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This was predicted in the 90s in the book the Sovereign Individual, it just took a a couple decades for the Information Age to have the information easily available. The printing press was the last time we had huge changes in easy access to education/knowledge. The church lost so much power ever since the printing press was invented, the internet and information age has further damaged the perceived infallibility of large organizations that acquired power long ago.
With a $20 phone people can now learn and communicate information at a rate that we never thought possible.
They predicted things like cyber money and nationalism itself crumbling while politicians increase the big brother attempts. Its playing out remarkably accurate for a book written so long ago.
https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720/
Or just Chomsky's essays on Vietnam, widely available for free online.
The US were the aggressors in a war of imperialism at first to maintain French colonial control of Indochina and then excused their Holocaust of Vietnamese civilians and combatants defending their homeland from bombs and genocide and torture with unverified notions of "domino theory" as part of a larger ideological war repeatedly used to excuse imperialism, torture, surveillance, genocide, repression, and domestic wealth disparity.
They engaged in widespread, consistent carpet-bombing, torture, repression, chemical and biological warfare, environmental destruction, Roman Plowing, and massacre on the people of South Vietnam. They installed a puppet regime and eliminated democracy and purged dissidents and civilians alike. They marched through destroyed villages and massacred the survivors after bombing them with millions of tonnes of bombs, far greater in a few years, than all the bombs dropped during WWII. Their environmental destruction is still devastating and lead to widespread famine and starvation and poverty.
Some reliable historians estimate 2 million Vietnamese died, or some figures have it at 1.5M. A great, great many were civilians and the combatants were defending their homeland against these atrocities, so they were also innocent. The war accomplished nothing but a communist victory in Vietnam and the US repeatedly broke their own peace agreements concluding the war. They pushed Vietnam into systemic, long-lasting poverty thereafter. The only thing the war accomplished was widespread suffering.
>More specifically, it's Disney lobbying very hard
Yes but lets not mince words here, there has been many times the government has been able to protect the public interest but didn't.
Our governments do not work like we think they do because we've been mis-educated.
Manufacturing consent:
https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499/
Public attitudes are shaped and driven by the media. If the public doesn't care, it's because we've spent years conditioning them not to care. If the public in general can't name many middle eastern cultures beyond "Muslim", that is very much the fault of the media.
If prominent newspapers started giving front page headlines to the plight of the Kurds, you'd certainly see a considerable public reaction, but right now the cycle is dominated by the anti-communist Hong-Kong protest coverage because it serves an agenda for the United States. Kurds being killed because the American government made the decision to abandon them? That's a bad look on America and the media won't give it nearly as much attention. See Manufacturing Consent on this dynamic.
Because despite what we're all told, there really isn't such a thing as an unskilled job. There was a bestseller ten years ago Nickel and Dimed where the author set aside her graduate degree, job history, and finances to try and start with nothing and get by.
One of her experiences was that even the most unskilled jobs take skill.
Insert Hoppe and his argument about monarchy, that politicians have "i need to loot now, during my term" mindset, while king doesn't since he's permanent. https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Economics-Politics-Perspectives-Democratic/dp/0765808684
Holy crap its real:
>Are multi-national corporations laying the groundwork for international socialism?
>For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the the ultimate expressions of free market competition. Their remarkable success vindicates the old idea that our modern societies are too large, too complex and difficult, to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, late capitalism already operates by central planning. The sheer economic weight of multinational, corporate giants means that the decision making of its owners decides the fate of virtually everyone else downstream of them, shaping the fortunes of much of the world. Not only is planning possible, we already have it. Except all the power is concentrated in the hands of a selfish few.
>Against the dictatorship of capital, The People's Republic of Walmart is a clarion call for a return to collective decision making in all matters economic. With the rise of new computational systems and new capacities for massive, collective enterprises, democratically organizing the economic in the interest of human need rather than in the interests of profit is as great as it ever has been.
>About the Author
>Leigh Philips is a science writer and EU affairs journalist. He is the author of Austerity Ecology & the Collapse-Porn Addicts.
>Michal Rozworski is a Toronto-based union researcher and writer. He blogs at Political Eh-conomy and has been published in Jacobin, Ricochet, The Toronto Star, and Briarpatch Magazine.
Doesn't look that bad.....
If you havent already read it I would recommend Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich. The book is a little dated, but it does a really good job of explaining why its so hard for poor Americans to escape poverty. The idea of the book is that Ehrenreich works a series of minimum wage jobs undercover to learn about the trials and tribulations of the working poor. Its a fantastic book and is a really good starting place for learning more about the working poor.
I think the term is Imperialistic Warmongering.
Source: Shock Doctrine
Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds. Neoliberal foreign policy is one of torture, of both the people and the economy. Would you like to know more?
I really really recommend reading Manufacturing Consent to anyone who hasn't. Its as relevant today as when it was written. One of its focuses is on New York Times: https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499 or however the heck you read books. I don't think Noam would give a crap if you pirate it.
Actually don't need to be tech-savvy, just economic-savvy(and if you're in this sub without knowing basic economics, you get McNuked :3).
Bitcoin mining can use various types of hardware to mine(including Graphic Processing Units/GPUs, such as the GTX 1080s in the OP).
Thus, demand for GPUs has increased. What happens to prices when demand increases?
That is why OP is butthurt about Bitcoin.
^(or the shortages in case there wasn't a price increase)
You should get your relative a copy of "the people's republic of Walmart", which dismisses the capitalist myth of the so-called "inefficiency" of centralised planned economies. It turns out not only can computers anticipate supply/demand curves, but already do it all the time and are the reason why corporate juggernauts like Walmart, a private economy unto itself that's about the size of Sweden's entire national economy, can function.
https://i.redd.it/rtkgeknpljl21.jpg This is from the father of the guy that leads the NRG the shithole that invented Brexit. Why don't people understand that people like JRM, Farage, Murdoch and Trump are narcissists or straight psychopath. I still don't get it why people don't see their dead eyes. They are a real danger, they orgenize via internet, and behind closed doors and want to rule the world, and its sadly no joke or conspirecy. What do you think Putin is doing? Read whats above and you know what he does. https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720
Prof. Chomsky literally co-wrote the book on how the media is used by the ruling class to get the public to buy into the establishment narrative.
Give this book a read. https://www.amazon.com/Manufacturing-Consent-Political-Economy-Media/dp/0375714499
> The net is that the article isn’t really about DC or the protesters, but rather to raise awareness about the reliability of video as a medium and how we should be critical consumers in this viral video age.
And take it one step further, with a sprinkling of Chomsky salt: the media has an agenda and they will do their best to exploit cherrypicking of video, text, audio, etc. to tell their own narrative. Viral videos are certainly dangerous since there's no level of editorial oversight. But even editors at large corporate media see their "wall" between content and business broken down to spin stories a certain way. The most common tool is "lie by omission" since it technically isn't lying or dirty. In fact, it's even similar to the original Lincoln Memorial video.
edit: I realize a book isn't the most accessible source for /r/neutralnews, but the wikipedia article does a decent enough job summarizing the main topics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
Read Naomi Kleins book on the subject. It is a serious eye opener.
https://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0312427999
Short version here
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/06/naomi-klein-how-power-profits-from-disaster
Fuck off. Its a prosperous government for corporate interests and the wealthy, not the people. Which is exactly how neoliberal economies are designed to function (thanks Milton Friedman). Don't even talk about "converting through violence" after what Pinochet (with American help I might add) did to socialists and any nominally leftist people; thousands tortured and disappeared after a coup against a DEMOCRATICALLY elected socialist government under Salvadore Allende. You do some fucking research you lying ghoul.
You bring up a solid point, however you're falling into the just world fallacy. Not everyone that can't put together a 1000 dollars 'deserved' it. My guess is that at least 50% of that 63% number are hardworking americans working multiple jobs that simply can't break out of the paycheck to paycheck trap. The cost of living has been outpacing pay for 30 years.
I agree that some people simply don't budget properly or are miss appropriating or aren't using their time to get skills etc. but that's simply not the entire story at all
There's a good book on this called Nickeled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich.
This is not coming from a bleeding heart liberal either. I'm a libertarian that wants to see welfare reduced but that doesn't mean there aren't some serious problems with the economy right now.
There was an amazing book called Nickel and Dimed that discussed this. Basically a decently well-off woman took a bunch of minimum wage jobs to see what it was like to live off minimum wage. She wrote about how difficult it was to make ends meet and how hard she worked, but in the back of her mind she always knew this was temporary. She'd signed up for this "experience" and at then end of it she'd go back to her easier life. It helped her mentally push through a lot of the bullshit she had to deal with, and she said she couldn't imagine how terrifying and exhausting life would be for someone who didn't have her fallback.
I think you will be surprised to learn that what you have come to understand about neoliberalism and the positions supported by this sub are not always in alignment.
Make sure to read <em>Why Nations Fail</em>. Your first book report is due in two weeks.
I'm just gonna add some extra resources for this idea:
Short article
Yes, a Planned Economy Can Actually Work
Bigger book
Just be mindful that both are from Jacobin, it's a good source that can be a little problematic sometimes.
Both Economics in One Lesson and Basic Economics are golden, though for very different reasons.
Economics is One Lesson starts with a truth that is obvious and simple once you hear it explained. You think to yourself, "Well, yeah. Who could possibly think otherwise?" And then you hop onto Reddit and see that a substantial preponderance of Reddit are afflicted with a mindset and beliefs that fly in the face of this simple truth. It then spends time expanding on this truth and applying it to tons of different things that you wouldn't intuitively see it applying to.
Basic Economics is better though. Both are well worth reading, but Sowell's work is incredibly comprehensive. When I read it, it didn't come across as someone trying to prove any world view, as tends to be the case from so many economists. It is him simply seeking to explain economics to someone who is new to the field. To his credit, he uses terminology that is accessible to anyone and doesn't spend a single moment trying to prove to how smart he is. (Though his brilliance is immediately evident.) Its most important quality is that it doesn't ask you to partake in a string of thought experiments to reach some grand conclusions. Every assertion he makes is supported by multiple studies and historical examples. This happens time and time again. And the bolder the claim, the more evidence he provides. It's remarkable.
While it does weigh in at 700-ish pages, Basic Economics is almost certainly the perfect book for getting your feet wet when in economics.
Jacob Rees-Mogg's dad Lord William Rees-Mogg wrote a book about it - ie about how to move your money off shore, not pay taxes, participate in the weakening of one's nation state by de-funding it, and profit on the demise of one's nation state. The book is the Sovereign Individual. Alistair Campbell has written about this matter.
It does look like to the majority of the left, but that's not the case. If you have an example, I can do my best to explain the stance (whether or not I agree with it). But, I will say that a lot of regulation that intends to protect the poor from the rich actually ends up being counter-productive. The goals of a regulation are often very different from the incentives it creates. The best example of that, I think, is rent control. The goals of rent control are very noble, but the perverse incentives it creates actually end up greatly reducing the amount and quality of available low-income housing. Thomas Sowell goes into in the book I'm reading, which I think you can read on the Amazon page w/o needing Prime or to buy a copy. If you click the "Look Inside" button above the image of the cover, you should be able to get to the section on Price Controls. The first in-depth section is on rent control. Ya know, if you're interested. It's a dry subject, but I think Sowell does a great job of making it understandable to those of that aren't economists.
Also, and I'm not saying you're definitely making this mistake, but a mistake a ton of people make is that they think the economy and wealth are zero-sum. The far-left subs (r/LateStageCapitalism etc) routinely misunderstand how net worth is calculated and what it actually means.
This is not a dumb though at all. The Sovereign Individual, 1997 goes through these ideas when the internet started to gain traction. Companies like Paypal have been inspired by this book (co-founder Peter Thiel especially). Although the technology wasn't ready back then people were inspired to automate as much as possible and remove the government's monopoly on violence. Arguably, people will start to behave more & more like political actors. I recommend reading the book. IgniteDAO has also been inspired by this idea. To be the first legal DAO in The Netherlands also hopefully should give us an edge with the government.
https://i.redd.it/rtkgeknpljl21.jpg This is from the father of the guy that leads the ERG the shithole that invented Brexit. Why don't people understand that people like JRM, Farage, Murdoch, and Trump are narcissists or straight psychopath. I still don't get it why people don't see their dead eyes. They are a real danger, they orgenize via internet, and behind closed doors and want to rule the world, and its sadly no joke or conspirecy. What do you think Putin is doing? Read whats above and you know what he does. Trump is a wannebe part of this network like McConnell and Tucker. Putin, the Arabfamilies, UK elites, US big Money work together. https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Individual-Mastering-Transition-Information/dp/0684832720 And plz don't buy the Book just wanted to show its in the open. So this nice guy is a MP of the UK parlaiment and he is an evil person. He wants cheap shoes and food for the workers, so he and his nazibrothers can revel in riches. He should explain why he gets money from russia, that little prick.
The disaster capitalism book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sovereign-Individual-James-Dale-Davidson/dp/0684832720
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>But in today's political landscape party lines just don't cut it any more - people are more single issue than that. We need a form of proportional representation in the future, otherwise our political system will continue to be paralysed for years to come.
Great point.
Well, work, make things better. Optimize system.
give my best to make something useful to other people(in my case, through my software company(I'm entrepreneur), mostly) optimize systems (such as this one). I love this things.
The most effective thing the rich has ever done is manipulate the middle class into thinking that poverty is the poor man’s fault. Meanwhile, people have actually lived, tested, and then lived it again.
Spoiler alert: The middle class are brainwashed as hell into thinking they know what happens to the poor.