it’s one of those things that I think appears accusatory but imo it’s a matter-of-fact observation. You aren’t born in the core with the opinion: ‘I approve of my raised stature thanks to exploitation of the global south’. It’s tough to describe, yes all proles in the core are ‘implicated’ but I give those kinds of statements a charitable reading maybe. In another way, I think it’s meant to enlighten rather than guilt
The central point norfield is making cannot be emphasized enough, because so many liberals and socialists in imperialist countries try very hard to put it out of their minds. h&M makes handsome profits, to be sure, but these are dwarfed by the state’s take, once taxes on wages and profits of h&M and suppliers of services to it are added to its VaT 14 iMPerialiSM in The T wenT y-FirST CenTury receipts. in 2013, the tariffs charged by the u.S. government on its apparel imports from Bangladesh alone exceeded the total wages received by the workers who made these goods. The state uses this money, as we know, to finance foreign wars, health care, and Social Security, and even returns a few pennies to the poor countries in the form of “foreign aid.” as Tony norfield argues, low wages in Bangladesh help explain “why the richer countries can have lots of shop assistants, delivery drivers, managers and administrators, accountants, advertising executives, a wide range of welfare payments and much else besides.”12 his blunt conclusion: “wage rates in Bangladesh are particularly low, but even the multiples of these seen in other poor countries point to the same conclusion: oppression of workers in the poorer countries is a direct economic benefit for the mass of people in the richer countries.”
:settlers: moment
I don’t like these new rules SHOW US THEIR USERNAME
it looks less angry but still angry. I like it
it is one of the 3 podcasts I listen to regularly i feel like I get my news updates from them (besides the mega thread here). Or rather, they’re my talk radio. Red Howard Sterns
ctrl+f ‘train’
3 matches
Across the pond, the climate scandal of multimillionaire and billionaire private-jet use has been provoked by the Paris Saint-Germain football club taking a private flight to Nantes, a mere two and a half hours from the capital by train, and by Bernard Arnault, the head of luxury-goods giant LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. Arnault, who surpassed Elon Musk this year to become the world’s richest individual, had taken 18 such flights in one month, mostly between Paris and Brussels, an even shorter train distance of just an hour and 22 minutes.
Adding to the challenge to the claim that private jets play no socially constructive role is the vital role they regularly play in disaster relief due to their ability to mobilize rapidly. Global freight constraints, for example, hindered delivery of supplies to Ukraine in the early months of the war, while private jets were much more flexible.
all in all yes, absolutely communist in their analysis of the subjects they cover.
I should’ve known better
it’s possibly made by the most dorky of pew research interns imaginable. Leafing through whatever analysis they’ve compiled and um ackshuallying themselves until they have a perfect curve
Also, ‘despite what you’re told’? What the fuck could they possibly be referring to? You’re told everyday in clapistan that China is an evil place filled with a brainwashed prison population and that it is moments from collapse
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lol, a great blog. Read settlers.
agree and i appreciate it, I think I was just getting too internet brained and thinking how often the issue is presented disingenuously in a vacuum or tied to a loss of ‘cultural values’ or w/e
Anyone have some kind of even handed analysis on hand that explains whether or not all this panic for decades about birth/fertility rates has legs? I only ever give it a passing glance and i accidentally clicked a video the other day and it was some rightwing guy talking about some retvrn shit
I asked bc like the article states: the real problem is the price of housing. It seems to me that falling birth rates are a symptom of capitalism’s decline. However, many article writers seem to dance around that
i hope they never stop
and fucking IGN.
i find it miraculous that received any kind of punishment for his actions
the art style made me think that the DOTA 2 characters were from disney shows
also did the combine soldier steal the demoman’s gear?