Mastodawn

Shift to domestic sourcing -most impt info in the piece is on wages. It tells us the aver wage at Double A Molding, one of Excel’s dom suppliers, is $21/hr.

“But finding enough workers, even with aver operator pay ~$21/hr, is a constant struggle.”

The aver pay for non-supervisory workers in the prv sector as a whole is $10 higher at $31.06. Even retail workers do somewhat better with an aver pay of $21.44. Min wage would be >$26/hr today...

#Austerity #Oligarcy #USPol
https://cepr.net/publications/trump-wants-your-kids-to-work-for-21-an-hour/

Angela G Apr 10

A fascinating analysis on how #Europe can lessen dependence on the #US.

And those of us in the US can use this sort of thinking to lessen our dependence on the #oligarcy / #broligarcy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_VJmoibRhI

France shows how Europe can survive Trump

YouTube

nemo™ 🇺🇦Mar 22

Sen. Bernie #Sanders & Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez #AOC hold “ #Fighting #Oligarcy ” rally in #Greeley #msnbc #yt

https://youtu.be/TrhoUgEbonY

LIVE: Sen. Bernie Sanders & Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hold “Fighting Oligarcy” rally in Greeley

YouTube

a̸m̵n̵e̴s̴i̶a̸c̷7̷ 👊🇺🇸🔥Feb 18

#meta #zuck #zuckerberg #trump #maga #nazi #coup #junta #oligarcy #technocracy #us #usa
https://www.commondreams.org/news/meta-policies-genocide

Human Rights Experts: Meta's Trump-Friendly Policies Could Be 'Conduit' for 'Genocide' | Common Dreams

"Rather than learning from its reckless contributions to mass violence in countries including Myanmar and Ethiopia, Meta is instead stripping away important protections that were aimed at preventing any recurrence of such harms."

Common Dreams

Nonya Bidniss

Feb 2

"Musk and his minions are not working alone to destroy America. The GOP, Heritage, and many American actors are embedded in foreign autocratic and right-wing populist networks, while billionaires Musk and Thiel (and their muse, Curtis Yarvin, who tells his followers that “democracy is done”) have ambitions on a global scale that hinge on destroying open societies." #coup #oligarcy #corruption https://lucid.substack.com/p/a-new-kind-of-coup-trump-and-musk

A New Kind of Coup: Trump and Musk are Updating the Autocratic Playbook

The assault on our democracy seen through the lens of authoritarian practice

Cherime Jan 16

#oligarcy #democracy

Mark Jan 10

Zuckerberg finally decides to promote political content on #Threads AFTER #Trump has won the election AND while cutting fact-checking at the same time.

#FreedomOfSpeech #Facebook #SocialMedia #Oligarcy #fascism

Ted Johnson Jan 10

On one hand, Meta now permits hate speech, and that's very problematic. On the other hand, Threads has never been more fun.

#SocialMedia #Enshittification #DeleteFacebook #DeleteMeta #Fecesbook #SocialMediaSucks #HateSpeech #Antifascism #fascism #oligarcy #plutocracy #HalfHeartedFanatic

Ted Johnson Jan 8

Will Facebook censor a story about Facebook censoring a story about Facebook censorship?

https://www.404media.co/email/d8f4c3ab-47c8-4408-b896-8e8daf45c2e1/

#SocialMedia #Enshittification #DeleteFacebook #SocialMediaSucks #oligarcy #plutocracy #HalfHeartedFanatic

Facebook Censors Stories About Facebook Censorship

Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.

404 Media

Ted Johnson Jan 8

A reasonable reaction to Zuckerberg's video capitulating to MAGA.

via Mstdn @stroughtonsmith

Further Reading: "Mark Zuckerberg Is a Surrender Monkey"
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-is-a-surrender-monkey

#SocialMedia #Enshittification #DeleteFacebook #Trump #AntiTrump #AntiGOP #AntiMAGA #Republicans #fascism #oligarcy #plutocracy #HalfHeartedFanatic