Tim Goodacre - Writer

porque no los dos 😶‍🌫️

It's what happens when right-wing electoral funders (aka the billionaires) hedge their bets and fund both major parties

Trickle up economics: Trillions shifted from bottom 90% to richest 1% in historic wealth transfer New analysis suggests decades of policy choices have driven a $79 trillion shift in wealth from working Americans to the richest households.

From @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social

Those who have read me know that I think the "trickle-down effect" is laughably misnamed

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Bean soup theory

That is a wild way to distribute pharmaceuticals

It’s almost like Putin and Netanyahu control our foreign policy.

We seriously need to start including Basic Income on lists like these.

Thinking about writing a small piece on how Basic Income can undermine the fertile neoliberal soil for the far-right - economic insecurity, welfare contempt etc.

Your weekend read 👇

Some dystopian crap right here. One for @quinnslobodian.com #CrackupCapitalism

Ireland's basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck | Caelainn Hogan A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a month for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery, asks writer Caelainn Hogan

Ireland's basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck | Caelainn Hogan

Yes. This is transparently the plan. It is a destructive and unconstitutional plan. And it can be stopped. It can even be turned into an electoral issue that hurts Trump. But only if we face this now.

"The Spirit Level" was a big "WOW" moment for me when I first read it back in 2011. More relevant now than ever

Hi from Australia. We have a system here of preferential voting (I think people in the US know this as instantaneous run-offs or something). It works well. You rank the candidates - that is your vote. If your first candidate doesn't get a majority, your second candidate comes into play and so on...

They tried that in the last election. Went well for them...

My copy arrived yesterday. It'll get a high priority in my convoluted TBR system

@indigopuma.bsky.social

(Speaking from abroad) The Dems, on average are centre-right. Which is what we used to call "conservative"

Some green-shoot discussion about Basic Income, which is massively under-discussed here in Australia
#auspol

I like this, as a well-defined subset of kakistocracy

We urgently need to bring Basic Income into Australia's Overton Window - it is a long way outside at the moment, and it will be very hard with our current media landscape. I'm thinking a lot at the moment about how it can fight against the far-right by reducing economic insecurity.

Ha-Joon Chang is an awesome debunker of orthodox economics. Read him. Watch him.

Elizabeth Anderson is one of my fave current political philosophers. I read this about 10 years back, and it seriously influenced my arguments about how employment relationships can erode democratic norms and promote the right.

Highly recommended.

Cyborg conservatism is a hell of a drug

I miss the days when satire was a distinct thing

Wait - Karl Marx and Catholicism? 😂 If only, he'd embraced liberation theology

How the Left Moved to the Right In my previous article, Neoliberalism and the New Fascism, I made an extended argument that over the last half century neoliberal politics has created an intense concentration of wealth in the bill…

New article looking at how old left parties became right-wing parties, and what it means for new left politicians like Zack Polanski and Zohran Mamdani.
Enjoy!

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