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Tag Archives: Adam Smith
Of Course Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
By HipCrime Vocab There’s apparently a row over whether billionaires should exist. That is, whether or not billionaires should be a thing in our society. What a stupid question. Of course billionaires shouldn’t exist! But the reason has nothing to do with … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, History, Inequality, Oligarchy, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Adam Smith, Amazon, Aristocracy, Bill Gates, Billionaires, capitalism, Classical Liberals, economic inequality, Economics, Great Britain, John D. Rockefeller, Libertarianism, market failure, Matt Stoller, Millionaires, Monopolies, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Socialism, technology, Wealth Concentration
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Luddism and Economic Ideology
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Smithsonian Magazine has a very good feature on the Luddites, well worth a read. There are many elements you just don’t read in many economic histories; for example, the 40-hour work week was not brought down … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, media, Neoliberalism, propaganda, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Technology, Work
Tagged 40 Hour Work Week, 5 Day Workweek, Adam Smith, automation, capitalism, Chris Dillow, economic inequality, Economics, Economism, James Kwak, Kirkpatrick Sale, Labor, London, Luddism, Luddites, Neoclassical Economics, Rebels Against the Future, Revolution, Robots, technology, Wealth Gap, Wealth of Nations, Work
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I think therefore I am capital
By Jamie Goldrick Source: Adbusters In the worldview of the Cree, life is lived along a trail of experiences. Sharing experience with others is a result of the crossing of two life trails. Life is experienced as a tangled pattern … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Environment, History, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged Adam Smith, Animism, Anthropology, Capital, capitalism, Commodification, Cree, culture, environment, nature, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Progress, society, spirituality, technology, Value
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The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy
By Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges Source: CounterPunch CHRIS HEDGES: We’re going to be discussing a great Ponzi scheme that not only defines not only the U.S. but the global economy, how we got there and where we’re going. And with me … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, Social Control, society, war
Tagged 1%, 99%, Adam Smith, Chris Hedges, Classical Economics, Debt, Financial Parasites, GDP, Goldman Sachs, Gross National Product, Junk Economics, Marx, Michael Hudson, military-industrial complex, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, wall street, war
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No Man’s Land
By Steven Stoll Source: Orion Magazine A chainlink fence topped with razor wire surrounds fourteen acres of thistle and grass at East Forty-First Street between Long Beach Avenue and South Alameda Street in Los Angeles. These two city blocks occupy … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, Environment, History, Philosophy, Social Control, society
Tagged Adam Smith, capitalism, Commodification, Conservation, Economics, Enclosure, Endangered Species Act, ESA, Feudalism, Freedom, Friedrich Hayek, Ownership, Private Property, Property, Real Estate, South Central Farm, The Homestead Act
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Life in the Algorithm
By Douglas Haddow Source: Adbusters The searches we make, the news we read, the dates we go on, the advertisements we see, the products we buy and the music we listen to. The stock market. The surveillance society. The police … Continue reading
Posted in civil liberties, conditioning, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Philosophy, propaganda, Recession, Science, Social Control, society, surveillance state, Technology
Tagged Adam Smith, Adbusters, Algorithms, Catallactics, Catallaxy, Douglas Haddow, Economics, Friedrich Hayek, Life in the Algorithm, Neoliberalism, Paul Samuelson, The Invisible Hand, The Wealth of Nations
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