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enough-for-all.bsky.social
Advocating for economic justice.
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There are two things that cause crime: the desperation that comes from having too little wealth, and the impunity that comes from having too much wealth.

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“Oh no! A very bad person got into this position of immense power and is now doing very bad things!” Maybe such an immense amount of power shouldn’t have been concentrated into the hands of any one person in the first place.

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Economic justice is the same as geopolitical justice, and is necessary for geopolitical stability. Empires have always been the engine of all international oppression. The primary goal and function of any empire is to concentrate control of wealth as much as possible.

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So there’s a theory that racism was cultivated (wittingly or not) by the wealthiest in society as a way to redirect anger away wealth disparity and onto scapegoats. I’m not saying this theory explains everything about racism and economic exploitation, but it does really tie the room together.

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Economic justice is the same as racial justice. Racial wealth disparity is a primary mechanism for enforcing social subordination.

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Economic justice is the same as climate justice. A habitable environment is the bedrock foundation of the economic floor that everyone needs and deserves. Meanwhile, the vast majority of catastrophic climate change was caused and continues to be caused by the holders of ultra-concentrated wealth.

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Economic justice is the same as social justice. Only when everyone has enough wealth and no one has too much will power be balanced enough to prevent widespread mass exploitation.

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An increase in inequality can never benefit the poor: even if their wealth in some absolute sense rises, their power relative to the rich falls. If it falls enough, the situation is rightly called slavery, no less so because the cage is gilded.

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When protesters chant, “no justice, no peace,” they don’t only mean it as the threat that if you don’t give us justice we won’t give you peace. They also mean that peace is actually impossible without justice.

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People always point out that taxing the super-wealthy wouldn't actually raise all that much revenue, but it's becoming clearer that the primary benefit is just taking away their money.

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“Nobody deserves to suffer. Nobody. Not even Hitler.” — Aaron Rabinowitz @etvpod.bsky.social

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Take from the rich And give to the poor, Till there’s no more rich And no more poor. Happy new year!

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The only important problems with AI are not at all specific to AI: any technology is a problem exactly to the extent that it makes the rich richer and the poor poorer. That pattern is never caused by the technology alone, but by the social systems that allocate control over the technology.

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This is one of the reasons I really struggle with the “actually, the economy is good you idiot” takes on here. Good for whomst? apnews.com/article/home...

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

We’re in the Second Gilded Age because we didn’t do enough to thwart the first one. Economic justice can only be sustained by keeping wealth concentration low.

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I'm impressed by the analyses of Judaism provided in many of the posts from @delafina777.bsky.social. So I'm curious to hear her take on my biggest problem with Judaism: the command to destroy the Canaanites, Amorites, Girgashites, Hittites, Hivites, Jebusites, and Perizzites is morally intolerable.

submitted 61 days ago • 7 comments

A barrier between money and politics is a good thing, to the extent it can be built and sustained. But it can’t be sustained for very long. The power of concentrated wealth will always corrode and dissolve such a barrier.

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

An empire is malignant in the same way as an individual wealth hoarder. Every empire functions as a wealth pump. Concentration of wealth corrupts a complex organization as effectively as it does a single person.

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The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. No effort is required for that pattern to emerge. But if you don’t think the poor should starve and the rich should enslave everyone who survives, then we need sustained social action.

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