ajmadesc

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by ajmadesc 6y ago
Thisis a baseless claim. Personal experience doesn't count. The overwhelming majority of history education leaves out inconvenient truth of vile and anti democratic acts committed in the name of American Capital interests.
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
Prison is about what the majority of an electorate think it's about... The sad thing is, _you_ and lots of other compassionate people _think_ prison is about rehabilitation while The majority of the American electorate think it's
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
What is freedom? What is society? Why does society owe you freedom?
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
I want to disagree but this actually makes perfect sense...
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
Cantillion effect
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
This guy slightly missed the mark. The clerical class have evolved into the management class. Their religion is supply side macroeconomics. If you like N. Taleb's fooled by randomness the book "confronting managerialism" by L
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
I didn't say nobody is allowed to have more. I 100% agree that people who _move production and efficiency forward_ should be allowed to allocate more capital! Where I imagine we disagree is about what counts as productive
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
Too bad _most_ wealth isn't the fruit of labor but extracted rents and 'what they want' is to preserve those rents in inflated non-productive financial instruments.
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
If you built smaller houses, people would buy them. Debt and Speculative ownership is are too cheap
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
I can imagine a world where hacking that phone which 'isn't your property' is illegal and not worth the risk. Capital runs the gov bruv
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
80-90% of journalism is either fluff or capital propaganda. It's crass but youtuber friendlyjordies shows how terrible the aussie press is on a weekly basis In the UK the royal family is put on the front page the same day the home sec
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
I support and agree with your sentiment. Western countries are to blame, but _Biomass should not count as renewable_ It is not carbon neutral. Monocultures requires petrol based inputs (and petrol reliant for output), and store less than ha
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Journalism is a joke.
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
Being bought isn't failing, it's falling prey to global financialization
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
The economic orthodoxy believes that consolidation > efficiency > reduced prices > consumer benefit > societal benefit No amount of empirical evidence to the contrary will disuade them because you don't understand the _scie
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
Yes, I agree. Being the world's uncontested hegemonic power hasn't economically benefited the United States at all. /s
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
You're the best dang!
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
It's different when you 1. own the largest market 2. Own the world reserve currency 3. Have a means of charging exit taxes
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
_Most_ capital is not put at "risk".
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
Wealth tax has nothing to do with markets and Nobody whants to tax the level of wealth for an ordinary retire silly. That's a straw man. The American capital, legal, and tax structure collude to reduce wages, whereas the Dutch system i
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
I think you can do even better if you reduce the intervals
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
Queue the Doctor / Lawyer married couple with 2.5 kids who vacation twice a year, lease German cars, and have positive net worth crying about 'only being middle class'.
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
It doesn't say it doesn't not do it not somewhat
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
The problem with people who think like this is you forget that economics is not a science. Economics exists inside of politics. What happens time and time again if the working class has it too rough in a country with a sizable 'aristoc
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
This is nuts and absolutely _sadistic_. We live in an age of such overwhelming surplus there is no need for anyone to work multiple jobs. Have a read into the physical and mental effects of poverty, especially on children. Edit: also povert
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
American lobbying practices are criminal offences that would land you with corruption charges in Europe.
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
National public radio?
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Interlocking directorate
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
No such thing as a cop that hasn't looked the other way. Even for the ones that don't like It's just 'too risky'.
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by ajmadesc 6y ago
I mean, WHO tried to convince people that cov19 wasn't transmissible through the air for a couple months, and they accepted fake infection /death numbers from CCP no?

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