[This is the final instalment of the series on ‘Life After Capitalism – Manifesto of Hope’. Earlier parts can be accessed Part I here, Part II here and Part III here.] The Employment Paradigm In this final instalment of the series, I want to discuss the vexed question of employment and what can be … Continue reading Beyond the ‘Employment’ Paradigm and Life After Capitalism – Manifesto of Hope IV →
My sister Emma Redmond is my guest this week. We started off the first hour by discussing the rise of involuntary celibates, commonly known as incels. We talked about their belief system and world view, as well as their insular community online. Emma and I addressed incels intense misogyny and vilification of the “Stacys” and “Beckys” of the world. Later we touched on Jordan Peterson and our theory that he is an incel that made it out of the community. We also talked about the disturbing trend of suicide within the incel community.
There’s nothing at all to recommend working in a sweatshop as a lifestyle. Unless it is better than all of your other opportunities. In fact, this kind of work has raised the Chinese manufacturing wage from $1,000 a year to $7,000 in under two decades. That is the largest diminution in poverty in the history of our species.
Strange as it sounds, there are places “where sweatshops are a dream” offering life-transforming wages. Particularly for women. So can we stop with the stigma against factory work?
It is thanks to economic liberalization and so-called capitalist greed that a generation of women have been given the opportunity to change their fate, take hold of their own destinies and make their own decisions. Globalization didn’t imprison them in sweatshops, it set them free.
Until a sound institutional framework is established in Haiti, there is no quantity of aid dollars that can achieve meaningful economic development.
Citizen Trump, chorus of anger and concert control + this day in history w/the kinetoscope and our song of the day by Black Pistol Fire on your Morning Monarchy for May 20, 2016.
This week on GNNW: BREAKING NEWS! Making love wards off dementia; Garlic cures bacterial infections; Marijuana is safer than cigarettes and alcohol.
This week on GNNW: BREAKING NEWS! Making love wards off dementia; Garlic cures bacterial infections; Marijuana is safer than cigarettes and alcohol.
