This is an excellent piece from Joseph Stiglitz.

Everyone should read it.

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    You cannot believe how sick it is to open Lemmy and the first thing you see is a picture of Zuckerberg.

    I hope Carney reintroduces it after these trade talks fail.

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      Carney isn’t going to do any favors. He’s leaning toward austerity measures to pay for the 5% budget pledge for NATO that he was strong armed into accepting and now has acquiesced to the demands of the Broligarchy.

      He’s not a leader, he’s a banker

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        Don’t forget, he’s not just a banker, he was also the vice chair and chair of Brookfield, one of the world’s largest residential real estate landlord, the largest residential landlord in San Francisco, accused of repeatedly violating indigenous rights in multiple countries.

        But hey, I’m absolutely convinced he can fix the housing crisis in Canada!

        He can… As in he knows very well how to, since he was one of the main culprit for years. I will eat my hat if he does though. But hey when I pointed that out during the election I was a Tankie and Trump supporter or something.

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          To be fair, we had to vote for the banker cuz the only realistic alternative was a nazi-handshaking maple maga moron. We picked the best of the shitty options.

          I would have LOVED to see Jagmeet in the big chair, but too much of Canada is too racist to vote for someone in a turban, and the rest were going to vote for PP.

          So ya. Cheney is a fucking banker. But he’s better in every way than PP.

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            But he’s better in some way than PP.

            FIFY, because clearly not in every way. In many ways, as evidenced here, he sucks just as much.

            The issue is that now we’re stuck in the same cycle again of someone who’s going to make thing measurably worse for the average person, while driving the overtone window further right, and thus further drive the rise of the far right. Voting for the lesser evil is how we got to here. The system works as expected.

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              Ya. I don’t disagree. The system has been broken by foreign owned media, social media, and late stage capitalism.