www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Ways to address the food crisis -
1. Minimize red meat #consumption, especially, #beef
2. Allow #fertility rates to fall and focus on #redistribution of existing #food to feed the #poor
#books #booksky #climatechange #adaptation #solarpunk #hopepunk #novel
Do We Need Another Green Revol...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/do-we-need-another-green-revolution
Ways to address the food crisis -
1. Minimize red meat #consumption, especially, #beef
2. Allow #fertility rates to fall and focus on #redistribution of existing #food to feed the #poor
3. Since working in #farms will soon be impossible thanks to #heatwaves #droughts #floods #pests ; build enclosed #vertical farms and #precision #fermentation
All three ideas are incorporated in #solarpunk #hopepunk #novel "A New Faith"
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...
#idiot #thiel - it is not stagnation since end of #ww2 - but #redistribution of #opportunity #wealth #health that the #world has been doing. Long overdue!
Opinion | Peter Thiel and the ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/opinion/peter-thiel-antichrist-ross-douthat.html
#idiot #thiel - it is not stagnation since end of #ww2 - but #redistribution of #opportunity #wealth #health that the #world has been doing. Long overdue! End of #colonialism #slavery in various parts. #equality for all #gender #race #religion #caste #class etc. Even before it achieves good quality of life for all, the #plutocracy hit back with rising #inequality. THAT is the problem.
Is exploitation good? Check out the full episode here: podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/n... #Globalisation #Capitalism #Multinationals #Corporations #Tax #FreeTrade #Economics #Ethics #Morality #Fairness #Justice #Activism #Redistribution
This picture is an absurdly good example of the difference between acceptable and unacceptable levels of wealth accumulation. One can realistically use all of the house on the left, especially with family there. On the right, we see a gigantic waste of space, resources and money, the majority of which will likely rarely be touched by anyone save the cleaners.
(Pic taken from Reddit)
"This is the largest #redistribution from poor to rich in #American history."
We should be very worried. #polish presidential #election 1st round has shown that right wing, #eu skeptics, & extreme social conservatives outnumber centrists & leftists!
Now is the time to exercise your civic power, to give hope to #poland. A potential future leader of the EU, only if we elect a centrist or leftist #president of Poland!
I’m so proud that I could vote for Magda Biejat, an incredible woman who spoke against #genocide, for wealth #redistribution and an #equitable future!
La @LDH_Fr appelle à rejoindre les rassemblements en ce #1erMai, journée internationale de lutte pour les #Droits des travailleuses et des travailleurs, partout en France.
En Sarthe, retrouvons-nous :
Au Mans, 10h- Jacobins
À Sablé-sur-Sarthe, 10h- mairie
À La Flèche, 10h30- promenade Foch
À La Ferté-Bernard, 10h30- gare
Exigeons de véritables réponses aux attentes émancipatrices de la population, pour la coopération (nationale et internationale) face aux #ExtrêmesDroites et ses politiques construites sur la loi du plus fort, pour répondre aux besoins de #Redistribution des richesses au sein de chaque pays et avec des #Solidarités mondiales.
Fairness Across the World https://openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/bitstream/handle/11250/3184837/DP%2006.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
"… the meritocratic #fairness view is not universally accepted, and plays only a marginal role in many countries, especially outside of the Western world.
… #meritocracy is particularly prominent in richer countries
… people’s belief about the source of #inequality is crucial for whether they consider inequality in their society to be fair, but we also establish that these beliefs are particularly important in countries where people endorse the meritocratic fairness views
… It appears plausible that the meritocratic fairness view is conducive to economic #growth
… cross-country differences in #redistribution through taxes and transfers also are associated with differences in fairness views, with more redistribution in countries with a higher share of meritocrats, which highlights the importance of incorporating #heterogeneity in both fairness preferences and beliefs when studying the political economy of redistribution
… people’s view on redistribution is primarily driven by fairness considerations, the perception that inequality in their country is unfair, rather than #efficiency considerations"
#ExperimentalEcon
Artificial Intelligence, the Collapse of Consumer Society, and Oligarchy https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17682&r=&r=ain
"The pace of progress in artificial intelligence has resurrected worries about the end of work. Some people call for an egalitarian society based on universal basic income, while others think regulation should curb the use of #AI.
… While, in partial equilibrium, they would benefit from AI as replacement of the knowledge workers they need to operate their business, in general equilibrium massive use of AI might be self defeating because it would lead to a collapse of the middle class of #skilledWorkers and therefore of the market base for mass produced goods.
… If influence depends on the number of agents exerting influence ("one person, one vote"), AI will prevail and be supplemented with #UBI, provided fiscal capacity is large enough to fund for such UBI. If fiscal capacity does not allow for enough #redistribution, then the #oligarchy may want to curb AI so as to maintain a high enough demand for skilled workers, so as to preserve the market base for mass produced goods.
… If influence is chiefly driven by monetary contributions ("one dollar, one vote"), AI is likely to prevail and no UBI will be implemented, because producers of necessities, who do not value the existence of a large middle class, will outbid producers of more sophisticated goods in the competition to obtain one’s most preferred outcome.… "
#economics
Good explainer on the effects of the 2017 Trump tax cuts.
Spoiler alert: They hurt the overall economy.
#economics #redistribution #oligarchy #democracy #kleptocracy #kakistocracy
"Une profonde réorientation des politiques #antitrust, inspirée par des représentants de l’école de Chicago comme Richard Posner ou Robert Bork. Auteurs en 1978 respectivement de Antitrust Law : an Economical Perspective et de The Antitrust Paradox, ils argumentent que la concentration et les fusions de grandes entreprises bénéficient aux consommateurs. Ils réussissent à imposer la doctrine du « bien-être du consommateur » (consumer welfare), selon laquelle les monopoles et les grandes fusions sont légitimes tant que les entreprises concernées peuvent argumenter qu’elles se traduiront par des baisses de prix. C’est le début d’une grande vague de concentrations, alimentée par le boom des marchés financiers, qui se poursuit encore aujourd’hui. Aux États-Unis et bientôt en Europe, les autorités de concurrence approuvent sans trop sourciller tous les projets de fusion qui leur sont présentés et se préoccupent surtout de faire la chasse aux aides d’État et aux monopoles publics. Symbole de ce changement d’époque : Exxon et Mobil, les deux principaux héritiers de la Standard Oil, refusionnent en 1999 avec la bénédiction du président Bill Clinton. En 2005, cinq des sept entreprises issues du démantèlement de AT&T en 1982 sont à nouveau regroupées, et reprennent le nom de AT&T. Deux autres s’unissent pour former son principal concurrent, Verizon.
"Ce n’est qu’avec l’essor du numérique que la lutte contre les monopoles revient finalement sur le devant de la scène. Dès les années 1990, la législation antitrust est utilisée pour forcer Microsoft à renoncer en partie à sa stratégie consistant à profiter de la position dominante de son système d’exploitation Windows pour contrôler également le marché des logiciels et notamment de la navigation sur le web."
Extrait du livre collectif co-dirigé par @OlivPetitjean #ObservatoireDesMultinationales et @IvanDuRoy #Basta : https://multinationales.org/fr/enquetes/multinationales-une-histoire-du-monde-contemporain/trust-et-antitrust-une-guerre-de-cent-ans-toujours-en-cours
#TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate
#USpol
#Tariffs #Economics
(2/n)
...#redistribution, "trickling up", of wealth, and power(!), to the #TechnoFeudalists 1) and #oligarchs
b) a massive weaking of #US influence globally, as #tRump alienates its closed allies, e.g. #NATO and #Canada/ #Mexico, continuously showing how unreliable the #US are as a partner.
c) a further reduction in product and service quality (#Shrinkflation,) as....
有象友整理记录了事件起因
https://wxw.moe/@jigsaw/113883868081191355
真的很讨厌把事实和个人情感黏着在一起，把个人期望当作现实、然后诉诸人文表达来歪曲事实
这整件事里：
1. #RSS 索引在版权法上完全站得住脚，不需要任何「互联网精神」辩护
2. #搜索引擎 经过无数判例也明确地符合版权法，它只索引不是 #再分发（#redistribution）；索引确实要缓存内容，但没有再分发就不侵犯版权，访问者点了搜索结果还是得去原始链接页面访问；robots.txt只是个「君子协定」并不代表授权声明没有法律效力
3. #被遗忘权 是真的，作者有权要求搜索引擎删除，如果对方拒绝那确实可以骂也可以告
4. 扣帽子不对、用「极端女权」骂人也不对，这些都应当单拎出来批判，但这和RSS索引本身合法性无关，对方骂人不对不代表对方索引违法，两件事没有逻辑关系
5. 法律是最低共识，要么认可法律、接受版权法的保护同时接受其规定的豁免；要么不认可法律豁免同时也别期望版权法保护。有理拍律书无理拍桌子东食西宿cherry picking的论述手段很没道理，想靠巧言令色让自己的一厢情愿成为新共识令人不齿
"Mr McDonnell said Ms #Reeves should accept the need for a wealth tax to tackle “the grotesque inequality that we have within our society — 16 million living in poverty, and yet at the same time, we’ve now created in our society 165 billionaires.”
“And on the last calculation I saw, in the two years from 2020 to 2022, they made an additional £150 billion of wealth,”
“I think you have to look at #redistribution.”
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ministers-warned-to-stop-the-rush-to-political-suicide
Underrated view of #socialSecurity in both major #US political parties:
Via @profgalloway “...people that need [it] ...should get it. But for a lot of people, it's an upgrade from Carnival Cruises to Crystal. ...the upper quartile of seniors ...shouldn't get it.”
His argument for this view starts around 7:19 on @preetbharara's #podcast from April 2024:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stay-tuned-with-preet/id1265845136?i=1000653888802&r=542
