Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 10/05/2025Imagine what could happen if society's goal was to make life better for everyone, if the goal was to avoid universal suffering, 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The wealthiest individuals are directly responsible for most of the global warming. Politicians have an undeniable moral responsibility to impose regulation and taxes on the rich. The tax revenue should be used to address climate injustice and economic inequality. 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 05/05/2025We need to heavily regulate and tax the billionaire class! It's the only thing they're afraid of and the only survival chance for the rest of the world. "the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating" 010
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Europe Could Lose What Makes It Great — [Foreign Affairs](www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/europ...) Will Europe stay strong or cave in to the extortionist demands of Trump? 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 16/04/2025"To satisfy the Lockean Proviso, asset-based wealth should be as open to any ‘levy’ as labour-based income." Private wealth is no longer justifiable without a levy that would redistribute a big part of it as a Citizen's Dividend or a UBI. (It would also avoid fascist dictatorships.) 0156
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Trump is a narcissist and doesn't know what a tarrif or trade deficit is. "In every interaction, no matter how trivial or insignificant, someone has to win and someone has to lose. And Trump, as we all know, is a winner." He thinks that deficits are a loss and tarrifs are fees paid to the U.S. 010
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 12/04/2025David Graeber: "To save the world, we're going to have to stop working" He proposes 3 things, "for starters": 1. Eliminate pointless jobs (work) 2. Stop building for the sake of building (construction) 3. Force companies to make products that last (planned obsolescence) 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 11/04/2025And they're not done yet. Billionaires want still more wealth. They want EVERYTHING! "Billionaires now hold more wealth than 99% of ALL countries. That means, according to Oxfam figures, just 3,000 people (the 0.000036%) have more wealth than 99% of the planet – around eight billion people." 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This cartoon was from 2020! A lot of people voted for more of this. But we shouldn't blame them. The class war is real. We should unite against the billionaire class. 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 10/04/2025A UBI may have just become the quickest and most effective tool to fight fascism and avoid another world war. "if we want to avoid the catastrophic outcome of globalization’s first collapse [WW I], [...] we need to address one of the fundamental byproducts of globalization, which is inequality" 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 07/04/2025We need a better definition of "work". Doing someone else's work by renting out your labor is "employment". Achieving your own life goals by creative means is "work". Yet people are coerced into employment by an outdated value system. An UBI would break this self made prison. 3227
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 03/04/2025As a human species we need to learn to be active in other ways than merely economic productivity. A UBI can help achieve that. "The damage at 3C will be so great that governments will be unable to provide financial bailouts and it will be impossible to adapt to many climate impacts" 075
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 02/04/2025So at least 59% of the population should welcome a form of universal basic income so they can meaningfully participate in society instead of living paycheck to paycheck. It's become more urgent than ever! "America Has Never Been Wealthier. Here’s Why It Doesn’t Feel That Way." —Talmon Joseph Smith 2307
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Even the end of the world is big business "A 3 degree warming scenario, the analysts determined, could more than double the growth rate of the $235 billion cooling market every year, from 3 percent to 7 percent until 2030." — Corbin Hiar & E&E News 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025We now witness in the US the beginning of Gestapo style public abductions in broad daylight, as part of what Ernst Fraenkel described in his 1940 book "The Dual State" as the "prerogative state", where ordinary law doesn't apply. 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025"For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t." — Aziz Huq 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Signal having end-to-end encryption is a moot point when you're on a consumer device that can monitor your keystrokes before sending and actually harvests your personal data as a business model. High profile phones could even be infected with Israeli spyware Pegasus. Hegseth's position is untenable. 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 26/03/2025"A country without an independent judiciary is not one in which any of us should want to live, except perhaps Mr. Trump while he resides in the White House." —J. Michael Luttig www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/o... 001
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Trump’s Self-Inflicted Economic Wounds — Josh Bivens "None of these negative economic consequences were necessary, or even easy to make happen. It required a series of significant economic policy mistakes to make this scenario come to pass." time.com/7269516/trum... 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 19/03/2025"At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all." inthesetimes.com/article/mahm... 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 18/03/2025'The policy’s real message is “Tax my voters; enrich my donors.”' www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 16/03/2025"Trump is trying to reorder the international monetary system to the US benefit, but so far his actions signal that his understanding of it is sophomoric at best." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202... 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 15/03/2025“climate protection will only be possible if we abolish capitalism” asiatimes.com/2025/03/the-... 000
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 15/03/2025"As early as 2016, Sam Altman, who had recently co-founded OpenAI, wrote in a blog post that “as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs,” new economic models might be necessary, such as a universal basic income;" www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 010
Chris @cdek.bsky.social · 14/03/2025"Spite describes a situation in which we act to harm another person – even at a cost to ourselves." asiatimes.com/2025/03/what... 000
