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Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-francis-dead-01ca7d73c3c48d25fd1504ba076e2e2a
Pope Francis was history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change.
#Pope #Francis #Dies #Humanitarian #Advocate #Poor #Critic #Climate #Gaza #Capitalism
@Palky55@mas.to#capitalism #HNW (High Net Worth) #Money #INEOS Explainer: O dear, Sir Jim now worth only £23.5bn, down £6.2bn) . Company debt = £10.6bn . Even Bear of little Brain (#BOLB) senses some unnecessary hand wringing. £10.6bn is a lot of leverage (i.e. 'he owns his creditors' : The McAwber principle £1 of debt, you own the bank! They need you if they want their (?) dosh back.) n.b. This principle only works for us little people if you are smarter than your bankers, lol. 
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/20/jim-ratcliffe-chemicals-business-under-pressure-from-trump-tariffs-moodys-ineos-quattro?CMP=share_btn_url
Rating agency downgrades Ineos Quattro as it says ‘trade…
The Guardian
@TheDialecticalCommunist@social.marxist.networkCapitalism is cursed - Karl Marx
Modern capitalist society with its relations of production, of exchange and property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. (Karl Marx)
#capitalism #socialism #communism #marxism #marx #karlmarx #quotes #wizards #spells #fantasy
Regarding the more recent #BlueOrigin flight featuring so-called "#celebrities"
#video #jeffbezos #classwar #SpaceBillionaires #capitalism #fascism #oppression #repression #pollution #eattherich #ausgov #politas
@lunareclipse @gabboman
IP laws that specifically benefit capital are a problem. IP laws that do not protect an individual's work while benefitting capital would be worse than our current IP laws, which are a problem.
#IP-laws #capitalism #fuck-disney
Teresita
I can’t believe I’m already on the 6th post for my blog. This one is about the types of optimization failures that lead to wicked problems like antibiotic resistance and and climate change, a set up for future discussions about progress traps.
https://misaligned.markets/when-optimization-goes-wrong-caught-in-mammons-grasp/
We return to my metaphor for maloptimization, or optimization…
Misaligned Markets“Why the UK’s electricity costs are so high – and what can be done about it?” Profiteering? - Nationalisation? #Capitalism
Stolen iPhone victims look to Apple lawsuit to reclaim years of data - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/1NMCR
rk Tgether
@freeschool@qoto.orgThey want to make us poor (A reminder of human life using bank's usury at it's core)...
#Life is not to be passed on but paid for as much as
possible more infinitely as a kind of "#maximization" and "#efficiency" towards more useless #profit (because it's mostly for others while people stay nearer minimum lines to exist).
Keeping people #desperate as customers and keeping people
coming back is a lot via #usury. What stays broken basically needs us to constantly mend it without every getting there with money alone and forever paying...
Selling / Buying #Money (loans / fees = devaluation of total
money in the pool) and a large part of #Capitalism itself
making it never-ending.
"Ask your local highstreet #bank branch (shop for debt) for
details for how #debt works."
"why #capitalism does not love humanity"
These always strike me as odd complaints. It's an economic system; it has no perceiving mind, nor capacity for emotion of any kind. I might as well complain that math doesn't love humanity, or that clouds don't love humanity.
@pete@mas.to#ReadSteinbeck #GrapesOfWrath #Steinbeck
It's a great bottom up description of the capitalist process, and why #capitalism does not love humanity.
“Melting glaciers will harm us all. Yet still we watch, unmoved. The degradation of the Arctic tundra has triggered a terrible chain reaction that can only lead to greater mayhem.” No problem as long as those oil dividends keep pouring in! #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism
I hate when #people say “#capitalism breeds #innovation” like Honestly, can you think of anything that capitalism has created in the last five years? Any #inventions? Anything at all? Because, to be frank, the only thing I can possibly think of is #Ai. but that wasn’t created in the last five years, rather it just became a mainstream (and really shitty) #tool. All it’s doing Is putting people out of their #jobs with its pathetic rendering of their craft.
I just watched this prescient 2012 episode from political comedians Clarke & Dawe. It includes this:
C: Well, as you know in Economics, the great battle in the 20th century was that between capital and labour…
D: Won by capital
C: Won resoundingly by capital, who then move on to the next round and...
D: Who do they meet in the next?
C: They're going to meet democracy in the final
D: Wow, that'll be a good match
C: It'll be an absolute cracker
https://www.europesays.com/uk/34827/ Books, burnout and the business of reading | Blog #Books #booktok #capitalism #consumerism #Entertainment #publishing #UK #UnitedKingdom
Panda Express becomes the latest business to ban masks for employees, insisting that being able to see facial expressions is necessary for team building.
This is ableist & discriminatory. Employees have to apply to be allowed to mask, putting an undue burden on disabled staff.
Not to mention these are minimum wage paying jobs and many staff may not be able to afford a doctors note or whatever arbitrary “proof” the company will require to allow staff to mask.
#uglylaws #capitalism #ableism #fascism #eugenics #disability #disabilityjustice #maskbans
