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by kanduri 4y ago
>Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert That explains why this industry gets USD 6 trillion of publicly paid subsidies from governments. Source: https://www.theguardia
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'CEOs, Not Working People, Are Causing Inflation': Report Shows Soaring Exec Pay(commondreams.org)
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Crypto Can’t Build a Better Internet(jacobin.com)
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by kanduri 4y ago
Quotes from the article: > For all its utopian trappings, web3 tech like cryptocurrency only deepens the problem of elite control over the internet. We have an alternative. > The promise of web3 is a promise to re-create the inequalit
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by kanduri 4y ago
It is an electoral autocracy. Merely having elections doesn't make it "democratic". Certainly not if much of mainstream media is under the ownership of the biggest "donors" of the current ruling disposition. Alterna
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by kanduri 4y ago
Money came from global trade. That trade could be possible there because the pre-Deng governments prepared a very skilled workforce. In order to have usable skills, one needs to be fed, clothed, educated, in relatively good health, housed a
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by kanduri 4y ago
The government guaranteed access to the basics to the masses. It made money via the market liberalization policies. I was talking about how governments using their budgets for inclusive policies can have a much more impactful role in povert
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by kanduri 4y ago
75% of global poverty reduction has been due to China lifting over 800 million people. The real number is even higher if you account for Vietnam, Laos and Cuba. Then there are also many nations that don't classify themselves explicitly