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This is why I read @pluralistic He's so good at succinctly summing up important high-level concepts and then connecting them with the current problems we face.
#capitalism #wealth #oligarchy
Piketty shows that this holds true across markets and nations and eras: all other things being equal, the market system produces a class of hereditary aristocrats who command the world's capital and direct its deployment, despite never having done anything. The market's most lavish rewards do not go to its most productive participants, but rather, to those participants who have the good fortune to emerge from the luckiest of orifices.
#Capitalism #oligarchy #wealth @Cory Doctorow

#oligarchy #fascism #democracy

It's no longer simply right vs left. It's powerful billionaires against everyone else.

#surveillance #corruption #oligarchy

Eliot Higgins

2026-08-10 17:50:14

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Reform donor Arron Banks urged to set out extent of surveillance of journalists www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reform donor Arron Banks urged...


Reform donor Arron Banks urged to set out extent of surveillance of journalists

Industry body says use of private investigators against reporters is ‘attack on our democracy’ after Banks apparently admitted doing so
Daniel Boffey (the Guardian)

#surveillance #Corruption #oligarchy

Taxpayers pay the oilmen to make wildfires
Taxpayers pay the costs of the wildfires

Taxpayers pay the oilmen to make droughts
Taxpayers pay the costs of the droughts

Taxpayers pay the oilmen to make orphan wells
Taxpayers pay the costs of orphan well cleanup

Taxpayers pay the oilmen to flood the land and water with toxic tailings
Taxpayers will pay the costs of tailings lakes cleanup

Taxpayers getting deeper and deeper in debt
Oilmen making record profits

environmentaldefence.ca/2026/0…

#Oligarchy #Corporatism #Climate #Petro #Canada #CdnPoli

Canadian government steps in as ‘out of control’ wildfires force thousands to flee British Columbia battling 102 fires day and night across province, as breakneck speed hampers firefighters’ efforts Sun 9 Aug 2026 19.20 BST
For Immediate Release: August 06, 2026 Fossil fuel lobbying skyrockets in first year of PM Carney'’s government Environmental Defence's latest analysis of the federal Lobby Registry shows Big Oil has unprecedented access to the federal government. Ottawa | Traditional, unceded land of the Algonquin ishinaabeg People - New analysis from Environmental Defence shows that Big Oil lobbyists had 1318 meetings with Prime Minister Carney’s government during the first year of the administration. “Since becoming Prime Minister, Mark Carney has taken a wrecking ball to the country’s climate progress. And it’s no wonder, given that fossil fuel lobbyists have been given unprecedented access to hd government,” said Julia Levin,

Fossil fuel lobbying skyrockets in first year of PM Carney’s government - Environmental Defence

Environmental Defence’s latest analysis of the federal Lobby Registry shows Big Oil has unprecedented access to the federal government.  Ottawa |
Midhat Moini (Environmental Defence)
#canada #climate #oligarchy #corporatism #cdnpoli #Petro

#Reddit #europe #EU #canada #Corruption #oligarchy #Albania #meidastouch #epsteinClass

Take some time and read, "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams and this makes perfect sense. Completely fits with Zuckerberg's sociopathy and self-centeredness, not to mention surrounding himself with yes-men and women who fear him. Typical oligarch asshole, and what's wrong with the world.

#Zuckerberg #Sociopath #EatTheRich #oligarchy #CarelessPeople #Villian

#oligarchy #zuckerberg #EatTheRich #Sociopath #villian #carelesspeople

#DonaldTrump #Corruption #oligarchy #CitizensUnited #americanoligarchs

#cartoon #comic #Economy #oligarchy #billionaires #economicinequality

From the same article:

- The richest 130,000 Americans and their immediate families now own as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent — 117 million — combined.

- The three richest Americans own as much as the entire bottom half of the population.

- The only other country with similarly high levels of wealth concentration is Russia.

- Unlike income or wealth, power is a zero-sum game. The more of it at the top, the less of it anywhere else

#Democracy #Oligarchy

#oligarchy #democracy

#Economy #Inflation #oligarchy #affordability #Drumpf #kcurve #ccurve @Aaron Rupar

#science #Education #Economy #Environment #Corruption #oligarchy #disinformation #trumpvirus #warcrimes #injustice #sedition #Jan6 #coverup #plutocracy #GQP #criminality #weaponization #emoluments #hormuz #TrumpEpsteinFiles

”…during Trump’s inauguration last year, behind him was a line of Who’s Who of Big Tech CEOs… And he has obviously, so far, been generously repaying their patronage.”
—Whitney Webb
#trump #oligarchy #bigtech
#bigtech #Trump #oligarchy

”…the intelligence community, as well as the military and other major aspects of the federal government, contract extensively with these same big tech companies and are arguably largely dependent on them. While at the same time, a lot of these big tech oligarchs are major donors to our politicians.”
—Whitney Webb
#usa #bigtech #oligarchy
#USA #bigtech #oligarchy

#Photography #oligarchy

Forget the ‘politics of joy’. Australians are rightfully getting angry

The Point
#auspol #oligarchy #CostOfLivingCrisis #amyremeikis #wagedrop #laborgovt #neoliberalismfailsmostofus

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