Capitalism

Capitalism

Method to Produce Safer Cigarette Was Found in 60's, but Company Shelved Idea-By Phillip J. Hilts https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/13/us/method-to-produce-safer-cigarette-was-found-in-60-s-but-company-shelved-idea.html Half of England is owned by less than 1% of the population-By Rob Evans https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/apr/17/who-owns-england-thousand-secret-landowners-author Coke: The World's Worst Plastic Polluter?-By Our Changing Climate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Va0o-wmW2fQ A Dream Denied: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities-By The National Coalition for the Homeless and The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty http://resistir.info/livros/us_homelessness.pdf Bridlington shops bleach food to stop homeless foraging http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/8606768.stm Confessions of a Union Buster-By Martin J. Levitt, Terry Conrow https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=FCD9B0686B7471071149F2BC88A7B5A4 Strikebreaking & intimidation : mercenaries and masculinity in twentieth-century America https://archive.org/details/strikebreakingin0000norw Long working hours increasing deaths from heart disease and stroke: WHO, ILO https://www.who.int/news/item/17-05-2021-long-working-hours-increasing-deaths-from-heart-disease-and-stroke-who-ilo The Hidden Environmental Toll of Mining the World’s Sand https://e360.yale.edu/features/the-hidden-environmental-toll-of-mining-the-worlds-sand "By far the largest mining endeavor globally is digging up sand, mainly for the concrete that goes into buildings. But this little-noticed and largely unregulated activity has serious costs — damaging rivers, wreaking havoc on coastal ecosystems, and even wiping away entire islands." Preventable Deaths from Lack of High-Quality Medical Care Costs Trillions-By Harvard Medical School https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180604160447.htm Eight million largely preventable deaths from treatable diseases cost $6 trillion in lost economic welfare in low- and middle-income countries in 2015. If current conditions persist, low- and middle-income countries could lose collectively $11 trillion in gross domestic product by 2030, or 2.6 percent of total GDP in low-income countries. U.N. warns economic downturn could kill hundreds of thousands of children in 2020 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-children-un-idUSKBN21Y2X7 American Billionaires have made an Average of $42 billion a week throughout the Pandemic https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaires-profited-average-of-42-billion-weekly-during-pandemic-2020-7 Dairy farmers are dumping millions of gallons of milk. This could make it stop https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/perspectives/cabot-dairy-farmers-pandemic/index.html Amazon destroying millions of items of unsold stock in one of its UK warehouses every year, ITV News investigation finds https://www.itv.com/news/2021-06-21/amazon-destroying-millions-of-items-of-unsold-stock-in-one-of-its-uk-warehouses-every-year-itv-news-investigation-finds Dunkin’ employee says he was fired for giving donuts that would have gone to waste to the homeless https://www.dailydot.com/irl/dunkin-employee-who-exposed-waste-policy-fired/ Why potato farmers are stuck with billions of pounds of potatoes https://www.businessinsider.com/potato-farmers-destroy-potatoes-covid19-even-in-a-food-shortage-2020-6 The Economic Consequences of Major Tax Cuts for the Rich http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/107919/1/Hope_economic_consequences_of_major_tax_cuts_published.pdf GDP Is Not a Measure of Human Well-Being https://hbr.org/amp/2019/10/gdp-is-not-a-measure-of-human-well-being BlackRock - The company that owns the world? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4foal20UTA The White Book of Capitalism & Democracy https://www.marxists.org/history/capitalism/white-book-capitalism/index.htm Pharma Breaks Lobbying Record Defending High Drug Prices and Vaccine Patents https://truthout.org/articles/pharma-breaks-lobbying-record-defending-high-drug-prices-and-vaccine-patents/ A brief history of union-busting https://guide.unitworkers.com/a-brief-history-of-union-busting/ Elon Musk broke US labor laws on Twitter https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/30/20891314/elon-musk-tesla-labor-violation-nlrb Why is planned obsolescence of electronics bad for the environment? https://pollybarks.com/blog/planned-obsolescence GDP Is Not a Measure of Human Well-Being https://hbr.org/amp/2019/10/gdp-is-not-a-measure-of-human-well-being Planned Obsolescence Documentary - The Light Bulb Conspiracy (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzJI8gfpu5Y Some supermarkets had been sprinkling liquid bleach on food to stop people rummaging through their waste bins http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/library/pdf/New_Internationalist_01.pdf Over 60% of All US Bankruptcies Attributable to Medical Problems https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-journals/over-60-of-all-us-bankruptcies-attributable-to-medical-problems Coca-Cola boycott launched after killings at Colombian plants https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/24/marketingandpr.colombia Corporate Greed the 'Real Culprit Behind Rising Prices,' Researchers Say https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/14/corporate-greed-real-culprit-behind-rising-prices-researchers-say Artificial intelligence quietly relies on workers earning $2 per hour https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/artificial-intelligence-quietly-relies-on-workers-earning-2-per-hour/ Amazon Mechanical Turk, described as "artificial artificial intelligence", uses low-paid workers to complete mini-tasks that AI can't do on its own Slavoj Žižek: Democracy and Capitalism Are Destined to Split Up | Big Think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXVEnxtZe_w&ab_channel=BigThink Stock Buybacks Are a Key Example of Extractive Corporate Power https://rooseveltinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/RI_Stock-Buybacks-key-example-of-extractive-corporate-power-Fact-Sheet-201910.pdf https://twitter.com/alanrmacleod/status/1480902566254940162?s=21 Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) What stage of capitalism is this? How Tech Billionaires Hack Their Taxes With a Philanthropic Loophole https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/03/business/donor-advised-funds-tech-tax.html Bank Privatisation Isn't Conducive for Financial Markets Under Capitalism https://www.newsclick.in/bank-privatisation-isnt-conducive-financial-markets-under-capitalism The social consequences of free trade in health care: a public health response to orthodox economics-By M I Roemer and J E Roemer https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7076373/ Abstract: In recent years, difficulties in U.S. health services have been ascribed to excessive government intervention and regulation; high costs and other problems would be solved, it is argued, by "return to the free market and competition." Examination of the past operations of free trade and competition in health care, however, shows that in this market not one of at least five conditions necessary for effective competition exists. Numerous adjustments made by social reflect strikingly the problems caused by these market deficiencies (such as seriously inadequate information or the presence of social "externalities"). Furthermore, even these adjustments-such as medical ethics or health insurance-have generated serious secondary problems. Many types of waste and social inequity also persist, in spite of all the attempts to compensate for market failure. In effect, the so-called free market in health care has survived only because of the extensive regulations and other actions taken to patch it up. Abandoning these adjustments would further aggravate current problems. Only replacement of free trade by systematic social planning could hope to achieve a health care system that allocates resources and distributes services both efficiently and equitably. Hershey, Nestlé, Mars and Other Chocolate Makers Named in Child Slavery Class Action Lawsuit https://www.ecowatch.com/chocolate-companies-child-slavery-lawsuit-2650543250.html Amazon-owned Whole Foods is quietly tracking its employees with a heat map tool that ranks which stores are most at risk of unionizing https://www.businessinsider.com/whole-foods-tracks-unionization-risk-with-heat-map-2020-1 https://youtu.be/cWUEdtPMqYw YouTube Mohammed Hijab Capitalism, Marxism and Islamic Economics with Prof Richard D. Wolf... Cadbury faces fresh accusations of child labour on cocoa farms in Ghana https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/apr/03/cadbury-faces-fresh-accusations-of-child-labour-on-cocoa-farms-in-ghana معركة الإسلام والرأسمالية لسيد قطب https://www.noor-book.com/%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8-%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%87-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%87-pdf https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/ The Intercept Bank of America Memo, Revealed: “We Hope” Conditions for American W... The financial behemoth privately fears that regular people have too much leverage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvRtNGW9Ajk YouTube Second Thought Capitalism Is Destroying Us - The New Climate Report Two Fatwas For The "Muslim" Capitalists The Connection Between Zakat And The Economic System And Social Security A Fatwa By Sheikh Muhammad Bin Saleh Al Munajjid https://islamqa.info/amp/en/answers/43162 An Islamic Analysis On Financial Crisis A Fatwa By Sheikh Muhammad Bin Saleh Al Munajjid https://islamqa.info/amp/en/answers/126477 https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/12/02/national/crime-legal/tokyo-games-bribery-bid-rigging-scandals/ The Japan Times The Tokyo Games bribery and bid-rigging scandals: What you need to ... Allegations of bid-rigging by leading advertising firms for Games test events have recently surfaced, adding to a scandal over suspected bribes paid for sponsorship contracts. As of October 2022, 20 state constitutions still included language permitting enslavement or servitude (typically as criminal punishment or for debt payments). Source: https://www.csg.org/2022/11/10/slavery-and-involuntary-servitude-as-a-punishment-in-the-united-states https://www.timesofisrael.com/modern-slavery-how-foreign-caregivers-in-israel-have-been-extorted-for-decades/ ‘Modern slavery’: How foreign caregivers in Israel have been extort... https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/the-burden-of-medical-debt-in-the-united-states/ Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker Matthew Rae The burden of medical debt in the United States - Peterson-KFF Heal... https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/food/drink/cocacola-produces-3bn-of-pure-cocaine-per-year/news-story/2f3592d1bac48ddd3b9d305f903977c3 Coca-Cola produces 3 billion dollars of pure cocaine per year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud2fMVd5sxA YouTube Athletic Interest How Coca-Cola Hijacked Sports https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65764307 BBC News Sackler family wins immunity from opioid lawsuits https://www.enjuris.com/blog/resources/largest-pharmaceutical-settlements-lawsuits/ Enjuris Top 10 Largest Pharmaceutical Lawsuits & Settlement Amounts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwQCnltp9lo YouTube Second Thought How Capitalism Causes Loneliness How Slavery Became the Economic Engine of the South https://www.history.com/news/slavery-profitable-southern-economy HISTORY How Slavery Became the Economic Engine of the South | HISTORY How Slavery Helped Build a World Economy https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/how-slavery-helped-build-a-world-economy Are We Beyond Slavery? Not even close. https://seekersguidance.org/articles/general-artices/slavery/