Church of Jeff
There are some truths that when you think about them, they can inform your actions. The biggest one is that there is enough food that no human should go hungry. There are enough resources so that everyone can have shelter. The fact that we have hunger and homelessness is a direct result of billionaires and the lack of will to fix distribution of the food and houses. It is a direct result of greed. -> more #NoBillionaires #hunger #homelessness #taxbillionaires
Nov 4, 2023 at 10:51pmWeb
Show threadChurch of JeffNov 4, 2023
-> This is why I have rage against ANYONE AND EVERYONE that defends billionaires and prevents the change needed to fix this issue. Those people stand in the way of progress and contribute to human death and extend human suffering. There is no better definition of evil than that.
It is morally bankrupt to think you’re on some moral high ground to argue any stance when people are starving and sleeping in the streets. #nobillionaires #taxbillionaires #hunger #homelessness
Show threadKevin Karhan Nov 4, 2023

@jeffowski EXACTLY!

We need to #AbolishCapitalism before it abolishes Humanity and we get some "#Elysium" - esque #Dystopia ...

Show threadDeja LynnJul 11, 2024
@kkarhan @jeffowski
Show threadVulcanTourist [MOVED]Feb 4, 2024

@jeffowski

This article carefully describes the mindset and behavior of "those people". We all know them, but our tolerant society ties our hands and the recidivism rate for "those people" is exceptionally high.

Show threadAnnietimeMay 20, 2024
@jeffowski YES.
Show threadJanisJun 27, 2024
@jeffowski
This is a hard listen, but it's a pair of perspectives worth hearing. On Point, How the IRS went soft on the ultrawealthy and corporations https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/prfx.byspotify.com/e/chrt.fm/track/284E6C/traffic.megaphone.fm/BUR1711165970.mp3
Show threadPer Haps ✅✔✓☑Jul 13, 2024
@janisf Just curious if the IRS podcast you linked to has a transcript?
Show threadJanisJul 13, 2024
@perhaps391 Yeah, it's here: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/06/24/how-the-irs-went-soft-on-the-ultrawealthy-and-corporations
How the IRS went soft on the ultrawealthy and corporations | On Point

A former IRS agent says the agency gives a pass to corporate tax cheats and the super rich when investigating possible tax crimes.

WBUR
Show threadJeffy 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦 ❤️🇱🇺Sep 1, 2024

@jeffowski

I think of these sorts of things whenever I see those stock video clips of suburban streets. House after house after house, each with a 2 or 3 car garage.

Multiply that through by all the houses in this country with those garages. Cars have better housing stock than people.

Show threadChurch of JeffSep 1, 2024
@godofbiscuits -- There are more churches in the US than foster kids. If every church simply took care of one foster kid and two homeless people there would be NO FOSTER KIDS AND NO HOMELESS PEOPLE.
It's way worse than you think.
Show threadMasterMischiefDec 19, 2024

@jeffowski @godofbiscuits
I was going to ask you for links, but decided I could do my own research. Just sharing for anyone else curious.

https://hirr.hartfordinternational.edu/fast-facts-on-american-religion/

https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness/#:~:text=A%20record-high%20653%2C104%20people,Homelessness%20for%20the%20First%20Time.

Fast Facts on American Religion - Hartford Institute

Read answers to frequently asked questions about American religion, including facts about clergy, congregations, megachurches, and mosques.

Hartford Institute for Religious Research
Show threadMasterMischiefDec 19, 2024
@jeffowski @godofbiscuits
Christian nation my ass.
Show threadWesDymSep 11, 2025

@jeffowski I always add that while this is inherently oppositional towards obscene wealth, it's like the old adage (however often misused), "Hate the sin, love the sinner": It opposes the WEALTH as the problem. In the end, it's good for them, too, not just everyone else. Obscene wealth seems to cause obvious and serious mental health problems that can't be good for anyone.

I mention that to help frame it as a "good for EVERYONE" argument.

Show threadAndi89S4051Dec 5, 2023
@jeffowski
Phrases billionairs say: there is no rich without the poor. 😂
(What are the rich good for?)
Show threadCoolBlenderKittenDec 15, 2023
@jeffowski
Exactly. And I don't understand why we as a society accept this
#EatTheRich
Show threadSteve Oh 🇺🇸💙✊🟰🗽🇺🇦Jan 6, 2024
@jeffowski There really needs to be operational definitions of Greed, and laws for the taxation and punishment thereof.
Show threadfloydgumpJan 11, 2024
@jeffowski Indeed,they have rigged the system to benefit themselves and they are using extremism to keep it that way.
Show threadThisPearlFeb 1, 2024
@jeffowski
Show threadBilly SmithFeb 4, 2024

@jeffowski

It's not just taking place right now.

It's been like this since the 1850's.

That's how long we as a species have been technologically capable of creating a more equitable world.

Show threadGodfrey642Mar 8, 2024

@jeffowski
Yep.

CAPITALISM.

Make a much money as you can using any and all means available (slavery, fraud, corruption..) Nothing and nobody matters as much as money.

Show threadBridgetApr 30, 2024
@jeffowski we're in a post scarcity world, we just refuse to collectively act like it
Show threadThe RighteouslyILFJul 8, 2024

@BridgetClinch @jeffowski

Mind blowing truth.

As a former economist, I assure you other economists will not be open to the idea of a post scarcity world because it renders their complex theories worthless and undermines the elegantly sophisticated application of stochastic partial differential equations to random economic data to explain nothing.

#NoBillionaires
#TaxTheFuckers

Show threadKinene⭐🐻May 20, 2024

@jeffowski And the billionaires forget that they, too. are mortal (no matter what they think). Death is the great equalizer.

All the wealth on the planet cannot bring back the dead.

When you die, you don't get to take anything with you.

True wealth is internal.

Show threadJanisJun 27, 2024

@jeffowski
I'm not sure it's greed, directly. It's a sense of supremacy. Whether the rich feel like they deserve it, they're good people for striving for it, or are floating along in a numb/ignorant state, they end up feeling like they are there because they can handle that wealth better than the "proven" poor.

In any case, it's not doing the rest of us any good to call it greed, either with the vitriol on our end, or the digust and defenses it throws up on the other.

Show threadJanisJun 27, 2024
@jeffowski
Not that I've figured out a more effective way to couch it....
Show threadCyJul 13, 2024
I wish that we could feed and shelter everyone, but that's setting yourself up to be sealioned into oblivion. They'll try to say it's impossible to keep everyone fed, because of disease, and calamity, and supply chain failures, and they will be right. But we have to remember that the rent extraction makes things even worse on top of the already necessary suffering. More people, vastly more people, orders of magnitude more people are suffering than necessary.

Those swine will try to equivocate accidents to their needless, entitled, elitist murder of their fellow man. We must not let them frame the goal as impossible, so I don't really like to talk about it in terms of feeding everyone, or ending suffering. Minimizing suffering, strengthening community, empowering people to live their best lives.
Show threadWayne WernerJul 17, 2024

@jeffowski according to https://www.quora.com/How-many-acres-can-one-person-farm?top_ans=278151323 Peter Kaye "had 530 acres and had absolutely no problems doing everything myself. At the busiest times I plowed all night to get the soil ready for planting, as long as you have the right machinery it’s a lot of work but it can be done."

So... yeah - there's no effing reason anyone, ever, should be hungry (unless they want to be)

How many acres can one person farm?

Answer (1 of 29): It depends on whether you consider “one person” to mean ONE person doing everything, or one person running the farm, doing most of the actual hands on work but hiring out some work at busy times such as planting and harvest. Under ideal conditions one man with big new equipment...

Quora
Show threadChurch of JeffJul 17, 2024
@ketmorco — so there is enough suitable land for everyone on the planet to have 530 acres to use? And how much is going to be left for wildlife?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post reply with so much naivety and privilege rolled together.
Show threadWayne WernerJul 17, 2024

@jeffowski you completely misunderstood the point - we have the technology such that a single person can farm over 500 acres, which is enough to provide food for ??? people.

But we don't do that, because billionaires.

Show threadDavid Hofmann 🏳️‍🌈Sep 8, 2024
@jeffowski
Can you please stop boosting your own posts regularly
Show threadclimate voter/degrowthistSep 8, 2024
@jeffowski I think that is true but am afraid we are headed towards a day where there is simply not enough food because of hot weather and related issues.
Show threadMcCrankyfaceNov 14, 2024
@jeffowski yeah, what I've been saying for a while is that we do not have a resource scarcity problem; we have a resource distribution problem.
Show threadpurplepearJan 9, 2025

@jeffowski

We may also consider that too few are working to change from being consumers to producers.

Show threadDJ_2280Jan 17, 2025

@jeffowski

HERE'S HOPING ORANGE-FACED SOAB AND HIS FELLOW ENABLER
BILLIONAIRES WILL FALL ON THEIR FACES. LONG-LIVE DEMOCRACY TO FIGHT BACK THE EVIL ONES.