Thursday, April 28, 2022

Student debt might be only the beginning

I'm beginning to think there may be a solution to MS(E&M).  Krystal and Saagar could become a force congealing from below funded by users not by capital.  It might interrupt the smooth flow  of advertising that is the Main Stream Media and their Elite rulers ( Chomsky et al). Will people pay to  hear the truth from sources they can trust.  Today seemed filled with hope.  At least, enough to push Ukraine out of my mind.

Today seemed cheerful - with Ukraine gone from the world, if only.

It begin with a segment highlighting Elon Musk, the iconic billionaire, and moving on to family wealth and it's influence.  We see the billionaire class not as an evil enemy, but as a conglomerate constructed to shield its most nefarious members from the scrutiny they require.  It is thus the monetized value of profits not reinvested in the commons from which they were extracted.  price paid by earnings on stored capital  inherited, rather than returned to the commons through legal shenanigans.  

The billionaire class - if we measure it by total wealth, is not Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.  They are the poster boys.  They have done things we admire.  They are vastly under-represented in the world of wealth.

Student Debt - Bernie must run.  He is our hope.

Financial Fraud uncovered - sigh -

Some is too funny. 


and at first  first, you want to think how nasty the world that spawned his is, that he can be ignored in it.

Thing I think that make me wonder.

Today, in the basement laundry of the building where I live, I met a nameless woman who has done wash there since 1978.  We bemoaned the state of the machines. and as the elevator rose shared a brief ride together.  

In Edinburgh the public drying rooms were a source for social improvement.  

Today the poor wash their close together, the rich apart.

 Capital opens with

The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as “an immense accumulation of commodities,”[1] its unit being a single commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a commodity.  

Which is a rather amazing sentence.