Anti Wage-Slavery Pro-Freedom Quotations Of The Week 1434-1436

I returned to the United States. It felt quite a lot like stepping back into that other violent, impoverished world, where anxiety runs high and people are quarrelsome. I had, in fact, come back to the flip side of Afghanistan and Iraq: to what America’s wars have done to America. Where I live now, in the Homeland, there are not enough shelters for the homeless. Most people are either overworked or hurting for jobs; housing is overpriced; hospitals, crowded and understaffed; schools, largely segregated and not so good. Opioid or heroin overdose is a popular form of death; and men in the street threaten women wearing hijab. Did the American soldiers I covered in Afghanistan know they were fighting for this?    

American Capitalism Has Failed Us: We're Overworked, Underemployed and More Powerless than Ever Before

 By Ann Jones / Tom Dispatch

AlerNet
February 7, 2016

 Modest estimates indicate there is $199 billion in Canadian money in offshore tax havens. That amount has grown dramatically as cuts at the CRA were implemented over the past decade. And it doesn't begin to reflect the dark side of an underground trade in hiding billions offshore -- literally laughing all the way to the Swiss bank.
Canada Joins 21st Century Fight against Tax Dodgers
Federal budget earmarks $90 million annually to
tackle evasion. It's about time.
By Dennis Howlett, 24 Mar 2016, TheTyee.ca
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 if we’re going to invent robots that will do our laundry and tidy up the kitchen, then we’re going to have to make sure that whatever replaces capitalism is based on a far more egalitarian distribution of wealth and power—one that no longer contains either the super-rich or the desperately poor willing to do their housework. Only then will technology begin to be marshaled toward human needs. And this is the best reason to break free of the dead hand of the hedge fund managers and the CEOs—to free our fantasies from the screens in which such men have imprisoned them, to let our imaginations once again become a material force in human history.

Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit
DAVID GRAEBER
TheBaffler
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