Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

This sentence, in a 2021 US Federal Reserve document: “The primary role of mainstream economics in our society is to provide an apologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order." - Hildenbrand, 1994. Image: World Inequality Report 2022 @UniteThePoor

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Quoted by@jasonhickel "Those who commit the murders write the reports." - Ida Bae WellsQuoted byThe cheery claims of 'officials' and the policy community that capitalism, despite its 'problems', has global poverty on the run? An accounting fantasy unjustified by the facts, according to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. #unitingtheglobalpoorQuoted by#agrariansharingnetwork @unitethepoor at work. #nofilter #nonuffink #oneshotwonder