@bearspeaks Jim Corbett, in response, speaking to the Quixotic Principle: “To open the way, a cultural breakthrough need not involve masses of people, but must be done decisively by someone"; together with Helen Caldicott: "Where American media goes, so goes the Earth." As such.
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Copy of tweet thread: CEOs on their yachts drinking thousand dollar bottles of champagne getting economic anxiety over the idea of paying their workers like $5 more an hour. Was it Cannes? I forget now. But I do recall the bankers bringing in sex workers in motor launches. Deal-making. QT: · 1/ Trained as an investment banker, I began my working life as a financial journalist in the richest square mile on the face of the planet. My brief? International-capital-markets primary-market syndication, central bank regulation, and sovereign debt.
@AimeTim 2/ I'm a street theologian, avowedly internationalist, aligned with @UniteThePoor Unless you're alert to 'engaged theology' Stateside - spread out among us but beyond the levels of reality well-lit by dominative cultural arbiters - you're unlikely to have reckoned with us, yet.
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet beginning here: 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 Image: “In 2021, after three decades of trade and financial globalization, global inequalities remain extremely pronounced: they are about as great today as they were at the peak of Western imperialism in the early 20th century.” QT The Alston report is the most serious challenge yet to poverty triumphalism, to the political apologias that it has supported, and to the fiction that economies of massive inequality are destroying poverty rather than destroying the poor. @unitethepoor