1989
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15 loonies equal minimum wage here.
I drink your milkshake! a metaphor for capitalism
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yea i dont know how it works out when you factor in healthcare, taxes, housing, etc.
1989
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Here, minimum wage is $11.50 an hour. After taxes about $10. You can get free healthcare and subsidized housing.
rent is real bad in this city so it could be better where you are.
1989
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Lifestyle in the city is real bad. Why do you want to live there?
i live in this city bc i was born here and not good enough to leave this country yet, and i have an average middle class job here, and theres some stuff to do although its no justification for the housing prices.
UK heading in a socialist direction
Jeremy CorbynVerified account @jeremycorbyn 7h7 hours ago
Productivity lags behind other countries, pay has fallen and job insecurity has risen. Simply, the current system isn't working except for the privileged few. @UKLabour will start to turn this around by making businesses reserve a third of board seats for workers. #Lab18
Jeremy CorbynVerified account @jeremycorbyn 7h7 hours ago
Productivity lags behind other countries, pay has fallen and job insecurity has risen. Simply, the current system isn't working except for the privileged few. @UKLabour will start to turn this around by making businesses reserve a third of board seats for workers. #Lab18
Jeremy CorbynVerified account @jeremycorbyn 7h7 hours ago
Workers on boards will give staff a real say in the running of their companies. We will transform our broken economic model and help rebuild Britain for the many, not the few. #Lab18
Workers on boards will give staff a real say in the running of their companies. We will transform our broken economic model and help rebuild Britain for the many, not the few. #Lab18
americans practiced a different socialist kind of economics in the 1930s. 1.3 million americans did it.
What History Books Left Out About Depression Era Co-ops
It all worked on a time-credit system. Each hour worked earned a hundred points; there was no hierarchy of skills, and all work paid the same. Members could use credits to buy food and other items at the commissary—medical and dental services, haircuts, and more. A council of some 45 coordinators met regularly to solve problems and discuss opportunities.
One coordinator might report that a saw needed a new motor. Another knew of a motor, but the owner wanted a piano in return. A third member knew of a piano that was available. And on and on. It was an amalgam of enterprise and cooperation—the flexibility and hustle of the market, but without the encoded greed of the corporation or the stifling bureaucracy of the state. The economics texts don’t really have a name for it. The members called it a “reciprocal economy.”
What History Books Left Out About Depression Era Co-ops
It all worked on a time-credit system. Each hour worked earned a hundred points; there was no hierarchy of skills, and all work paid the same. Members could use credits to buy food and other items at the commissary—medical and dental services, haircuts, and more. A council of some 45 coordinators met regularly to solve problems and discuss opportunities.
One coordinator might report that a saw needed a new motor. Another knew of a motor, but the owner wanted a piano in return. A third member knew of a piano that was available. And on and on. It was an amalgam of enterprise and cooperation—the flexibility and hustle of the market, but without the encoded greed of the corporation or the stifling bureaucracy of the state. The economics texts don’t really have a name for it. The members called it a “reciprocal economy.”
american life expectancy also starting to resemble Russia when the soviet union collapsed in the 1990s.
Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff 11h11 hours ago
Something else that did NOT recover after the capitalist crash of 2008: Americans have many fewer children (4.8 million fewer than demographers expected based on 2007 trends). Cant afford them? Their prospects too grim? Young people too depressed, worried?
Richard D. WolffVerified account @profwolff 11h11 hours ago
Something else that did NOT recover after the capitalist crash of 2008: Americans have many fewer children (4.8 million fewer than demographers expected based on 2007 trends). Cant afford them? Their prospects too grim? Young people too depressed, worried?
Brian SchatzVerified account @brianschatz 11h11 hours ago
Having dudes in charge of literally everything is not working at all for anyone except those dudes.
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Having dudes in charge of literally everything is not working at all for anyone except those dudes.
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Babagounj
Strength through joy
Is that the cost to see the crap he produces ?
And he's in trouble , his latest " work " is a box office bust.
wasnt it limited release?
uhh no he said its the cost to fly across the country to see a dying relative.
french flirted with ending capitalism and having worker run jobs:
May 1968 events in France - Wikipedia
"These strikes were not led by the union movement; on the contrary, the CGT tried to contain this spontaneous outbreak of militancy by channeling it into a struggle for higher wages and other economic demands. Workers put forward a broader, more political and more radical agenda, demanding the ousting of the government and President de Gaulle and attempting, in some cases, to run their factories."
May 1968 events in France - Wikipedia
"These strikes were not led by the union movement; on the contrary, the CGT tried to contain this spontaneous outbreak of militancy by channeling it into a struggle for higher wages and other economic demands. Workers put forward a broader, more political and more radical agenda, demanding the ousting of the government and President de Gaulle and attempting, in some cases, to run their factories."
David Adams @onethinline 15h15 hours ago
Love to read a book on the causes of anxiety and depression, which ends up at worker co-ops as one of the solutions (cc @BlackSocialists)
Love to read a book on the causes of anxiety and depression, which ends up at worker co-ops as one of the solutions (cc @BlackSocialists)
debt bomb!
debt is a good means of social control
Wim Grommen @wimgrommen 1h1 hour ago
Replying to @TheBubbleBubble @AkinOyedele
Economy America is booming ! O sorry, it is the wrong graph.
debt is a good means of social control
Wim Grommen @wimgrommen 1h1 hour ago
Replying to @TheBubbleBubble @AkinOyedele
Economy America is booming ! O sorry, it is the wrong graph.
Equitable Growth @equitablegrowth 1h1 hour ago
"Our economy is growing, but that growth is being distribute unevenly, and many Americans are being left out. That inequality is hampering upward mobility for a large share of everyday Americans.” - @hboushey Read her full testimony https://equitablegrowth.org/testimony-by-heather-boushey-before-the-joint-economic-committee/ …
"Our economy is growing, but that growth is being distribute unevenly, and many Americans are being left out. That inequality is hampering upward mobility for a large share of everyday Americans.” - @hboushey Read her full testimony https://equitablegrowth.org/testimony-by-heather-boushey-before-the-joint-economic-committee/ …
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