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#News: Corruption of #capitalism in the spotlight as US court rules against #banana company #Chiquita Brands for financing paramilitary terror and violence in #Colombia. #Humanrights abuses are also widespread for #gold #palmoil and #mining in #SouthAmerica Story via @washingtonpost https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/01/chiquita-banana-verdict-colombia-capitalism/


" #capitalism has a lot to answer for. We ship #soy #palmoil around the to feed cattle. #Insecticides are marketed as #bee friendly! #greenwashing of #agriculture is madness" #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife

Dr George McGavin BBC presenter and #entomologist https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/10/18/entomologist-academic-tv-presenter-dr-george-mcgavin-in-his-own-words/



Short text showing how peaceful life could be if we could just get rid of capitalism.

Un court texte qui montre comment la vie pourrait être paisible si on se débarrasse du capitalisme.

Soon
https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1922/soon.htm

#capitalism #capitalisme #solarpunk


The good news: We have a breakthrough cure for sickle-cell disease, using CRISPR and gene-editing technology.

The bad news: It’s owned by a private company that will charge $2.2M for a course of treatment.

Pharmaceutical research should be publicly-funded, and its results should go directly into public domain, where private providers can compete on price for manufacture and distribution. For a fraction of the money we spend on missiles and remote military bases, we can save so many lives instead.

“FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR”

#healthcare #medicine #capitalism

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-cure-sickle-cell-disease-first-treatment-use-gene-editing-rcna127979


"In a completely unrelated note, Spotify is shutting down in Uruguay after the country passed a bill that requires fair pay to artists, as reported by MixMag. The company made threats to shut down when the bill was first suggested back in July and now it has followed through. A spokesperson for Spotify actually wrote Uruguay's Minister of Education, Pablo Da Silveira, to say that the country’s bill would force it to “pay twice” the amount of royalties to artists." "

https://www.engadget.com/spotify-confirms-it-wont-offer-payouts-for-songs-with-fewer-than-1000-plays-181501465.html

#Tech #Music #Corporations #Spotify #Capitalism


I would think such a proud defender of #capitalism would laud such a strong barrier to having to rub elbows with those too poor to afford such a meal.


#Google is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% #proprietary, Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.

Contribute to #OpenStreetMap instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.

https://www.openstreetmap.org

#OSM #GoogleMaps #PSA #scam #capitalism #OpenData


“Nestle says slavery reporting requirements could cost customers.”

Not to be a joyless communist, but if we can’t have chocolate without slavery, we shouldn’t have chocolate.

(By @sistersinead@twitter.com)

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/nestle-says-slavery-reporting-requirements-could-cost-customers-20180816-p4zy5l.html

#slavery #chocoate #capitalism #communism #socialism #exonomy


Could the @Bundesregierung pretty please have a look at the bussiness-case _for_ the „Energiewende“, as the US, China and others have?! Especially the „liberal“ Mr. Lindner! 🙏 Where is #capitalism, when you actually need it to _positively_ influence politics?! (for once) Well researched numbers in the article. Exponential growth at work… . #renewables for the win ($)!


@fulelo YOU WANNA BE A TEACHER???
YOU CATCH THE BULLETS!!!!
#capitalism #gop style


Whenever someone tells you that the climate crisis is a personal responsibility issue, show them this:

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10/100-fossil-fuel-companies-investors-responsible-71-global-emissions-cdp-study-climate-change

The climate crisis is a billionaires crisis, a trillion-dollar corporations crisis, a capitalism crisis, a systemic inequality crisis.

#climateChange #climateCrisis #climateCatastrophe #climate #corporatocracy #capitalism


Oh look, Google being Google.

(In case you were thinking of learning/using Go, I’d say skip it. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. Unless you like telemetry by default in your programming languages and tools, that is. In fact, just don’t touch anything tainted by Google if you can help it.)

https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409

#google #alphabet #go #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #privacy #development #dev #software


#Capitalism is disintegrating from within, but 1% still believe that everything is going well. 2023 has a huge surprise for them.
#CLASS_WAR


If you don’t know what I mean when I say “surveillance capitalism” or “people farming”, here’s a quick overview I did for the BBC a little while ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy

(Where we differ with Shoshana, who coined the former term, is that she sees it as a corruption of capitalism, whereas I see it as the natural evolution of capitalism in the digital network age.)

#surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #VentureCapital #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #corporatocracy

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