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  • That is outrageous. US telecom companies need to be nationalized or burned down.

  • What are your favorite lemmy communities?

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  • Good effort, bot.

  • What are your favorite lemmy communities?

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  • Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town

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  • It's interesting that the one posted later has more engagement.

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  • Doesn't CRPG stand for classic roleplaying game?

  • BreadTube - Lemmy.world

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  • BreadTube - Lemmy.world

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  • Not necessarily. Content could be related to philosophy, history, economics, art, literature, or other fields of discourse.

  • BreadTube - Lemmy.world

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  • It is a community for sharing and discussion of any left video content and ideas. So, if you can make or find content with a left perspective that focuses on bread, sure! But the name is actually in reference to left author Peter Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread. But, I mean, bread is good, too.

  • BreadTube - A community to share and discuss left videos.

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  • Thanks and welcome, comrade!

  • World’s richest people added $852 billion to their fortunes in the first half of 2023

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  • Welcome to the revolution.

  • Why It Seems Everything We Knew About the Global Economy Is No Longer True

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  • It's a decent article, but vague and lacking punch. The only through line is uncertainty. I want to see more articles like this and other signs that mainstream neoliberal ideology is faltering and crashing. Let's move that general sense when people consider the dominant economic order from uncertainty about its effectiveness and value to certainy about its real and irreconcilable contradictions and failings.

  • What do the wealthy have now that will roll down to the rest of in the next 10 years?

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  • Their heads, if we play our cards right.

  • BreadTube - A community to share and discuss left videos.

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  • Going to try to keep it that way. ✌️

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  • Super-rich warned of ‘pitchforks and torches’ unless they tackle inequality

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  • Clare Woodcraft, a fellow at the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Cambridge, said wealthy people’s philanthropic efforts had a “bad reputation” because the industry was “poorly understood, poorly executed and poorly regulated”.

    “There is often, unfortunately, too much focus on the passion behind philanthropy and the feelgood factor and not the actual need,” said Woodcraft, who works as an adviser to the super-rich. “Philanthropists are all too keen to jump in when they surmise that there might be a need, without actually having the data.” Clare Woodcraft, second from the right, is a fellow at the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Cambridge. Clare Woodcraft, second from the right, is a fellow at the Centre for Strategic Philanthropy at the University of Cambridge. Photograph: Aidan Synnott

    She said many rich people wanted to set up their own educational or health foundations without checking whether there was a need or an existing charity or government-funded programme working to address the issue.

    “I still see way too often family offices that come to me and say: ‘We want to do education, we want to set up a foundation and we want to do it in market X’,” she said.

    Woodcraft said in these cases she would ask the family for their rationale, only for them to reply: “It doesn’t matter. Let’s just get some quick wins, let’s get the money out there.

    “That is the challenge. We need to step back, and have a clear methodology for investing philanthropic capital, because that’s how you’re going to maximise impact and hence mitigate some of the risks of reputational damage.”

    Clare Woodcraft seems to think that philanthropy is the solution to inequality, but individuals helping in ways that they want is just giving them more power to decide the fates of the vast majority of people. Systemic change is needed to take power away from the bourgeoisie and give it to the masses to decide their own economic futures.

  • Terrible Coworkers

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  • Workers taking smoke breaks is fine. Anything that gives workers more breaks is good. You can takethose breaks too. Just tell them its a smoke break. If management says anything, tell them you have just as much need for it as anyone who smokes. Don't get mad at your fellow workers. Get mad at the employer.

  • the API changes occur tomorrow, gentlemen, it's been an honor (inb4 Lemmy completely crashes)

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  • Agreed. It's a breath of fresh air from the Reddit mileu, which has seemed to have grown so stale, predictable, and hostile over the years.

  • Google tightens the screws on YouTube ad blockers: three attempts and the video player will be blocked

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  • I will never be subjected to ads and I will never pay for YouTube. Give me a cut of all the money you generate off my data, then we can talk further.

  • Sacked teacher vows to defend 20 years of absence - BBC News

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  • I'd love to tell you all about why I missed 20 years of work, but I'm at the beach right now.