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Project Censored 12.10.19
Kenn Burrows and Amber Yang discuss on social media, corporate news, constructive journalism and related topics
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Abby Martin and Chris Hedges discuss the bipartisan road from neoliberalism to fascism. Also, Catherine Austin Fitts on the missing trillions and what we can do to reclaim it.
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Tag Archives: Sharing Economy
Forget Techno-Optimism: We Can’t Innovate Our Way Out of Inequality
By Chris Lehmann Source: In These Times Toward the end of his 250-page hymn to digital-age innovation, The Industries of the Future, Alec Ross pauses to offer a rare cautionary note. Silicon Valley may have incubated all the wonders and … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged automation, Economics, economy, Globalization, healthcare, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Retirement, Sharing Economy, Silicon Valley, technology, unemployment
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Economic grace of ‘Social Credit’: national dividend with compensated retail prices for consumer goods distribution in an age of technology
By Wallace Klinck Source: The Daily Censored “The unacknowledged, but obvious, truth is that unnecessary work, imposed by either edict or contrived financial legerdemain, is slavery and servitude—totally irrational and immoral. Every engineer worthy of the name is trying to eliminate the … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Philosophy, Recession, Social Control, society, Spirituality, Work
Tagged capitalism, Debt, economic inequality, Libertarianism, Major C.H. Douglas, Sharing Economy, Social Credit, Socialism, technology, Wealth Concentration, Wealth Disparity, Work
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We Need a Social Economy, Not a Hyper-Financialized Plantation Economy
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds The key to broadly distributing capital and reversing inequality is to nurture the source of social capital: the community economy. We all know what a hyper-financialized economy looks like–we live in one:central … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Social Control, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged central banks, Community Economy, Neo Feudalism, neo-colonialism, Neo-Liberalism, Peer to Peer, Plantation Economy, Sharing Economy, wall street, Welfare Society
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The Calling: How Cronyism Worsens Income Inequality (and Freed Markets Reduce It)
By Steven Horwitz Source: Future of Freedom Foundation I recently gave an introductory Public Choice talk sponsored by Students for Liberty at the University of Ottawa. The next speaker was my friend Anne Rathbone Bradley, who was Skyping in from … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, Labor, Law, Privatization, Recession, society, Work
Tagged Cronyism, FFF, Future of Freedom Foundation, Income Inequality, Libertarians, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Rent Seeking, Sharing Economy, Steven Horwitz, Wealth Disparity
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