Dismantling Wall Street’s excuses for short selling

 https://upsidechronicles.com/2021/09/14/dismantling-wall-streets-defense-of-short-selling/

 https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/qrvkj4/one_last_milking_of_the_lower_class_before/
Lots of signs of problems with the current economy (lots of personal stories in this thread)

I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End

 https://medium.com/@ryan79z28/im-a-twenty-year-truck-driver-i-will-tell-you-why-america-s-shipping-crisis-will-not-end-bbe0ebac6a91

 https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/i73oi7/aoc_asks_andrew_cuomo_why_indoor_schooling_is/g10h0zg/

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/eda4l0/bernie_sanders_says_real_wages_rose_11_hes_right/fbh9sff/

Why Louisiana Stays Poor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38

Desperate Venezuelans Turn to Video Games to Survive

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/desperate-venezuelans-turn-to-video-games-to-survive

Basic Income, Job Guarantees, and Invisible Labor

https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/basic-income-job-guarantees-and-invisible-labor-c08134e7f310

Cash vs Services

https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/75nzvl/universal_basic_services_could_work_better_than/do8oxjd/

The IMF Admits It Was Wrong About Keynesianism

http://www.businessinsider.com/imf-admitted-their-economists-were-wrong-2013-1

Grocery supply chains

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/6djx11/this_american_produce_shelf_in_a_finnish/di3lsw1/

Post Scarcity won't happen.

I see a lot of posts on reddit, and occasional articles claiming that robots and AIs will lower the cost of goods and services to the point where everything is free. There is one major problem: Land will always be limited. As the cost of goods and services decline, housing will rise.

When robots replace workers, the effects ripple throughout the community, and they last

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/04/02/when-robots-replace-workers-the-effects-ripple-throughout-the-community-and-they-last/

Here’s What Nobody Understands About Race in America

http://www.alternet.org/economy/heres-what-nobody-understands-about-race-america

The Fundamental Flaw of Capitalism:

TL;DR: The engine of capitalism uses the wealth of workers as fuel. This will run out if no interventions exist to replenish it.

It is a general rule: If you work for someone else, you are generating more value than you are being paid.

If you didn't generate more value than you were paid, there would be no point in hiring you. This means that the total spending of the worker base, is greater than the total income received by workers, because a portion of that spent money, goes to the owners as profits to the business; wealth moves up.

The flow of wealth from the bottom to the top, is a fundamental part of capitalism, and a major part of how it functions. Without it, businesses couldn't be profitable, and for the economy to grow, businesses need profits.

There's a problem: If left alone, the entire system will slowly grind to a halt as it drains every last bit of wealth from the bottom, until there's nothing left.

Keeping the system running at full speed, and keeping the economy growing, requires the wealth at the bottom to not run out. In the past this has been done through constant expansion. Gaining new lands and resources for the workers to harvest and the owners to profit from. Nowadays though, we've already taken over so much of the world's land, there just isn't much room for expansion left. We are hitting the limits of land wealth available to us.

The fundamental flaw of capitalism, is that it relies upon the movement of wealth from the bottom to the top, but contains no built in system for that wealth to be replenished. To keep things running, it is important to create a system for transferring wealth back down, so it can move back up and keep the engine running.

Being poor changes your thinking about everything

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/13/being-poor-changes-your-thinking-about-everything/

The Market as God

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/99mar/marketgod.htm

What's Going on With Social Security?

http://economixcomix.com/home/social-security/

David Graeber: “Spotlight on the financial sector did make apparent just how bizarrely skewed our economy is in terms of who gets rewarded”

http://www.salon.com/2014/06/01/help_us_thomas_piketty_the_1s_sick_and_twisted_new_scheme/

Hostile AI: You’re soaking in it!

http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre-soaking-in-it.html