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  • CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay

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  • Neoliberal economists are liberal economists. It's literally in the name.

  • CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay

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  • Yes, the mask is fully off. So, again, won't state power be needed to reign these people in?

  • CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay

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  • The people at the top are just not competing as would be required to make an open and free market work.

    Which seems to be an inevitability, unless state power is used to force the people at the top to play by the rules. But don't most liberals consider that authoritarianism? It seems to me whenever something like that is mentioned, there is much hand wringing and clutching of pearls at the thought of such big government overreach.

  • CEO pay soared in 2025, 20 times faster than workers’ pay

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  • Liberal economists will say this is perfectly fine. They'll say The Market™ has decided and it's never wrong.

  • In conversation: Dave Murphy and Tom Murphy – if modernity can’t last forever, what comes next?

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  • Something better is theoretically possible. Modernity can be replaced by a paradigm of human well being and sustainability. Theoretically. But whether or not that will happen is another matter.

    If it is to happen, the first thing we need to avoid is the pitfall of many theorists: creating a perfect world in our imagination and then trying to make the real world fit that image. We do not live in a theoretical reality, we live a material reality, and the limits and confines of material reality must be respected. We need to let material reality dictate what is possible, not try to impose our vision on the real world. If we try to fight the real world, the real world will win every time.

    Second, we can't let perfect be the enemy of good enough. Perfection is an unattainable standard. If we set out to attain perfection, we will fail. Imperfect solutions that work are better than perfect solutions that don't.

    Third, We need to be willing and able to learn as we go. We will not start out with all the answers. We can't be inflexible.

    I think this is a start. I don't think a top down approach will work. I don't think we can just fix everything by electing different people into the existing national governments. New systems have to be built, from the ground up. I think the best place to start is where we live. Not the nation that we live in, but the city, the town, the community. We focus too much on governments that are hundreds or thousands of miles away from us, and we don't focus nearly enough on the governments where we live and work and spend most of our lives. Maybe some will find it beneficial to start new communities or towns. Either way, we should start where we live.

  • Vote for people who want to help, not those who want to line their pockets

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  • Liberals gonna lib.

  • Suspected gunman at Washington press dinner identified as 31-year-old Californian

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  • Not exactly John Wick, is he.

  • Trump safe after being rushed from White House correspondents dinner as attendees take cover

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  • Trump safe

    That's unfortunate.

  • Trump says 'shooter apprehended' after president rushed from White House Correspondents' Dinner

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  • I'm gonna buy a bottle of nice champagne for the day when Trump finally kicks it.

  • 'Disgusting': Red state cop fired after ‘abhorrent’ racist rant goes viral

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  • Racism is so stupid. I'm not even talking about the immorality of it, but just the fact that it's complete bunk. Race isn't a thing. Ethnicity is a thing, and we often use the two words interchangeably, but they're not the same. Race is a pseudoscientific concept that has no basis in reality. You could argue that there is an ethnic group in the US called 'White' or an ethnic group called 'Black,' but the idea that all people who have a similarly low level of melanin in their skin are a single race, or that all people who have a relatively high level of melanin in their skin are a single race, is straight up nonsense.

  • US gambling addiction is ‘out of control’ as betting markets boom, policy expert warns

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  • Late stage capitalism runs on addiction.

  • The Spaceship We're Already On with Tom Murphy & DJ White

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  • It's so true. Rather than find ways for humanity to sustainably thrive on Earth - the only human habitable planet known to exist in the universe - the techno- optimists would rather use up our precious nonrenewable resources trying to live out their interplanetary colonization fantasies, on worlds that are not only inhospitable to human life, but actively, aggressively hostile to it.

    They want to guide humanity to what they believe to be our teleological final evolutionary form (which is not how evolution works!), as some god-like, intergalactic mega civilization. It goes beyond delusion. It's a complete inability to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

    They constantly complain that the future portrayed in 20th century movies and TV shows never arrived, but they're too thick to realize that's because those futures were never possible. They're unmoored from reality and we're all paying the price.

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    Why is Greg, Pastor of the Promised End playing guitar???

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  • Complete with fold down basketball hoops.

  • ‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare, report finds

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  • I want to wake up from this neoliberal nightmare.

  • Fat of the Land Crab [@jakearmy_]

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  • Is that crab a fire starta?

  • Who owns America’s $39T debt (2026)

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  • So we owe $4.4 trillion US dollars to the institution that -checks notes- literally creates US dollars. Interesting.

  • 'The Batman Part II' Adds 'Game Of Thrones' Star Charles Dance To Cast

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  • He'll always be Sardo Numspa to me.

  • 'The Batman Part II' Adds 'Game Of Thrones' Star Charles Dance To Cast

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  • ‘It’s kind of a tough situation’: US Catholics torn in feud between president and the pope

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  • “If you’re an American, you don’t want to see your president having a feud with the pope,” said Taylor Marshall, an outspoken Catholic conservative with a considerable YouTube following. “And if you’re Catholic, it’s kind of hard. If you voted for Trump three times and you want to be a Catholic and you want to be faithful and submit to the Holy Father, the bishop of Rome, the pope, the vicar of Christ, it’s kind of a tough situation to see the leader of your nation feuding with the leader on Earth of the Catholic church. It is for me.”

    These people need to be isolated and studied, because what the fuck.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Canada PM's Speech at the WEF

  • No Man's Sky @lemmy.world
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    I love the new Corvettes, but they kind of break the game

  • Political Videos @lemmy.world
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    Zionism and Regime Change

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    Analysis: The fertility crisis is here and it will permanently alter the economy | CNN Business

    www.cnn.com /2024/06/25/investing/premarket-stocks-trading/index.html
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    Removing a sticker without any glue left

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    This handwriting ???

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