When self-described capitalists don’t actually seem to know what capitalism actually is.

#capitalism #capitalists #workers #unions #labor #markets #scarcity #shortage #WorkersShortage #economics

For those who haven’t seen it before, here is my review of The Climate Book, by Greta Thunberg…
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I've read dozens of books about climate change, and this one is easily the best. It's packed with information, written to be accessible for anyone from high school (or a bright middle school student) on up, and most importantly it does NOT shy away from the true severity of our situation and the imperative need not only for individual action but for system change.

It's stunning to me that a young woman who just turned twenty years old was able to pull together such a massive project — coordinating the submissions of more than a hundred scientists, activists, and educators — while also writing a large part of the content herself. A truly amazing accomplishment.

This essential work should be in every school library and in every home. It will remain relevant for years to come, I believe, because although there certainly is plenty of data, mostly it's about *ideas* which will never age.
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bookwyrm.social/user/BreadAndC…

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice

We can have one of two things — but not both.

We can either have a society that tolerates millionaires and billionaires polluting the planet and destroying the biosphere. Or we can have a planet with a healthy biosphere but with fewer millionaires and no billionaires at all.

This is from a recently published peer-reviewed scientific paper titled “Millionaire Spending Incompatible with 1.5 C Ambitions”...
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Much evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionately to climate change. Here we study the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions, and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C.

Our findings suggest that the share of millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050, and cause accumulated emissions equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget. This significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5°C.

The concentration of wealth at the top means that a significant share of the remaining carbon budget to 1.5°C is depleted by a very small share of humanity. This comparably small group is also likely to invest its wealth in ways that further increase emissions.

Continued growth in emissions at the top makes a low-carbon transition less likely, as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize. To this end, we question whether policy designs such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters will be sufficient.
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Like I said, we can have one thing or the other — but not both.

READ THE PAPER --sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

#Politics #Capitalism #Inequality #CO2 #Emissions #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice

Capitalism has not really raised people from extreme poverty. Most probably it has just pushed more and more people into extreme poverty over hundreds of years, in addition to making life miserable in general for so many.

The only time things have gotten better for regular people within capitalism is when workers organize and when people participate in anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist action.

New study on the topic: sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism #Socialism #Poverty

Also, now that I’m back at my computer, here’s a non-YouTube link to Greta Thunberg’s “The Climate Event” talk on an Invidious instance:

invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=…

#climateChange #extinction #capitalism #gretaThunberg

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Event

I’d highly recommend making time in your calendar to watch this speech.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ropBOwPv…

(Apologies for the YouTube link.)

#climateChange #extinction #capitalism #gretaThunberg

Greta Thunberg: The Climate Event

Greta Thunberg: The Climate EventPresented by Southbank Centre in partnership with Penguin Available on demand for 30 daysSubscribe for the latest videos fro...

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Capitalism: Screw You as a Service.

#capitalism

Wow, Microsoft is apparently harvesting links in Outlook emails and indexing them on Bing.

scribe.rip/@ryanbadger/magic-l…

#surveillance #capitalism #microsoft #privacy #gdpr #email #bing

I spoke with a company who preach diversity and inclusivity.

When discussing the possibility of working together, they asked me what salary I would accept. I asked about progression frameworks and budget, and provided examples of market rates. The recruiter wouldn’t budge and forced me to pick a number.

Don’t be that company. Be honest, be fair, and put your money where your mouth is.

showthepay.com/

#Diversity #GenderPayGap #Capitalism

Show The Pay

Put salary bands on your job adverts

^{Show The Pay}

Dictators are bad. Unless they’re corporate dictators. In which case, they’re our billionaire heroes who will save us all.

Go capitalism!

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#elonMusk #billionaire #douchebag #capitalism

Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla Execs: Return to the Office or Get Out

The world’s richest man has had it with this whole working-from-home business.

^inkl

HP to release laptop running Pop!_OS. Could System76 be an acquisition target?

(Here’s hoping this doesn’t go down the webOS route.)

betanews.com/2022/05/20/hp-pop…

Via @tuxmachines

#system76 #hp #bigTech #linux #capitalism

HP chooses Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux for its upcoming Dev One laptop -- could System76 be an acquisition target?

Rumors have been swirling lately that HP was planning to release a laptop running the Pop!_OS operating system. Today, System76’s CEO Carl Richell shared on Twitter that this is absolutely ha…

^BetaNews

Capitalism be like…

Via @kingu_platypus_gidora

#capitalism

Handing control of our biometric identities to a handful of trillion-dollar American gatekeeper corporations isn’t the good news you might think it is.

(Don’t forget, the W3C is the standards body of surveillance capitalism.)

In a non-corporate world, your “password” could be so much more… It could be, for example, a mnemonic for the key to a facet of your self that you (and you alone) own and control.

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#w3c #fido #passwords #identity #access #surveillance #capitalism

Apple, Microsoft, and Google are teaming up to eliminate passwords

Good news for the people still using "Password123!"

^inkl

I never did an #introduction!

Hi, I'm Max. I live in #NYC and do #journalism at PCMag where I cover #infosec, #security, and #privacy. I also write reviews of #VPN and professionally complain about #capitalism. I'm the Unit Chair of the ZDCG #union and moonlight as a #labor organizer. If you want to learn about how to unionize your workplace, plz DM me. I play #banjo badly and think about #medieval literature. I'm spending too much money on #fountainpens.