@tlanderso

“A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.”

 New York
Joined May 2013
  • Tweets48.9K
  • Following960
  • Followers1.5K
9.8KMedia
During the French Revolution you had people calling out of the 1st and 2nd estate not to reform the system but because the people calling them out wanted to be the new 1st & 2nd estate living at the expense of the 3rd estate.
1
1
584
1
1
229
So you have say these billionaires & trillionaires their $ is only powerful in a flow and not a stock economy. If people own productive capital & don't have to trade for subsistence & only trade their economic surplus, $ has no leverage over them
2
2
538
Globalization was planning the global economy to be a flow economy & not a stock economy. Oil producers import manufactured goods & food, food producers oil and manufactured goods, manufacturers oil and food, so 3 way flow subsistence economy.
1
1
5
302
61
The input/output token w/ LLMs was intended to be implemented at a Gabelle salt tax system. You find an essential input like salt to preserve food to put all the taxes on the 3rd estate while 1st & 2nd estate collects unimproved land rents on the 3rd estate doing productive labor
1
1
5
251
more replies
Oil was the enforceable Gabelle Salt Tax of the 20th Century making the 3rd estate do all the productive work & pay all the tax while the 1st & 2nd estate collects economic rents.
1
58
30
"He "John Ruskin" hit Oxford like an earthquake, not so much because he talked about fine arts, but because he talked also about the empire and England’s downtrodden masses, and above all because he talked about all three of these things as moral issues"
1
4
14
1,103
more replies
He told them that they were the possessors of a magnificent tradition of education, beauty, rule of law, freedom, decency, and self-discipline but that this tradition could not be saved, and did not deserve to be saved, unless it could be extended to the lower classes in England
1
2
120
If this precious tradition were not extended to these two great majorities, the minority of upper-class Englishmen would ultimately be submerged by these majorities and the tradition lost. To prevent this, the tradition must be extended to the masses and to the empire.
5
96
Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.
3
2
24
1,659
The culture industry doesn't just entertain you — it makes you complicit in your own domination by giving you just enough satisfaction to never question the structure.
2
2
18
1,424
They have change progressive to be race, gender, sexuality instead of economic progressive like the US's founding. Henry Carey & Lincoln spoke constantly about: labor vs capital, preventing wealth concentration, spreading productive assets, broad prosperity, economic independence
7
2
1
32
3,480
The definition of “progressive” was intentionally changed to remove its economic content.
1
4
23
1,702
People on OPT don't cost employers social security, medicare or unemployment insurance like American citizens do. So it's really slimy what they did.
1
1
13
1,071
H1B workers pay Unemployment Insurance but don't collect benefits so this is extra tax revenue.
1
8
780
In Washington state employers using OPT save $3000 on Unemployment Insurance in addiction to the savings on not paying social security or medicare.
1
9
546
Load more