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7·2 days agoDefund highways yesterday, and let’s build free public transit everywhere, but she’s right that regressive taxes aren’t the way to win the world we want. A wealth tax (or inheritance tax, or financial transactions tax, etc) would be far preferable. To miss that and adopt policies that exacerbate the cost of living crisis (even when they serve good goals) is to fail to understand the Yellow Vest protests and their lessons entirely.
41·6 days ago2 truths and a lie…the deep ecology movement and the Unabomber would seem to undermine your third claim
3·7 days agoHamilton Nolan has made a similar argument
Not sure the problem is your sister, as much as it is your conflating the fediverse with Lemmy. As others have mentioned, the appropriate response here seems to be a link to Pixelfed rather than frustration at someone using social media differently than you. You wouldn’t try to force an IG user to join Reddit if that’s not their thing.
6·12 days agoRevenue is distributed proportionally as a percentage of revenue based on streams relative to other artists, not per stream
Why not instead have public and/or worker ownership of stocks, as the Meidner plan proposed, or in the form of a Social Wealth Fund as Matt Bruenig at the People’s Policy Project has suggested? This give people both democratic control and socializes the profits. As long as we have corporations, having them owned either by the public or by their workers (in the form of cooperatives) seems like the way to go.
20·26 days agoFirst, they make the proceedings private: there’s no public record of the proceedings or verdict, and even if you win there’s no precedent that others can use. The for-profit nature of the arbitrator (much or even most of whose business comes from corporate clients) represents a conflict of interest.
Second, they isolate the plaintiff: you can’t sue as part of a class action, so no lawyer can represent a group of similarly wronged people in exchange for a percentage of any verdict. This means you have to pay for your own lawyer, which many people can’t afford to do and even if you can it may not be worth it if the damage is small enough.
Together, these issues massively favor business and employers that include these clauses in contracts, as reflected in both win rates for corporations as well the number of cases brought against them versus in open court.
5·27 days agoDon’t feel like enforcing a law Congress passed? Just hit pause!
43·1 month agoGreat example of what Cory Doctorow calls the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve:
If you want to do something terrible with technology, you can’t just roll it out on people with money and social capital. They’ll complain and your idea will tank. Successful shitty tech rollouts start with people you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege gradient.
61·2 months agoTell me you didn’t even read the lede that directly ties it into the class war without telling me
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Attacking Trump from the right is a losing battle. Fuck war and fuck memes that glorify conscription.
7·2 months agoMaybe the paywall had something to do with it?
4·2 months agoKind underscores the lack of it, no?
A disability joke that attacks Abbott from the right. Stay classy, friend.