#Labor

Silvia Secchi

ProfSecchi

Part and parcel of the US disfunction is the Jeffersonian agrarian ideal. It is based on erasing land theft and slavery while making farmers a special category worthy of praise

James Newburrie

DifficultNerd

Can we briefly discuss the core flaw in MMT? Under MMT you merge the central bank with the treasury - effectively removing independence of the reserve bank and putting it

dork phoenix🌹

uhshanti

voter guides and PACs and gobs of money from capitalists who steal labor value can get you far, but organizing, coalition-building, canvassing & activating people gets you farther. it’s slower

Mark Paul

MarkVinPaul

Everyone in the West Wing should instead read this @Groundwork paper which puts people at the center of the economy in estimating how much stimulus is needed. Our finding? The

Riff Raff

RichardAOB

Okay fine. I'm "rusted on". I'm rusted on to the idea that 2 of my kids who are finishing highschool in the next 3 years having the opportunity to go

adriarchy

just_adria

"eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" is bullshit kinda and not just bc ghandi was terrible.like. humans are empathetic, we feel for people based on our own

Rahul Tongia

DrTongia

THIS is India's biggest challenge. Farming. The issue isn't growing enough food, it's 𝘃𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴.#FarmersProtests are a manifestati

Opium Tales (Povești de Opiu) 🇺🇸

romanopiumtales

Trump went after Facebook for hiring foreign nationals over AmericansHe found that Facebook wasn’t even offering these jobs to AmericansNow you see why Big Tech hates him? I’ve been saying

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

This whole attitude of the northern & “blue” states being inherently superior to the south is steeped in anti-Blackness & ignorance. I’ve lived in both. Racism was everywhere & a

Wakandan Brand Ambassador

Kennymack1971

*stares in Jesse Owens and Jackie Robinson*https://twitter.com/politicalelle/status/1304217363181600768 The "I don't want politics in my sports" and the "shut up and dribble" crowd are definitely the people who would

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: January 5, 1914. Henry Ford announced his famous $5 a day wage to his workers. But let's be clear; Ford was a horrible human who

𝔻𝕒𝕣ℚ𝕝𝕪🇺🇸🇬🇧👊🏻

IlluminateDark8

“HOW I MANAGE MY SLAVES”; Alexander Warbucks, September 6, 1978[THREAD] RT #WWG1WGA An Economic ClassicIf you wish to keep slaves, you must have all kinds of guards. The cheapest

Public Defendering, Esq.

fodderyfodder

Hey, you— the internalized idea that slavery ended shortly after the Civil War is FALSE. Slavery existed well into the 20th century just under a different name. In effect, slavery

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today's @bopinion post is about technology and inequality.Many people just sort of assume that new technology will exacerbate inequality. But what if it does the opposite?https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-09/we-may-be

donnie

donniemnemonic

In the past 3 days since sharing a story of one woman's abuse at Weta Workshop on Facebook, three separate people who've worked there in the past have messaged me

May Peterson, Eldritch Monstergirl (she/her)

maidensblade

I’m seeing tweets that use language like “trans men aren’t The Oppressor Class,” implying that an attribution of “privilege” erases someone’s oppression, and I want to remind everyone of how

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