Improving QoL: Inequality and Economics

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A community showcasing work helping to alleviate poverty and to improve the quality of life for all. The issue is in fact nonpartisan as most people can relate themselves to enduring the difficulties that come with lack of resources or have known people in their communities who do. Rich a-holes who think they are better than everyone and don't give a damn about others actually aren't the most popular. What ideas do you have for improving quality of life?

Example: If only we could make infinite space work! Then there would no longer be scarcity.

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Good Economics Books (lemmy.world)
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https://michael-hudson.com/books/super-imperialism-the-economic-strategy-of-american-empire/

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6-3 Supreme court stupidity (stack 'em like a slave ship) (homelesslaw.org)
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Have you ever gone days without sleeping? It doesn't make you more productive. Sleep is like water; without it people soon die. So what are the unhoused to do now that the Supreme Court criminalized biological necessities?

Stack them like a slave ship. Build huge warehouses that are going to cost the tax payers to punish people who don't have the money to afford housing. Completely absurd and impractical decision!

What exactly is cruel and unusual if sleep deprivation is not? The CIA uses it as a torture technique. If that is not a definition of cruel and unusual, what is?

The unhoused should concentrate in the cities. There are already too many. The economy isn't going to miraculously rebound. There will be tons of homeless and your paycheck is going to have to be cut to fund the absurdist government.

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Poor People's Campaigns (www.poorpeoplescampaign.org)
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USA

MLK (shot shortly afterwards) https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/poor-peoples-campaign

Huey Long (assassinated and pro-cop) https://www.hueylong.com/programs/share-our-wealth-speech.php

World

Che (assassinated)

Long list for historians. https://nyupress.org/9781583679067/washington-bullets/ Democratically elected govs, etc . . .

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Heterodox Economics (www.heterodoxnews.com)
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Economic analysis and theory

https://www.heterodoxnews.com

http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/en

https://www.ineteconomics.org/

https://renegadeinc.com/

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Democratizing the workplace (www.democracyatwork.info)
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Info about worker cooperatives. Why even have a union (just friendlier management) when the workers themselves can organize and direct their own business?

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$400 a day shelter "jail" industry (www.newschool.edu)
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No matter your politics, everyone should agree that $400 a day shelters are bad economics and are not good for the unhoused (see Robles-Duran). What kind of policies and solutions might you try to end the housing crisis?

Greenwald on poverty solutions in Brazil Libertarianism (42:24 - 1:04:09) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/comedian-and-political-analyst-dave-smith-on-uniparty/id1669610956?i=1000659890058

David Harvey and Miguel Robles-Duran

Profiting from the homeless https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XEduL_PKDKw & https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Sm2pYaK7tCI

https://picturethehomeless.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/PtH_White_paper5.pdf/