since I am in SUCH a good mood and am eyeing the society sized flamethrower I figured I would spread the joy.

thai article about our joyous LlM overlords

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/block-lays-off-40-of-workforce-as-it-goes-all-in-on-ai-tools/

led me here

#Citibank and their future strategy

https://www.scribd.com/document/403328612/Plutonomy-Memo-by-Citigroup

enjoy TIL #Plutonomy

Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools

CEO says "most companies are late" to realize how much technology will affect employment.

Ars Technica

“circular economy” is to #capitalism what inbred, incestuous marriages are to Hapsburg-wannabe monarchies

#economics #plutonomy #inbreeding #monarchies

prospect.org/2025/12/01/p... “So, a lot of the ingenuity in the economy gets directed to things that we would think of as less than essential.” - Robert Frank Down w/ the #plutocracy #plutonomy #oligarchy #plutocrats #oligarchs #billionaires #humanrights #justice #democracy

Selling the Poor on Spending L...
Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich

How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class.

The American Prospect

https://prospect.org/2025/12/01/premiumization-plutonomy-middle-class-spending-gilded-age/

“So, a lot of the ingenuity in the economy gets directed to things that we would think of as less than essential.” - Robert Frank

Down w/ the #plutocracy #plutonomy #oligarchy #plutocrats #oligarchs #billionaires

#humanrights #justice #democracy

Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich

How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class.

The American Prospect

Oh, joy... 😔

This Bank¹⁾ Predicted Everything 20 Years Ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHJWmyS_1W0 #zeitgeist #watching📺

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¹⁾ Citigroup October 16, 2005 #report📄 - #Plutonomy: Buying Luxury, Explaining Global Imbalances

This Bank Predicted Everything 20 Years Ago

YouTube

2010: Bill Moyers signs off his last broadcast with an editorial discussion on why plutocracy and democracy don't mix.

https://youtu.be/FSoglDcRbAg

#BillMoyers #Plutocracy #USpol #Plutonomy

Bill Moyers on Plutonomy

YouTube

'£260 billion *a day* is lost to #TaxEvasion & #TaxAvoidance combined. That's over 260 times #BenefitFraud'

Why are left-wing politicians unable to drill these facts with all the evidence to support them until they're etched in voters' brains?

#Plutocracy #Plutonomy #UKLabour #ClassWar #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2013/09/13/benefit-errors-cost-1-million-a-day-tax-avoidance-and-evasion-cost-260-million-a-day/

The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future

@Lana ...and also "today's young adults can't afford to eat out as much as their parents did".

Love how they find a way to spin that as some kind of indulgence or excess. #Plutonomy #Plutonomedia

🗣️ 📣 THIS IS EVIL

this is the kind of #greenwashing bullshit we need to push back.

75 COMPANIES, sustained by a network of less than 3,000 billionaires, are responsible for the #ClimateCrisis.

the globalized #plutonomy and their corporate fiefdoms are the real enemy.

not working class people visiting the families they had to leave behind thanks to #globalization decimating their local economies.

this hike in air travel is just greenwashed 'externalities'.

DO NOT FALL FOR IT!

Volcano Gods Demand Workers

... 30% unemployment means that for every worker who dies on the job, ten more will apply to take their place. ...

https://pluralistic.net/2020/05/08/volcano-gods/#reopening

#covid19 #CoryDoctorow #Plutonomy #inequality #moloch #unemployment #quarantine #commonweal #deathcult #capitalism

Pluralistic: 08 May 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow