What if deficits and taxes are used to hold us hostage and there is an economic model capable of resolving all our issues?
The economic theories administered in the US, Australia, and the UK state a 3.5% to 4.5% unemployment rate is necessary for running an efficient economy. Sitting in high school econ class, even my dull teenage brain couldn’t fathom why an economic system requiring a percentage of people to suffer through unemployment was the ideal method. To wrap my head around the concepts, I took macro and microeconomics in university; consumers, markets, equilibrium, supply, demand, and a plethora of theories with their adjoining equations exhibited society’s behavior as it interacted in a game of Monopoly on steroids. …
Time feels stagnant and nothing changes because we’re always waiting to react.
The somber surreality of life is staved off by dreaming of a future in a perfectly framed portrait, but that future never arrives. Investing in get-rich-gimmicks while living paycheck-to-paycheck to counter the sea of financial obligations leaves little time for planning. Overnight, one day becomes ten years because the indistinguishable days are blurred by the routine of gratification now and stagnant progression.
Time stands still because our existence is an endless rerun of live performances, and the plot hasn’t changed in decades. Day after day, we play the same character, in the same story, with the same ending. A few…
Government spending is the life support Americans and the economy need to survive, but budget deficits are prioritized.
When the financial sector faced starvation and homelessness a $700 billion stimulus package was approved in a week. Increasing the deficit by an additional $539 billion was worth rescuing the banks from despair but contributing to the deficit to save the lives of millions of Americans is somehow considered less vital. Although the US has been in 78 deficits over 91 years, government spending to minimize the hunger, suicides, evictions, health impacts, and loss of American livelihoods still terrifies many politicians.
Negotiations for a stimulus bill held Americans hostage for eight months. The urgency to rescue the economy wasn’t all…
For 90% of Americans, GDP is just a measurement of the Gross Divided Profits.
A billionaire moving her online retail business to a small, impoverished nation with nine citizens, would instantaneously and exponentially increase the nation’s economic wealth. The business operations, production, purchases, and investments would indicate the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is undergoing rapid growth, but the wealth wouldn’t affect the people’s lives unless it was distributed. The billionaire would potentially create service jobs, but the pay would be dismal, the work low skilled, and the income tax deducted by the government would be spent aiding the billionaire’s business in the name of “job creation”.
Eventually, the billionaire’s wealth facilitates power, and…
Scientists develop vaccines, governments create poverty, and democracy is an illusion.
In the eighth month of Covid, requests for food relief reach an all-time high in the United States of America. Food banks in Pennsylvania distributed aid to 2.75 million people within the first three weeks of October and nationwide one in five Americans rely on the provisions. Whilst the Heroes Act is held hostage by the Senate, 54 million financially impacted victims are likely to experience hunger by the end of December. The US government wins the first-place prize for the world’s wealthiest, cruelest country, and the unemployment payments expiring the day after Christmas is the rotten cherry on top…
Middle-class, educated liberals’ culture wars exploit society and obstruct economic redistribution to benefit themselves.
*Racism, classism, gender, and LGBTIQA+ endure significate discrimination and inequality. This article does not advocate silencing minorities.
Creating a utopia is hard work, but the middle-class, enlightened left is doing its best. With an iPhone 12 Pro, the culturally aware scroll through Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram searching for politically incorrect perpetrators. The high-and-mighty scold and shame the immoral public for their cultural ignorance because condescendingly lecturing others will undoubtedly lead to equality. Using their privilege to speak for the voiceless proves the self-entitled, self-serving intellects’ intentions are altruistic — what would minorities do without their number one ally? …
After reading some of your articles and responses, I believe you've seen my anger at the government as a reason to get rid of government? My anger derives from their policies to maintain an economic system ignoring people. The "economy" the government refers to, is the markets controlled by monopolies and the wealthy, but people are the economy and they are left out.
A great reset in my view, is a government working for the people and a great transfer of power.
Believing wages will increase the price of goods is what monopolies want you think.
The 1929 stock market crash confirmed the US economy was in crisis, but it wasn’t the cause of the Great Depression. A Laissez-faire government allowing frivolous bank loans selling the “anyone can be a millionaire” dream, powerful monopolies, and wealth inequality collapsed the economy. Free-market capitalism nearly destroyed the country, but government intervention, reform, and regulation saved it.
Economist John Maynard Keynes and FDR, the “traitor to his class,” identified the issues and implemented the solutions to revive the US. Unfortunately, over the last forty to fifty years, corporate wealth and corrupted politicians weakened FDR’s initiatives. …
Food brings people together, and we need community. Develop a community through veggie patches to create local and global change.
The Australian bushfires evaporated 19 million hectares (46,950,023 acres) of land into smoke. For seven months, an enormous wall of flames devoured rain forests, habitats, bushland, and agricultural fields, but when the fires finally dwindled in March 2020, a new disaster had already begun. As the smoke cleared, Covid appeared, and the country hasn’t had a moment to grieve.
When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid a pandemic, community members developed social media pages within city councils listing Covid…
Generating revenue is our life’s purpose and disengaging from the workforce disconnects us from society because profit is the center of our value system.
In a 2019 climate change research role, I assessed extreme weather and household energy demands by assisting low-income families with rising consumption costs. The project recommenced two years later, and energy-debt is much worse in 2021. Retirees, single women, women with children, immigrants, and grandparents raising grandchildren continue to be the most stressed. Covid’s economic impact skews the stats, but energy consumption and climate change are just the tips of the iceberg.
Within our neighborhoods, thousands…
Corinne Davis
Is this the world you would have created?
