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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Capitalism. Yay? >=(

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Good Times Bad Times has a good video discussing the Ukraine war as an economic conflict. Ukraine has been trapped in the Moscow-driven Eastern European core, which is riddled with corruption, nepotism, substitution of force for law, and skimming by oligarchs. Dumpism as national policy. As Ukraine westernized, they moved towards freer markets and more liberal and rule-based rather than authoritarian-driven policies. Moscow tried increasingly hamfisted methods of keeping them prisoner to the Moscow system, from election stealing to cultivating destabilizing treason groups and finally to full-on invasion.

I was thinking about how this conflict between authoritarian, far right economics, which privileges the enrichment of elites and connected factions, versus well-regulated, law-based, democratized economics, as a global struggle since the rise of Neoliberalism. As the West betrayed its contract for greater opportunity for their populations, far right populist demagogues were able to thump the tub against Western values and find common cause among the economically abandoned and traditional right wing racist, fundamentalist, and misogynist groups. Of course, these populist leaders invariably create greater inequality by destroying democratic institutions, so they are particularly attractive to the very elites made fat by the giveaways of the Reagan and Thatcher era, and populist parties wind up a con game.

In this view, Putin (and Dump) are the reductio ad absurdum of supply side and the new gilded age, and this war is yet another chapter in the global fight against the Plutes and their Useful Idiot conservaderps.
 
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https://x.com/LisaCullen/status/1703118973191991315?s=20

For those of you who don't want to click on Musks Nazi factory here is the tweet:

Alex told me THE BEAR barely left the restaurant in S1 bc they lacked the budget. Cool. Great show made for no $. But when it became a monster hit for FX, that success should've translated into paychecks for writers and actors. Instead, they're going broke. WE NEED TO FIX THIS
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Alex O'Keefe was one of the writers of The Bear. His tweet was:

I’m on the verge of leaving LA. Can’t afford it anymore. AMPTP refuses to pay up and save Hollywood. Young writers are sacrificing EVERYTHING for this strike. We are not going to accept any deal that concedes our survival. It’s do or die.
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Surely cons who cheer on Republican pols when they target woke corporations like Disney for supposedly forcing the Alphabet Mafia's agenda on kids, can't wait to back the striking UAW workers in their battle against the Woke 3, who are supposedly forcing Biden's EV agenda on all of us.

What's that? They're licking the boots of upper management again? Trumpeting GM management's latest response? Playing at being temporarily embarrassed billionaires? Being gigantic fcking hypocritical a55holes as usual? Ah well. You can't fix stupid.
 
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