions … 4/6

Put briefly, intellectual monopolies are organizations that capture economic rents from concentrations of intangible capital. But what is intangible capital? We often imagine capital to be money or tangible goods, like buildings and machines. But capital is also immaterial goods like knowledge. 2/6

Today I’m summarizing chapter 1 of Cecilia Rikap’s The Rulers. The book discusses corporate power today with chapter 1 focusing on what an ‘intellectual monopoly’ is. 1/6

Every 5 part in this 🧵 needs to be shared, but instead one should just read them all start to finish.

Joni Askola@joniaskola.bsky.social · 6d ago

1/5 Elon Musk claiming money will not matter in ten years is one of the most dishonest distraction tactics ever deployed by an oligarch. Preaching a pseudo-communist fairytale where AI eliminates economic scarcity, he sounds like a utopian communist, except he keeps all capital in his own hands

✋ Sudanese person here... and even we don't want this bullshit. Keep our names out of your mouths. It's disingenuous and frankly, none of the ppl doing whataboutism have been helpful AT ALL in doing anything to support Sudanese people n the long movement towards a civilian government.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.

Just wondering, where all the “say it’s a genocide” folks have been when it comes to Sudan and Myanmar?

Also why I have problems with liberals, one could say almost all kind of variations of it. Here is the picture of only one version or image.

Esa Salminen@juigejuige.bsky.social · 6d ago

meillä on tälläinen arvopohjainen realisti.

"The request to demilitarise and deradicalise Gaza... in the name of Israels security. Where is the security of the Palestinians, who have been attacked without respite for decades... where is the demilitarisation & deradicalisation of Israels society?" Francesca Albanese last year🎯