The worst form of addiction that this country now faces is the greed of the oligarchy.
April 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
#SmaugLogic #OOCG #OutOfControlGreed
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#FairShare for #CreatingABetterWorld
#SharedFacts #TimeBinding #GoodPolicy
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#FairShare for #CreatingABetterWorld
#SharedFacts #TimeBinding #GoodPolicy
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
January 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
#SmaugLogic #OOCG #LiesAreViruses
#CommunityProsperity #PersonalNetworks #TransitiveTrust #SharedFacts #EducationIsTheVaccine
#CommunityProsperity #PersonalNetworks #TransitiveTrust #SharedFacts #EducationIsTheVaccine
January 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Greed is a mental illness. The people who are stealing our democracy are mentally ill.
February 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
July 30, 2024 at 11:18 PM
#SharedFacts about #UnfairTaxation
#OOCG #OutOfControlGreed
#SmaugLogic #HoardingWealth
Making everyone else poorer
#OOCG #OutOfControlGreed
#SmaugLogic #HoardingWealth
Making everyone else poorer
Effective tax rates before and after the Trump tax law:
Verizon
Before: 21%
After: 8%
Walmart
Before: 31%
After: 17%
AT&T
Before: 13%
After: 3%
Walt Disney
Before: 26%
After: 8%
FedEx
Before: 18%
After: 1%
This is what a corporate giveaway looks like.
Verizon
Before: 21%
After: 8%
Walmart
Before: 31%
After: 17%
AT&T
Before: 13%
After: 3%
Walt Disney
Before: 26%
After: 8%
FedEx
Before: 18%
After: 1%
This is what a corporate giveaway looks like.
October 21, 2024 at 4:09 PM
#SharedFacts about #UnfairTaxation
#OOCG #OutOfControlGreed
#SmaugLogic #HoardingWealth
Making everyone else poorer
#OOCG #OutOfControlGreed
#SmaugLogic #HoardingWealth
Making everyone else poorer
#SharedFacts about #CashHoarding #SmaugLogic piles of money being wasted; should be circulating #HelicalEconomics
#Tax #FairShare to invest in #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome for #CommunityProsperity including #TrickleUp plenty of profits
#Tax #FairShare to invest in #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome for #CommunityProsperity including #TrickleUp plenty of profits
Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind?
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains
December 13, 2024 at 12:42 AM
#SharedFacts about #CashHoarding #SmaugLogic piles of money being wasted; should be circulating #HelicalEconomics
#Tax #FairShare to invest in #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome for #CommunityProsperity including #TrickleUp plenty of profits
#Tax #FairShare to invest in #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome for #CommunityProsperity including #TrickleUp plenty of profits
#SmaugLogic
Instead of calling them billionaires let’s call them money hoarders and make condescending TV shows about helping them get over their problem.
October 1, 2023 at 10:29 PM
#SmaugLogic
May 24, 2024 at 4:03 PM
One of the things I still don’t understand is how these tech bros can be pro-technology and anti science.
November 28, 2024 at 9:10 PM
Why is Trump doing this stuff? Hint: Think 💵 and 💪.
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
What you need to know about Trump’s tariffs and the rest of Trump’s madness
The art of the deal, with him as dealer
open.substack.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The primary purpose of money is to enable beneficial transactions, i.e. #MMT #ModernMonetaryTheory
#SmaugLogic #OOCG #OutOfControlGreed has gained power, impoverishing our society
#SharedFacts #SharedConcepts #HumanReasoning for #CommunityProsperity
#OnePlanet #HelicalEconomics
#SmaugLogic #OOCG #OutOfControlGreed has gained power, impoverishing our society
#SharedFacts #SharedConcepts #HumanReasoning for #CommunityProsperity
#OnePlanet #HelicalEconomics
March 12, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The primary purpose of money is to enable beneficial transactions, i.e. #MMT #ModernMonetaryTheory
#SmaugLogic #OOCG #OutOfControlGreed has gained power, impoverishing our society
#SharedFacts #SharedConcepts #HumanReasoning for #CommunityProsperity
#OnePlanet #HelicalEconomics
#SmaugLogic #OOCG #OutOfControlGreed has gained power, impoverishing our society
#SharedFacts #SharedConcepts #HumanReasoning for #CommunityProsperity
#OnePlanet #HelicalEconomics
All predicted back then, by both philosophies:
#SmaugLogic => more #PowerAndMoney
#CommunityProsperity => more #HarmsAndDeaths
#TimeBinding #SharedFacts for #HumanReasoning #CollectiveBehavior
#SmaugLogic => more #PowerAndMoney
#CommunityProsperity => more #HarmsAndDeaths
#TimeBinding #SharedFacts for #HumanReasoning #CollectiveBehavior
Citizens United was the starting place that led us to where we are today: an American oligarchy. Our forefathers never intended this! As a patriot you cannot allow billionaires to take over our country!
Please read this excellent brief about the 2024 election.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Please read this excellent brief about the 2024 election.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Fifteen Years Later, Citizens United Defined the 2024 Election
The influence of wealthy donors and dark money was unprecedented. Much of it would have been illegal before the Supreme Court swept away long-established campaign finance rules.
www.brennancenter.org
January 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
All predicted back then, by both philosophies:
#SmaugLogic => more #PowerAndMoney
#CommunityProsperity => more #HarmsAndDeaths
#TimeBinding #SharedFacts for #HumanReasoning #CollectiveBehavior
#SmaugLogic => more #PowerAndMoney
#CommunityProsperity => more #HarmsAndDeaths
#TimeBinding #SharedFacts for #HumanReasoning #CollectiveBehavior
#OOCG #OutOfControlGreed #SmaugLogic
#PoliticalGameTheory #LiesFearHate
#ComputationalSociology #EnergyNetworkScience
#GeneralSemantics
#PoliticalGameTheory #LiesFearHate
#ComputationalSociology #EnergyNetworkScience
#GeneralSemantics
You could be right but I don't see this pattern
repeated in Nature as it would endanger
survival.
Maybe when humans discovered fire,
they were so resource rich that doing stupid things
did not have the impact on survival that it would
normally have.
Certainly O&G has amplified our stupidity!
repeated in Nature as it would endanger
survival.
Maybe when humans discovered fire,
they were so resource rich that doing stupid things
did not have the impact on survival that it would
normally have.
Certainly O&G has amplified our stupidity!
August 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
January 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The primary purpose of money is to enable beneficial transactions, i.e. #MMT #ModernMonetaryTheory
#SmaugLogic #OOCG #OutOfControlGreed has gained power, impoverishing our society
#SharedFacts #SharedConcepts #HumanReasoning for #CommunityProsperity
#SmaugLogic #OOCG #OutOfControlGreed has gained power, impoverishing our society
#SharedFacts #SharedConcepts #HumanReasoning for #CommunityProsperity
March 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The primary purpose of money is to enable beneficial transactions, i.e. #MMT #ModernMonetaryTheory
#SmaugLogic #OOCG #OutOfControlGreed has gained power, impoverishing our society
#SharedFacts #SharedConcepts #HumanReasoning for #CommunityProsperity
#SmaugLogic #OOCG #OutOfControlGreed has gained power, impoverishing our society
#SharedFacts #SharedConcepts #HumanReasoning for #CommunityProsperity
#SmaugLogic #CashHoarding
#CommunityPoverty
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#FairShare #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome
#CommunityProsperity
#CommunityPoverty
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#FairShare #UBI #UniversalBasicIncome
#CommunityProsperity
Money can and does buy happiness.
A lot of the problems we face are directly because of a lack of money.
"But Bryoche, there are rich people who are unhappy!"
People who hoard wealth only ever want to hoard more of it. At some point, money is all that makes them happy.
I said what I said.
A lot of the problems we face are directly because of a lack of money.
"But Bryoche, there are rich people who are unhappy!"
People who hoard wealth only ever want to hoard more of it. At some point, money is all that makes them happy.
I said what I said.
November 19, 2023 at 8:31 PM
w/U.S.'s support withheld, Putin can win this mo. or next. Allies no longer trust our military support. Europe & U.S. weakened. Russian, Iranian, N. Korean axis ascends. China ascends. Taiwan? If Trump wins, U.S. joins evil axis w/Russ & perhaps its allies. All so they can defeat Biden, own libs.
December 14, 2023 at 4:50 PM
The more money you have the less balls you have
May 3, 2025 at 12:36 AM
what is clear and what has been clear is that these folks will never have enough. there will never be enough power or adoration or money or really anything. never enough.
MAGA just figured out that the billionaire class is in on the grift
December 26, 2024 at 11:27 PM
#FossilFuelWealth #SmaugLogic 100 million barrels per day @$50 is $5 billion daily revenue. Each day of delay ...
This is why the line, "the energy transition is unstoppable because renewables are cheaper than fossils," drives me insane.
It sounds smart, like Econ-Speak, but it is wrong.
It ignores that politics trumps (ahem) economics, and we're now being ruled by fossil-fuel interests.
It sounds smart, like Econ-Speak, but it is wrong.
It ignores that politics trumps (ahem) economics, and we're now being ruled by fossil-fuel interests.
My latest: From Arizona to Texas, an anti-renewables fever is gripping GOP state legislatures as the industry grows, and several states appear on the cusp of significantly restricting solar or wind development as soon as this year.
cc @heatmap.news
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
cc @heatmap.news
heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...
March 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
#FossilFuelWealth #SmaugLogic 100 million barrels per day @$50 is $5 billion daily revenue. Each day of delay ...
I would say they're only good for private equity investors. There's a term for what they do: vampire capitalism.
August 3, 2024 at 2:06 AM
richest country in the world, this should not be happening since we were to be different. So how come it is? ... 2
January 8, 2024 at 9:46 PM
#OOCG #SmaugLogic #CyclesOfAbuse
instead, we need:
#FairShare #ProLifeCourse investments in people for #CommunityProsperity
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome driving #HelicalEconomics benefitting everyone
Organized-measured with #EnergyNetworkScience guiding #GoodPolicy and results-based #Improvement
instead, we need:
#FairShare #ProLifeCourse investments in people for #CommunityProsperity
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome driving #HelicalEconomics benefitting everyone
Organized-measured with #EnergyNetworkScience guiding #GoodPolicy and results-based #Improvement
September 21, 2026 at 2:44 AM
#OOCG #SmaugLogic #CyclesOfAbuse
instead, we need:
#FairShare #ProLifeCourse investments in people for #CommunityProsperity
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome driving #HelicalEconomics benefitting everyone
Organized-measured with #EnergyNetworkScience guiding #GoodPolicy and results-based #Improvement
instead, we need:
#FairShare #ProLifeCourse investments in people for #CommunityProsperity
#UBI #UniversalBasicIncome driving #HelicalEconomics benefitting everyone
Organized-measured with #EnergyNetworkScience guiding #GoodPolicy and results-based #Improvement