#Wages

Trinh

Trinhnomics

https://twitter.com/gerryshih/status/1253130066034225152 Idealism v Realism. Who wins? My guess is that those in the West the falsely believes in inherent superiority will be humbled by the virus & also need to

Bea Dyke BLM ACAB Trix ☂💜Ⓨ

pickle_bee

1. The Nordic Model shrinks the base of clients to be mostly made up of those who wish to break the law & likely to be dangetous2. This encourages sex

Red Kahina

RedKahina

Ok who gives a fuck about growth. Why would one need economic growth? Well here's the thing. Money is not a good asset. It's abstract. It's worthless. It depreciates. The

raja senamrobik

ezro_cadabro

you’re right in saying that capitalism did aid in the industrial revolution but not through means that are unique to capitalism and not because of private property. capitalism was only

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In Olden Days, people who worked for an employer got a pension. The pension would pay $X/month (a percentage of your salary), maybe indexed to inflation. That was a pension

Justin Oh

acouplecents

Ok this #CapitalGainsTax stuff warrants a thread because we're wading into what people misconstrue as "politics", but what I think of as "economic incentives"As always, the reality is more nuanced

Money Grab FC

MoneyGrabFC

Here's why we bring in foreign coaches.The type of visa they have places a ceiling on what they can earn. This keeps wages cheap. In fact, they get paid around

Atharva Kharbade

athrvakhrbde

Why you don't need to work hard to become richNot a clickbaitThread Continued Based on an article by Indi Samarajiva, "Being Rich Is Not Hard Work" 1/The biggest lie capitalism

Alex Wickham

alexwickham

Ministers have expressed unbridled fury to the Home Office at heavy-handed policing by some forces They say it risks “civil disobedience on a mass scale putting thousands of lives at

Emma Dawson

DawsonEJ

Once more as an actual thread. #auspol https://twitter.com/dawsonej/status/1287185880550010881 Howard as treasurer left Australia’s economy in an awful mess. The Hawke-Keating government put in place reforms that spurred growth, lifted sc

Dr Eleanor Janega

GoingMedieval

I am the god damn plague/Renaissance police and I will be issuing citations anytime I see these takes on the TL. No. Absolutely not. I rebuke all of this. In

Sean Sullivan

WaPoSean

NEW: Sen. Bernie Sanders is privately expressing concerns about Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, according to 3 people with knowledge of the conversations, urging Biden’s team to intensify its focus on

Ryan "Two Pfizer Shots and Covid Immune" Ellis

RyanLEllis

My new piece in the @dcexaminer takes a look at the @JoeBiden tax hike plan, and asks how it will impact kitchen table economic measures most important to middle class

A is for Andy

_Salsadana

I havent seen any threads goin around with information on the Propositions we'll be voting on in California so I decided to make a thread about them myself! I did

Matthew Thomason

ResDolph

The Cinematic Inspirations and Influences of Star Wars - A Thread “Flash Gordon” Serials (1936-1940)Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) Ben-Hur (1959)Star Wars: Episode I – The

Ms Right 🇬🇧

MsRightMsRight

1. Cashless society A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means