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07.05.202507:20
Israel's Final Solution is here
https://redd.it/1kgpqzk
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07.05.202500:20
Trump radically remade the US food system in just 100 days - The people who grow and sell America's food no longer trust the USDA. We made a timeline to show you what happened
https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/trump-usda-food-system-agriculture-first-100-days
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https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/trump-usda-food-system-agriculture-first-100-days
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06.05.202516:20
Carl Zha YT: Chinese Trolls CIA China Recruitment Video (hilarious troll of the recent CIA video, but reflecting the realities of life in Murikkka)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTvly5ZvpdA
https://redd.it/1kg5p9e
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTvly5ZvpdA
https://redd.it/1kg5p9e
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06.05.202506:20
Woman makes over 600k for a calling a black autistic 5 year old boy the N-word
https://redd.it/1kfo4w0
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05.05.202518:20
U.S. Secretary of Commerce says the ‘new model’ is factory jobs for life—for you, your kids, and your grandkids
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-secretary-commerce-says-model-172111761.html
https://redd.it/1kfewu1
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-secretary-commerce-says-model-172111761.html
https://redd.it/1kfewu1
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07.05.202506:20
Trump is successfully uniting the rest of the world ... 'divided and conquer' strategy failed miserably. 🇨🇳China and 🇪🇺EU deepen their ties and lift all restrictions on mutual exchanges. 🇨🇳China, 🇯🇵Japan, 🇰🇷South Korea and 🌏ASEAN issued a joint statement against trade protectionism.
https://redd.it/1kgq0re
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06.05.202520:20
Why Does North Korea Hate the US? GDF YT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE9MUwAbFQI
https://redd.it/1kgbuwa
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE9MUwAbFQI
https://redd.it/1kgbuwa
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06.05.202500:20
The economist: China has a secret weapon in the trade war
The weapon described in their article: gig economy workers getting benefits
https://redd.it/1kfptoa
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The weapon described in their article: gig economy workers getting benefits
https://redd.it/1kfptoa
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05.05.202517:20
Israeli Terror Forces Blow Up Building in Gaza for ‘Gender Reveal’
https://redd.it/1kfdxey
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05.05.202501:20
have been there every step of the way since 1828 building the system and then dismantling large parts of it as per the needs of the capitalist class which overall rules society.
On the subject of the “left” currently within the Democratic infrastructure. Bernie is now the outreach arm trying to pull in and neutralize progressives and pull them into that machine which they're going to “totally transform.” Except they haven't, and they're not going to. It's a false promise. It's a lie. What they're actually trying to do is take the arrogant and ignorant blue maga cult that they're building, which is as impervious to criticism and does not conduct self-criticism and teach and spread it over into the progressives. All the while, doing so against the backdrop of the horrible things that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to introduce and that's legitimately frightening, let alone all the stuff that's going on at the state level.
If Bernie had led a 10 million or 15 million voter chunk out of the 50-million-member Democratic Party (Into the Greens or a newly established labor party), the Dems clearly and obviously never would be able to get elected again without the left - and in a way that would matter and couldn’t be hidden from the public discussion. That would bring the left into the light and put our agenda on the table, putting the rest of the struggle’s success on our own, internal politics to bring the correct ideas, strategies, and tactics to the fore. Most of the real fight still would be outside the electoral system, but we wouldn’t just be flat-out ignored by the mainstream any longer, and this would pull so many more demoralized and disheartened workers back into the fight.
The US left continues to be stuck with no major labor movement and no major anti-imperialist political leaders. If your “left” leaders are still promoting the 1%-owned, genocidal-imperialist Democratic Party as part of the solution to the problems facing the US working class and the exploited and oppressed of the global south, they’re not leaders; they’re misleaders. It can be a hard truth to face, but it is true. We need a militant, anti-capitalist labor movement fighting for socialism at home and to dismantle the empire abroad.
https://redd.it/1keyqc3
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On the subject of the “left” currently within the Democratic infrastructure. Bernie is now the outreach arm trying to pull in and neutralize progressives and pull them into that machine which they're going to “totally transform.” Except they haven't, and they're not going to. It's a false promise. It's a lie. What they're actually trying to do is take the arrogant and ignorant blue maga cult that they're building, which is as impervious to criticism and does not conduct self-criticism and teach and spread it over into the progressives. All the while, doing so against the backdrop of the horrible things that Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to introduce and that's legitimately frightening, let alone all the stuff that's going on at the state level.
If Bernie had led a 10 million or 15 million voter chunk out of the 50-million-member Democratic Party (Into the Greens or a newly established labor party), the Dems clearly and obviously never would be able to get elected again without the left - and in a way that would matter and couldn’t be hidden from the public discussion. That would bring the left into the light and put our agenda on the table, putting the rest of the struggle’s success on our own, internal politics to bring the correct ideas, strategies, and tactics to the fore. Most of the real fight still would be outside the electoral system, but we wouldn’t just be flat-out ignored by the mainstream any longer, and this would pull so many more demoralized and disheartened workers back into the fight.
The US left continues to be stuck with no major labor movement and no major anti-imperialist political leaders. If your “left” leaders are still promoting the 1%-owned, genocidal-imperialist Democratic Party as part of the solution to the problems facing the US working class and the exploited and oppressed of the global south, they’re not leaders; they’re misleaders. It can be a hard truth to face, but it is true. We need a militant, anti-capitalist labor movement fighting for socialism at home and to dismantle the empire abroad.
https://redd.it/1keyqc3
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07.05.202502:20
Jewish Rabbi speaks on the actual meaning of anti-Semitism
https://redd.it/1kglwfu
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https://redd.it/1kglwfu
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06.05.202519:20
Time to learn some THEORY: Marx and Alienation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz8WI9P2MIc
https://redd.it/1kg9axv
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz8WI9P2MIc
https://redd.it/1kg9axv
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06.05.202511:20
Capitalism upgraded the factory. Now it’s a dashboard with a smiley face...
Just read something and genuinely had to pause and stare into the void for a sec. Starts as a funny story about someone snooping on their boss’s SharePoint folders---ends up being a bleak, bang-on breakdown of how the modern workplace is just surveillance with a softer UI.
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Basically: the factory never went away. It just got Wi-Fi.
You’re not being managed---you’re being modelled. Your green dot, your email response time, your calendar density... all quietly turned into performance data. Optimised before you’re even understood.
And we call this progress?
Not a think piece. More like a slow, creeping horror story that most of us live through. Worth a look if you’ve ever faked busy while your mouse begged for mercy.
https://noisyghost.substack.com/p/techno-feudalism-at-work-the-factory
Anyone else feel like we didn’t escape the factory — it just learned to speak in wellness webinars and Slack emojis?
https://redd.it/1kg0unr
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Just read something and genuinely had to pause and stare into the void for a sec. Starts as a funny story about someone snooping on their boss’s SharePoint folders---ends up being a bleak, bang-on breakdown of how the modern workplace is just surveillance with a softer UI.
>
Basically: the factory never went away. It just got Wi-Fi.
You’re not being managed---you’re being modelled. Your green dot, your email response time, your calendar density... all quietly turned into performance data. Optimised before you’re even understood.
And we call this progress?
Not a think piece. More like a slow, creeping horror story that most of us live through. Worth a look if you’ve ever faked busy while your mouse begged for mercy.
https://noisyghost.substack.com/p/techno-feudalism-at-work-the-factory
Anyone else feel like we didn’t escape the factory — it just learned to speak in wellness webinars and Slack emojis?
https://redd.it/1kg0unr
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05.05.202520:20
In 2016, America dropped at least 26,171 bombs authorized by President Barack Obama. This means that every day in 2016, the US military blasted combatants or civilians overseas with 72 bombs; that’s three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day.
https://redd.it/1kf97uk
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05.05.202513:20
Israel plans to seize and hold all of Gaza indefinitely, drawing UN condemnation. The UN warns the move would deprive civilians, especially the vulnerable, of vital supplies and says it appears aimed at using humanitarian needs as leverage in military strategy.
https://news.sky.com/story/israel-approves-plan-to-seize-all-of-gaza-and-hold-it-indefinitely-officials-say-13362138
https://redd.it/1kfaddn
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https://news.sky.com/story/israel-approves-plan-to-seize-all-of-gaza-and-hold-it-indefinitely-officials-say-13362138
https://redd.it/1kfaddn
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05.05.202501:20
A Critical Message about the Role of Bernie, AOC, and the Democratic Party within the US
In response to the uptick in the amount of people discussing the role of Bernie, AOC, and the Democratic Party within the US’s Leftist Movement (or the lack thereof) I decided to transcribe several points made by a YouTube channel called Socialism 4 All. I did this because I believe S4A has made some valuable contributions regarding the subject. If you don't want to read but still want to engage with the points, then I've provided links to the videos. Otherwise, I've provided a condensed, yet still lengthy, version below.
I did not produce this. The following is not my work.
The material from this post is from the video,
“Let’s Talk About Fighting Oligarchy…Marxistly | Bernie & AOC vs. Trump & Musk: Will Capitalism Win?”
and the video,
“Replying to Bernie Comments 1: For an Organized #VoteStrike Against Dems”
by Socialism For All on YouTube.
The only way in which you can influence the Democratic Party, is from the outside, by withholding votes in order to force concessions from them. The fundamental task of the US working class, and that includes the labor unions etc, is to decouple from the Democratic party, gain class independence, and build our own organizations by, first of all, various kinds of community organizing and, secondarily, trying to win some seats at various levels of government where that makes sense or, where it doesn't, trying to influence the Democratic party. But if you get into their party and you give them votes and you give them money, that's literally all they want. They will just ignore you. There's no accountability. If you get in and you make too much of a stir, they’ll just replace you or crush you in some way. It's been almost 10 years since Bernie Sanders set out to quote, “totally transform the Democratic Party.” How's that going?
We need to move on from the Democratic party which is holding everything back. They’re holding back any real resistance while the Republicans have been implementing neofascism progressively over the last 50 years. The neoliberal period basically goes something like this: When the Republicans have control, they introduce privatization, deregulation, and defunding due to the deepening crisis of late-stage capitalism's profitability, as predicted by Marks and Engles. This eventually results in a terminal crisis from which capitalism cannot recover. What that whole neoliberal agenda of squeezing the workers is about is trying to compensate for the falling rate of profit and this is accompanied by an increased police state, increased surveillance, political repression, and so on. That's what the Republicans do in order to cope with the contradictions of the system. When the Democrats get in, they don't really repeal anything. Instead, they tinker with it, and they help to finalize it. In this way, they work like the old good cop bad cop routine that police pull when they're trying to bust somebody.
Donald Trump got elected twice and before that, from 2001 to 2009, we had Bush and Cheney. This is like a replay of that. Nobody really wants to remember that, it's so shameful. There's a collective amnesia and a kind of trauma to it, but we went through something really similar. There was this sort of radical right-wing overhaul of the government, except the difference was they were still at an earlier stage of tearing it all down at that point, but it was aimed directly at where we are now. That was the trajectory. When Obama got in, they didn't really dismantle what Bush and Cheney had set up so it almost seems like the Democrats can't really stop this and then when they do have an opportunity to do something, they don't do very much. It’s almost like there is a consensus in both factions of the ruling class, who may disagree somewhat on strategy and tactics but who overall agree that this needs to get done. The Democrats
In response to the uptick in the amount of people discussing the role of Bernie, AOC, and the Democratic Party within the US’s Leftist Movement (or the lack thereof) I decided to transcribe several points made by a YouTube channel called Socialism 4 All. I did this because I believe S4A has made some valuable contributions regarding the subject. If you don't want to read but still want to engage with the points, then I've provided links to the videos. Otherwise, I've provided a condensed, yet still lengthy, version below.
I did not produce this. The following is not my work.
The material from this post is from the video,
“Let’s Talk About Fighting Oligarchy…Marxistly | Bernie & AOC vs. Trump & Musk: Will Capitalism Win?”
and the video,
“Replying to Bernie Comments 1: For an Organized #VoteStrike Against Dems”
by Socialism For All on YouTube.
The only way in which you can influence the Democratic Party, is from the outside, by withholding votes in order to force concessions from them. The fundamental task of the US working class, and that includes the labor unions etc, is to decouple from the Democratic party, gain class independence, and build our own organizations by, first of all, various kinds of community organizing and, secondarily, trying to win some seats at various levels of government where that makes sense or, where it doesn't, trying to influence the Democratic party. But if you get into their party and you give them votes and you give them money, that's literally all they want. They will just ignore you. There's no accountability. If you get in and you make too much of a stir, they’ll just replace you or crush you in some way. It's been almost 10 years since Bernie Sanders set out to quote, “totally transform the Democratic Party.” How's that going?
We need to move on from the Democratic party which is holding everything back. They’re holding back any real resistance while the Republicans have been implementing neofascism progressively over the last 50 years. The neoliberal period basically goes something like this: When the Republicans have control, they introduce privatization, deregulation, and defunding due to the deepening crisis of late-stage capitalism's profitability, as predicted by Marks and Engles. This eventually results in a terminal crisis from which capitalism cannot recover. What that whole neoliberal agenda of squeezing the workers is about is trying to compensate for the falling rate of profit and this is accompanied by an increased police state, increased surveillance, political repression, and so on. That's what the Republicans do in order to cope with the contradictions of the system. When the Democrats get in, they don't really repeal anything. Instead, they tinker with it, and they help to finalize it. In this way, they work like the old good cop bad cop routine that police pull when they're trying to bust somebody.
Donald Trump got elected twice and before that, from 2001 to 2009, we had Bush and Cheney. This is like a replay of that. Nobody really wants to remember that, it's so shameful. There's a collective amnesia and a kind of trauma to it, but we went through something really similar. There was this sort of radical right-wing overhaul of the government, except the difference was they were still at an earlier stage of tearing it all down at that point, but it was aimed directly at where we are now. That was the trajectory. When Obama got in, they didn't really dismantle what Bush and Cheney had set up so it almost seems like the Democrats can't really stop this and then when they do have an opportunity to do something, they don't do very much. It’s almost like there is a consensus in both factions of the ruling class, who may disagree somewhat on strategy and tactics but who overall agree that this needs to get done. The Democrats
06.05.202518:20
The comrade who exposed AOC (for running interference for Biden/Harris who were revealed to have never actually pursued a ceasefire in Gaza) is a member of CODE PINK & was also assaulted by the Kahanist, pro-Ben-Gvir mob in Crown Heights last week. This video shows her POV both incidents.
https://redd.it/1kgadph
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https://redd.it/1kgadph
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06.05.202508:20
Democracy has been colonized by capitalism
Democracy has been colonized by capitalism and fused with fascism
If democracy no longer meaningfully empowers the people instead controls them through subtle coercion, distraction, and managed illusion. This is fascism hiding. This is felt by the reality for people who see institutional failure, performative politics, and systematic gaslighting.
Capitalism is not just part if the picture but the engine. It uses democratic structures as a skin while hollowing out their core values. What’s left is a system that looks democratic but functions oligarchically.
Capitalism naturally breeds inequality, instability, fear and eventually mask off fascism. When billionaires have more political leverage than a million voters, capitalism cancels out democracy. Capitalism needs control and the people have been disengaged, misinformed, or simply tired to challenge the system (or on the other side too comfortable to challenge the system). This passivity allows elites to operate unchecked, with the facade of legitimacy.
The people are sadly stupid. Our democracy has just been soft fascism for a long time.
https://redd.it/1kfywwi
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Democracy has been colonized by capitalism and fused with fascism
If democracy no longer meaningfully empowers the people instead controls them through subtle coercion, distraction, and managed illusion. This is fascism hiding. This is felt by the reality for people who see institutional failure, performative politics, and systematic gaslighting.
Capitalism is not just part if the picture but the engine. It uses democratic structures as a skin while hollowing out their core values. What’s left is a system that looks democratic but functions oligarchically.
Capitalism naturally breeds inequality, instability, fear and eventually mask off fascism. When billionaires have more political leverage than a million voters, capitalism cancels out democracy. Capitalism needs control and the people have been disengaged, misinformed, or simply tired to challenge the system (or on the other side too comfortable to challenge the system). This passivity allows elites to operate unchecked, with the facade of legitimacy.
The people are sadly stupid. Our democracy has just been soft fascism for a long time.
https://redd.it/1kfywwi
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05.05.202519:20
Looking for free and accessible Spanish language left wing media recommendations
https://redd.it/1kfe9rk
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https://redd.it/1kfe9rk
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05.05.202512:20
In Factfullness (Hans Rosling, 2018) the Rosling Divided the Wealth of the World into 4 levels. I wanted to figure out how many levels we actually go to.
In Factfullness, rather than describing the world in binary "west-rest" terms, Hans Rosling proposes that we look at the world in a different way: Levels.
Level 1 - the hardest level. You are earning between $0-2 a day. 1 billion People live in this state.
Level 2 - $2-$8 a day. You can afford a bicycle, and gas cooking burner. 3 billion people live like this. Hans describes this as "middle" income. Lets call it "low-middle
Level 3 - $8-$32 a day. You can afford a motorbike, a gas cooking stove, and cold running water to your home. 2 billion people life here. Lets call this "middle".
Level 4 - $32 a day and an undetermined maximum. This is described as "high income" running water, a car, gas cooking. A billion people - you and I included - life here.
But there was no level 5. So I extrapolated.
It's a maximum of 2\^1 for Level 1. 2\^3 for level 2. 2\^5 for level 3. Therefore, 2\^7 ($128) a day seems like a solid maximum for level 4, and a good start for a 'level 5.' If you earn more than $46,720 a year, you are 'level 5' income. Cool. Lets revise and continue.
Level 4 - $32 - $128 a day.
Level 5 - $128-$512 a day. Thats a very nice wage. Upto $186k a year. Now, almost everyone is between level 4 and 5, even as a family. That's a massive amount of money.
Level 6 - $512 - $2,048! a day. The first 4 figure daily income. Upto 747k a year! That's a lot. The President of the United States (should) be in this bracket. That's an incredible amount of income.
Im going to table the rest because the list gets long.
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||Level 7|Level 8|Level 9|Level 10|Level 11|Level 12|Level 13|Level 14|Level 15|
|Daily Income Max.|$8,192|$32,768|$524,288|$2,097,152|$8,388,608|$33,554,432|$134,217,728|$536,870,912|$2,147,483,648|
|Min. Wage|$747,520|$2,990,080|$11,960,320|$191,365,120|$765,460,480|$3,061,841,920|$12,247,367,680|$48,989,470,720|$195,957,882,880|
|Max. Wage|$2,990,080|$11,960,320|$191,365,120|$765,460,480|$3,061,841,920|$12,247,367,680|$48,989,470,720|$195,957,882,880|$783,831,531,520|
Now, there are astronomical numbers.
Elon Musk, in 2024, was level 15.
A level 15 makes between 536 million and 2 billion a day.
The income of a single level 16 would raise all the world's poorest level 1s, to level 2 immediately.
Where should the reasonable 'maximum' be? Level 10? 2 million dollars a day?
If we could put running water in every home. A bicycle to every family. That would effectively move the level 1s all to level 2.
https://redd.it/1kf5n1d
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In Factfullness, rather than describing the world in binary "west-rest" terms, Hans Rosling proposes that we look at the world in a different way: Levels.
Level 1 - the hardest level. You are earning between $0-2 a day. 1 billion People live in this state.
Level 2 - $2-$8 a day. You can afford a bicycle, and gas cooking burner. 3 billion people live like this. Hans describes this as "middle" income. Lets call it "low-middle
Level 3 - $8-$32 a day. You can afford a motorbike, a gas cooking stove, and cold running water to your home. 2 billion people life here. Lets call this "middle".
Level 4 - $32 a day and an undetermined maximum. This is described as "high income" running water, a car, gas cooking. A billion people - you and I included - life here.
But there was no level 5. So I extrapolated.
It's a maximum of 2\^1 for Level 1. 2\^3 for level 2. 2\^5 for level 3. Therefore, 2\^7 ($128) a day seems like a solid maximum for level 4, and a good start for a 'level 5.' If you earn more than $46,720 a year, you are 'level 5' income. Cool. Lets revise and continue.
Level 4 - $32 - $128 a day.
Level 5 - $128-$512 a day. Thats a very nice wage. Upto $186k a year. Now, almost everyone is between level 4 and 5, even as a family. That's a massive amount of money.
Level 6 - $512 - $2,048! a day. The first 4 figure daily income. Upto 747k a year! That's a lot. The President of the United States (should) be in this bracket. That's an incredible amount of income.
Im going to table the rest because the list gets long.
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||Level 7|Level 8|Level 9|Level 10|Level 11|Level 12|Level 13|Level 14|Level 15|
|Daily Income Max.|$8,192|$32,768|$524,288|$2,097,152|$8,388,608|$33,554,432|$134,217,728|$536,870,912|$2,147,483,648|
|Min. Wage|$747,520|$2,990,080|$11,960,320|$191,365,120|$765,460,480|$3,061,841,920|$12,247,367,680|$48,989,470,720|$195,957,882,880|
|Max. Wage|$2,990,080|$11,960,320|$191,365,120|$765,460,480|$3,061,841,920|$12,247,367,680|$48,989,470,720|$195,957,882,880|$783,831,531,520|
Now, there are astronomical numbers.
Elon Musk, in 2024, was level 15.
A level 15 makes between 536 million and 2 billion a day.
The income of a single level 16 would raise all the world's poorest level 1s, to level 2 immediately.
Where should the reasonable 'maximum' be? Level 10? 2 million dollars a day?
If we could put running water in every home. A bicycle to every family. That would effectively move the level 1s all to level 2.
https://redd.it/1kf5n1d
@r_latestagecapitalism
05.05.202500:20
Tomorrow the House will vote on HR 867, a bill that will criminalize private boycotts of Israel. Fines up to $1,000,000 and prison time up to 20 years.co)
here is the Bill; HR 867.
https://redd.it/1kexsk2
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here is the Bill; HR 867.
https://redd.it/1kexsk2
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