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Tag Archives: Labor
‘Deaths of despair’ soaring among Gen Z & millennials: ‘It’s the economy, stupid’
By Helen Buyniski Source: RT.com Young Americans are killing themselves in record numbers, the victims of a confluence of economic and sociological factors that have singled them out – even above a nationwide surge in so-called “deaths of despair.” Suicide … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Financial Crisis, Health, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged addiction, Alcohol, America, Baby Boomers, culture, deaths of despair., depression, drugs, Economics, Education, financial crisis, Generation Z, Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, Labor, military spending, millennials, opioids, Pharmaceuticals, Poverty, recession, Social Media, society, Sociology, Student Debt, Student Loans, suicide, The American Dream, unemployment, war, Work
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Jeff Bezos’s Corporate Takeover of Our Lives
How Amazon’s relentless pursuit of profit is squeezing us all—and what we can do about it By David Dayen Source: In These Times AMAZON IS AN ONLINE RETAILER. It also runs a marketplace for other online retailers. It’s also a shipper … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, surveillance state, Technology, Work
Tagged AI, Alexa, Alienation, Amazon, big data, CIA, Cloud Computing, Corporate Lobbyists, Dystopia, e-commerce, Economics, financial crisis, Jeff Bezos, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Precariat, Retail Apocalypse, Small Business, Social Isolation, Technocracy, technology, Worker's Rights
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A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
By Clifton Mark Source: Aeon ‘We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else …’ Barack Obama, inaugural address, 2013 ‘We must … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, elites, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Bill Gates, Discrimination, Economics, Failure, Gratitude, Labor, Luck, Meritocracy, Neuroscience, Privilege, psychology, Robert Frank, Selfishness, Skill, Success, Work
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The Erosion of the Middle Class — Why Americans Are Working Harder and Earning Less
By John Liberty Source: The Mind Unleashed “I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel’s worth, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Housing Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Oligarchy, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, Work
Tagged American Dream, Corporations, economic inequality, Economics, elites, financial crisis, healthcare, Income Disparity, Labor, Middle Class, Minimum Wage, Poverty, Power, recession, Wage Stagnation, Wages, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Gap, Welfare
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What Are We Working For? The Economic System is a Labyrinthine Trap
By Edward Curtin Source: Global Research One also knows from his letters that nothing appeared more sacred to Van Gogh than work.” – John Berger, “Vincent Van Gogh,” Portraits Ever since I was a young boy, I have wondered why people … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, Authoritarianism, culture, Economics, elites, Film, Inequality, Labor, media, Oligarchy, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged activism, Art, At Eternity’s Gate, Consciousness, culture, Economic system, Economics, elites, Labor, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Rebellion, social control, society, Vincent Van Gogh, Work
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Retconning History
By CH Source: The Hipcrime Vocab “He who controls the past, controls the future; and he who controls the present, controls the past.”–George Orwell “The mistake of judging the men of other periods by the morality of our own day … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, History, Labor, media, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged capitalism, culture, Economics, George Orwell, history, individualism, Jobs, Labor, Michael Hudson, nation-state, politics, Retconning, retroactive continuity, Revisionism, society, Work
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National Bankruptcy as a Board Game
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov Most people are familiar with the game Monopoly. Its goal is to teach capitalist kiddies a valuable lesson about capitalism; namely, that in running a business it isn’t useful to shoot for some happy … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Geopolitics, imperialism, Militarization, military spending, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, war, wasted taxpayer dollars
Tagged Bankruptcy, capitalism, Cartels, china, Economic Collapse, Economics, Energy, financial crisis, geopolitics, Interest Rates, Labor, military spending, Monopoly, national debt, Russia, Walmart, war
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The Richest Sociopath in the World
By John Rachel Source: Dissident Voice Obviously the above pie chart is a put-on. It is well-documented that working conditions for most employees of Amazon are abysmal, dehumanizing, bordering on abuse we normally associate with slavery. Moreover, the median employee’s salary under Jeff Bezos’ imperial … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Labor, Neoliberalism, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Amazon, Business, capitalism, Corporate Crime, economic inequality, Economics, elites, income gap, Jeff Bezos, Labor, sociopaths, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity
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