Wertheimer

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[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 39 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Someone must have told him about it last night because his most recent tweet sez:

"To all the socialists: the labour theory of value, posited by Marx, is total horseshit. Reality has disproven it again and again."

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

If you and your spouse are both on SSI I believe your combined benefits drop by at least 1/3.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Um, actually, Marx never wrote about "value" at all. He does have a bunch of texts about something called "Wert," which if I'm not mistaken is a non-cancerous form of viral growth usually occurring on the hands or feet.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 21 points 2 weeks ago

I have an "invisible disability," at least on my better days, so I can see this attitude in some people's faces when they ask me what I do for a living.

And yet. About 30% of all income in the U.S. is unearned. Benefits payments are a small portion of that, and the vast, vast majority of benefits payments like SSI ultimately end up in the hands of landlords. But somehow my disability check makes chuds angrier than the fact that most of that check goes to rent.

The owners of this wealth, or capital, capture around 30 percent of the income produced by the country every year. This income flows to them, not because they work for it, but merely because they own income-generating assets like real estate, equity, and debt. In 2015, total US capital income was around $4.8 trillion.

If this unearned portion of the national income was distributed equally to every individual in society, then each person would receive around $15,000 of income per year in addition to whatever else they receive from working. For a family of four, this dividend alone would bring their household income to $60,000 per year.

$15,000, incidentally, is more than the maximum annual SSI payment. So even if so-called "laziness" were classified as a disability it would actually be the "lazy" who are getting a raw deal.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Found this article but most everything that Google is giving me is from paywalled academic journals - if you have any other recommended reading please let me know.

https://www.blackagendareport.com/some-critics-argue-internal-colony-theory-outdated-heres-why-theyre-wrong

Edit - Particularly interested in more recent work. The Robert Allen study on internal neocolonialism they cite is from 1969 and the Lawrence Friedman book that discusses "differential segregation" is from 1970, and I'm curious to see this applied to post-2008 developments as well.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

Over the last forty years, the human landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. The metamorphosis is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering, coastal hubs for finance, infotech, and the so-called creative class. But this is only the tip of an economic iceberg, the bulk of which lies in the darkness of the declining heartland or on the dimly lit fringe of sprawling cities. This is America’s hinterland, populated by towering grain threshers and hunched farmworkers, where laborers drawn from every corner of the world crowd into factories and “fulfillment centers” and where cold storage trailers are filled with fentanyl-bloated corpses when the morgues cannot contain the dead.

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo28433484.html

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/

The analysis, from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP), looks beyond whether people can afford daily necessities like food and shelter to consider whether they have the means to pay for things like the technology tools necessary for their jobs, higher education, and health and child care.

(More in the other thread)

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 47 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/

The analysis, from the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity (LISEP), looks beyond whether people can afford daily necessities like food and shelter to consider whether they have the means to pay for things like the technology tools necessary for their jobs, higher education, and health and child care.

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The Ludwig Institute also says that the nation's official unemployment rate of 4.2% greatly understates the level of economic distress around the U.S. Factoring in workers who are stuck in poverty-wage jobs and people who are unable to find full-time employment, the U.S. jobless rate now tops 24%, according to LISEP, which defines these groups as "functionally unemployed."

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By those standards, the lowest-earning Americans around the U.S. are falling well short of what they need to maintain a decent standard of living, according to LISEP. These households, which in 2023 earned an average of $38,000 per year, would need to make $67,000 to afford the items the group tracks as part of its index, which also includes the cost of professional clothing and basic leisure activities.

[–] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Our best bet at stopping this is getting ankle bracelet companies to go to war to protect their market share.

 

WASHINGTON—In what was widely regarded as a misfire by the 81-year-old as he formally bowed out of the 2024 election, President Joe Biden repeatedly flubbed his exit speech today, saying he would “rule the country with an iron fist for one thousand years.” “Tonight, I, Joseph R. Biden, vow to take back my rightful throne atop the nation and continue my violent reign of terror until the end of time,” said a visibly shaky Biden, who, despite his best efforts to string together a coherent resignation, let out bloodcurdling screams, held up a human skull, and threatened to swiftly vanquish any American foolish enough to oppose him. “Though I may no longer be the Democratic nominee, I shall instead be the Supreme Leader of the United States of America, and all 340 million Americans will address me as such. Otherwise, I shall burn our nation’s cities to the ground and bathe in the ashes. I shall drink the blood of my enemies. And all shall cower before the divine will of Joe Biden! You fools. Ha ha!” At press time, worried-looking aides were shuffling Biden off-camera and telling the press corps that his repeated order to ‘Bow down to the Almighty Biden or be doomed to perish’ was the result of his struggle with a lifelong stutter.

 

Two days later, crime analyst Kimberly Dunn of the Records and Identification Bureau emailed a team of crime analysts working within the Sheriff’s Information Bureau with instructions to “keep an eye” on me.

“Freelance journalist Cerise Castle is currently working on a series of articles that started being released yesterday. The project is called “A Tradition of Violence: The History of Deputy Gangs in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department,” she wrote. “Just something to keep an eye on – to monitor what else she posts as part of this project, and for potential doxing purposes, as well.”

 

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Pat Bev, a basketball player known for dirty plays and last seen throwing a basketball so as to injure a fan, only to miss that fan and hit a woman sitting nearby, has signed with an Israeli team.

 

In france-cool , the ukkk , and now the amerikkka the ruling parties have essentially decided to give up on this year's elections. What are they trying to avoid being blamed for? Is it more than just a global recession? Wrong answers preferred.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Wertheimer@hexbear.net to c/electoralism@hexbear.net
 

The only possible good that can come of this wretched campaign is the ever-increasing likelihood that it will cause the Democratic Party to self-destruct. A lot of people are seriously worried about this, but I am not one of them. I have never been much of a Party Man myself. . . and the more I learn about the realities of national politics, the more I’m convinced that the Democratic Party is an atavistic endeavor – more an Obstacle than a Vehicle – and that there is really no hope of accomplishing anything genuinely new or different in American politics until the Democratic Party is done away with.

hst-pissed From Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

 

Gonna print out a bunch of copies of this and get hit with 20 years of charges for flyering mailboxes of houses in my area flying these things

"At first, we wanted one of our flags in every home in America," Burman said. "Unfortunately, the practical applications of this product are far outnumbered by the risks it presents. Millions have died needlessly, and when you ask people why, they point to the flag."

Added Burman, "Frankly, we should have pulled it off the market decades ago."

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