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@davidgerard "Sell 'em by the six-pack to public pension funds." @ddayen

@angiebaby@mas.to @overholt@glammr.us .... except for the fact that human productivity is essentially unlimited, and is capable of being offered freely, or exchanged fairly and cooperatively, without exploitative extraction by predators. The best human life excludes, as much as possible, interaction with publicly traded, or private equity funded, companies. The only industries which Socialists need to nationalize are those which are required for civil integration .... health, education, housing, power, communications, fresh water, sanitation, and banking .... for essential starters.

@QasimRashid "corporate democrats" ... and the "two party system" ... are permanent lost causes

@passenger Hopefully pension managers are smart enough by now to avoid that trap, .... and aren't corruptly in some complicit role.

@misjavanlaatum @petergleick Human civilizations have rebooted before. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

@Nachtflug -perversely sadistic

@dangillmor@mastodon.social , As I think about this, I realize that all my news sources are already in an .opml list, since I take my news via RSS feedreader. Of course, my needs aren't complete.

@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social Thanks for the poetry. From the 2017 Women's March across the U.S., ... "They thought they'd bury us, not knowing we are seeds." [paraphrased] #WomensHistory

@Clara_Pirx @petergleick >"We’d have to replace the political system – that is, capitalism – on a global scale. Which isn’t possible." Another perspective is that the underlying political/economic system is doomed by its own un-sustainability. Like geologic scale evolution, it will inevitability play itself out. Covid-19 showed us that the global neo-liberal order is the pathogen of the planet. The beauty of human life is our freedom to rationally identify and choose between self-interest and the collective good, by understanding that it is in our personal best long term interest to select for the common good. IF we identify as loving beings expressing the creative forces which generated our biosphere and through that our own being. (This is our only purpose in life) Peace and Love,

@derekheld Thank you, kind soul.

@Daojoan This triggers thinking, ..... if all new development projects were funded only from "crowd sourcing" ..... because there was no surplus of "investment money" seeking profit .....

@pluralistic@mamot.fr some details from an insider .... https://prospect.org/2026/07/09/dangerous-myth-of-flexibility-uber-lyft-gig-economy