Economic Inequality: It’s Far Worse Than You Think. In a candid conversation with Frank Rich last fall, Chris Rock said, "Oh, people don’t even know.
If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets. " The findings of three studies, published over the last several years in Perspectives on Psychological Science, suggest that Rock is right. We have no idea how unequal our society has become. In their 2011 paper, Michael Norton and Dan Ariely analyzed beliefs about wealth inequality. They asked more than 5,000 Americans to guess the percentage of wealth (i.e., savings, property, stocks, etc., minus debts) owned by each fifth of the population. The average American believes that the richest fifth own 59% of the wealth and that the bottom 40% own 9%.
The Rise of the Working Poor and the Non-Working Rich Many believe that poor people deserve to be poor because they're lazy.
As Speaker John Boehner has said, the poor have a notion that "I really don't have to work. I don't really want to do this. I think I'd rather just sit around. " In reality, a large and growing share of the nation's poor work full time -- sometimes sixty or more hours a week -- yet still don't earn enough to lift themselves and their families out of poverty. It's also commonly believed, especially among Republicans, that the rich deserve their wealth because they work harder than others. Money: An Abstraction Decoupled From Nature. Money is nothing more than a term that represents an abstract form of exchange of labour for purchasing power.
This article shall not investigate interest, loans, debt or the creation of money. The Rise of the Robots by Robert Skidelsky. Exit from comment view mode.
Click to hide this space LONDON – What impact will automation – the so-called “rise of the robots” – have on wages and employment over the coming decades? Nowadays, this question crops up whenever unemployment rises. In the early nineteenth century, David Ricardo considered the possibility that machines would replace labor; Karl Marx followed him. Around the same time, the Luddites smashed the textile machinery that they saw as taking their jobs. Then the fear of machines died away. The Root Problem is the Root Solution: How We Can Fix Our Democracy and Create a Sustainable Future. By Tim Hjersted So, I was trying to get my friend to read a recent issue of Adbusters magazine. "You've got to read this! " I said. "There's an article about how the media today is owned by only a handful of corporations, and corporate consolidation is leading to fewer voices getting on the air and stifling the range of debate, which is stifling the health of our democracy.
And corporations themselves are legally bound by law to seek a profit over any other competing interest. Hempcrete.com.au: The Australian Hempcrete Technologists. Hempcrete Could Change The Way We Build Everything. When it comes to new and sustainable housing ideas, it seems to always be about creating a more efficient home in terms of insulation, lighting, electricity, etc.
Mainstream belief on the subject would have you believe that top corporations and government projects are working with the best possible technology to bring forth solutions that work and are going to be great for the environment. How Hunter-Gatherers Maintained Their Egalitarian Ways: Three Complementary Theories. How do we redesign a new economic theory framed by ecological systems? Eradicating Ecocide. ’Der er ikke job nok til folk’ The Power Principle – An Interview with Filmmaker Scott Noble. Scott Noble is the director of several acclaimed and politically charged documentaries, including Psywar, Human Resources and Lifting the Veil.
His documentary on Occupy Wall Street, Rise Like Lions, took the #1 spot on Films for Action’s Top Ten Occupy films. His latest, The Power Principle, takes on the American empire, with emphasis on the Cold War period. The real invasion of Africa is not news and a licence to lie is Hollywood's gift. The real invasion of Africa is not news and a licence to lie is Hollywood's gift 31 January 2013 A full-scale invasion of Africa is under way.
The United States is deploying troops in 35 African countries, beginning with Libya, Sudan, Algeria and Niger. Reported by Associated Press on Christmas Day, this was missing from most Anglo-American media. The invasion has almost nothing to do with "Islamism", and almost everything to do with the acquisition of resources, notably minerals, and an accelerating rivalry with China.
Reminiscent of the Scramble for Africa in the late 19th century, the US African Command (Africom) has built a network of supplicants among collaborative African regimes eager for American bribes and armaments. The times they are a-changing « limpidusdotorg. We Are Not a Club. We are not a club.... we are not looking for club members.
Or.... now you started your chapter.... what next? As this question has come up quite a bit I felt that I would try to address it. Actually, it is probably one of the most asked questions. This information is for the local town and city chapters. JSoc: Obama's secret assassins.