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The #WealthGap isn’t just growing - it’s exploding. Wages stagnate while profits soar.

A few billionaires control more wealth than all the other people combined - and with that, billionaires control politics and who is in government!

#UBI doesn’t “punish success” - it ensures #everyone has a chance to succeed. Because no one should have to beg for basic survival in the richest era in history.

A cooperative organization isn't a panacea. American cooperatives are filled with members who've compartmentalized coop method within their dominant paradigm of neoliberalism, short-sighted, self-seeking, self-serving, hyper-individualistic, class competitive and capable of predating upon their own.

REI Punished Unionized Workers in Berkeley by Holding Back Raises, Labor Board Alleges
#Culture #Politics #Coop #Economics #Cooperative #EconomicJustice
kqed.org/news/12032259/rei-pun

KQED · REI Punished Unionized Workers in Berkeley by Holding Back Raises, Labor Board AllegesVon Farida Jhabvala Romero

John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman, has a little contact form on his website mediated by goddamn Squarespace. But I still used it to write to him to ask, "Don't you think the obvious thing is for the left to unite internationally and leverage mass labor and economic power to insist on the institution of a real Global Surplus Recycling Mechanism at the IMF and World Bank now, like John Keynes originally proposed at Bretton Woods?"

Quickly, and apparently without much thought, he replied that the IMF and World Bank were dictatorial and not worth our focus in confronting the rise of fascism. BUT THE POINT IS THAT WE USE THE ONLY LEVERAGE WE HAVE AS THE POOR AND WORKING CLASS MASSES TO DEMAND A TRANSFORMATION OF THE TOP DICTATORSHIP SO THAT THERE IS NO LONGER A TOP DICTATORSHIP, AND INSTEAD, A FUNCTIONAL, TRANSPARENT, PUBLIC UNION OF EQUALS THANKS TO FAIR, EGALITARIAN SURPLUS REGULTION, WHICH HAS STILL NOT BEEN TRIED.

DOES NO ONE UNDERSTAND ME?!

Labour's message to the rich: "We won’t touch your wealth."
Labour's message to the poor: "We need to tighten our belts."
Labour's message to workers: "Suck it up."
This is not the party of labour. It’s austerity in a red tie.
#Labour #PolicyDirection #LabourBetrayal #DisabilityRights #LabourIdeals #PolicyShift #EconomicJustice
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Medium · Labour’s Betrayal - Julian Dimitrov - MediumVon Julian Dimitrov

The economy is supposedly doing well, but your #paycheck isn’t. #Billionaires add millions to their wealth every day, but you’re told to “just work harder.”

What if the problem isn’t you? What if the #system is designed to keep people struggling? What if billionaires and corporations were taxed the same way you are?

#UBI shifts the balance. It gives power back to #people instead of #corporations

A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

   In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
   The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.
   The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
   The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.
   The fourth is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world.
   That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
Speech (1941-01-06) to Congress, Annual Message (State of the Union), “Four Freedoms,” Washington, D. C.

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

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