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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 89/n Kumar and Pettifor also discuss the next big financial crash, when the #AIBubble bursts
It made me wonder whether perhaps, unlike 2008, there will be civic refusal to bail out banks and butt up a defunct system once again? The world, the mood is so different now. I wonder whether those of us who want this change need to start planning and mobilising towards this moment (the AI bubble bursting), so that we don’t waste another opportunity.
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 82/n In the UK, the best thing you can do to try and mobilise against rising inequality is to join the Green Party!
This new campaign video by #ZackPolanski is brilliant. This too, reaonated deeply - this is me right now. We need to find ways to collectively stop running and pause!
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 83/n Linking nicely to #GreenParty ad i shared yesterday (⬆️ do watch! it’s great!) - here an interesting discussion on Novara Media on the relationship between low growth (and ordinary people not benefiting from growth even where there is some) and the decline of liberal democracy. A lot to unpack and do agree with discussants that more complex, but good to centre economic stagnation and rising inequality in decline of political trust and #Democracy
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 84/n Record number of people in UK live in ‘very deep poverty’, analysis show
“People want to feel like the country is turning a corner. That means taking action on record levels of deep poverty so everyone can afford the essentials. It means making people feel supported rather than being one redundancy or bout of ill health away from failing to make ends meet.”
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 85/n
Mandelson: “I do not want to live by salary alone”
This whole Novara Media episode on the #Epstein files is so worth listening to. How it all works. Mandelson feeding market sensitive information from inside No 10. Epstein transferring $75,000 to him. It all stinks, it is all deeply corrupt, but this is the system under which we all live.
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/novara-live/id1510920958?i=1000747764420
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 86/n Think #Epstein is salacious trivia? Not for you? Don’t!
The revelations concern us all - an unprecedented insight into how power, money, patriarchy work, and how deeply corrupt it all is.
I really recommend following it all on #Novara media. Incredibly insightful discussions in every episode.
Also: do subscribe if you can. So, so important to create different money flows, towards good, critical media and investigative journalism
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 87/n This just made me laugh, and is also interesting! #Epstein himself organising seminars on power and money!
Reminded me of Michael Gove having a statue of Gramsci in his office and using Gramsci: it’s not instinctive how these people create and maintain power and money: they think and read about and apply insights systematically and strategically.
We on the left can learn a lot from this, frankly.
