Intergenerational #inequality has always been evident (as one would expect; people accrue assets as they get older), but its getting worse.... for the rich this can be reduced by transfers & inheritance, but for the rest #pensioner poverty beckons....

This is just one more example of how the UK is a society run by the rich, for the rich, with scant regard of the social costs or misery such #class driven politics produces.

#classwar

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/10/pensioner-poverty-fear-of-uk-rise-over-decades-as-under-40s-wealth-falls

@Shivviness

Yes, as I implied in a post yesterday, #class is the great denied factor in contemporary UK #politics!

As Martha Gill points out, a call for a Minister for Men, misunderstands the prejudice & problems men *do* encounter: its not about gender (for them), its about #racism & as importantly, #class!

Don' be thinking UK's #politics is somehow post-class... wherever I look I still see the shadow of class-based discrimination, but its become the prejudice that cannot be talked about in 'polite society'.

So lets be clear: much of the UK's #inequality is a class issue!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/09/we-dont-need-a-minister-for-men-we-need-guys-to-fill-female-roles

WaPo #environment newsletter has some interesting stuff today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/08/inside-turmoil-sierra-club/

"The tumult intensified in April and May, when the group’s new leadership laid off more than two dozen employees, many of whom were people of color, as part of what Jealous has called a broader “restructuring.” According to the Progressive Workers Union, which represented about 400 Sierra Club staffers before the layoffs, more than 30 of its members lost their jobs".
#SierraClub #Equity #race #class

A quotation from Post, Emily:

«
To show lack of consideration for those who in any capacity serve us — whether in restaurants, hotels, or stores, or in public places anywhere — is always an evidence of ill-breeding as well as inexcusable selfishness. It is only those who are afraid that someone may encroach upon their exceedingly insecure dignity who show neither courtes…
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/post-emily/63023/

#quote #quotes #quotation #courtesy #service #class #consideration

I will be leading a class Sept 19 and 26 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Choose Your Best Book-Publishing Path

Learn more here: https://writer.org/event/fa23pub1b/

#class #workshop #AmWriting #books #publishing

Great day #today. I had a big grant get funded letting me work with a fantastic new #professor from #TrentUniversity, Autumn Watkinson, on #meadow #restoration. I got nice reviews back on a paper lead-authored by my former PhD student Jody Daniel. I taught my first lecture this fall and the whole #class promised to do their assigned #readings before each #lecture. #academicchatter @academicchatter

Socialism with #Chinese characteristics is conscious #socialism , not socialism in prose, not socialism in poetry, not bourgeois socialism, but socialism of the working #class .
#CPC #marxism #socialist #capitalist #china #usa #marx #anticapitalist

I’m tired of it. It just doesn’t have any class. Although people can actually do that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf0ldEBBJhY

https://word.undead-network.de/2023/09/01/im-tired-of-it-it-just-doesnt-have-any-class-although-people-can-actually-do-that/
#BillieHolday #class #jazz #style #tired

Last night class at Universidade de São Paulo. #usp #biochemistry #laboratory #class #biology

Did any of you ever notice how #capitalism breaks systems that are supposed to help us? Rather like, we want to pay for useful things, but payment structures for many daily things make it unattractive to use them.

I think the biggest red flag that something is not in your favor is when people shit on taxes. That said, I do think that taxation is theft has some merit. I don't think we should have anything that would put you in prison if you don't do it, because the poor and disabled will be the victims. Also something that #communism #class #warfare people kinda ignore is that many rich people want to contribute but they are not allowed to pay more taxes than is allocated for them.

The right solution here is simplifying taxes to the point that you just have a bank account number and a coin box to leave taxes in. You can calculate a reference, but in the end everyone should be responsible themselves to pay taxes the way that works best for them. This way we have true community buy-in with community contributions. This can also fix issues with multi-country taxation and the very reason we have so many tax loopholes. If you are called on your morals instead of your shareholders, tax loopholes become completely nonsensical.

Also my favorite part of my religion, the Bahá'í faith, is that any and all kind of taxation is not just only done when you are really convinced about doing it, but also only over the part that is more than what you need to survive. I think taxation over the base amount of money you survive on is just criminal. But also, we shouldn't frame taxation as having rich people paying their fair share, but instead incorporating the rich as part of the community tasking to do what they do best, which can often involve putting their money to work.

Any kind of division creates war, and war kills people. Class warfare is never going to fix capitalism, only making sure that we are all part of the same community and society will.

#bahai #cohesivism #voluntary #taxation

@cohesivism

Interesting #podcast episode about #sexwork in #history, lots of discussion relating how legal it is to #class issues.

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society | Re-Run: History of Sex For Sale https://www.podbean.com/ea/dir-iqp7v-1a7ff43d

The Massive Standoff That Could Shut Down The Auto Industry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIbzJ3lTwgg&ab_channel=MorePerfectUnion

150,000 #workers are ready to #shut #down the US #auto #industry that shut them #out of the #middle #class.

OnlineFirst - "Uneven and combined development in anthropology" by Sharryn Kasmir, Jaume Franquesa, Lesley Gill, Winnie Lem, and Gavin Smith:

#unevenandcombineddevelopment #capitalism #class #politics #ethnography

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X231189385

The new dates for these examinations will be announced later. Information regarding these rescheduled examinations will be made available on the board’s website www.pseb.ac.in and through school notice boards
#PunjabSchoolEducationBoard #Class
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/punjab-school-education-board-postpones-reappear-compartments-exams-new-dates-to-be-announced-later-101692808835339.html

Board exams twice a year, Class 11 & 12 students to study 2 languages: Govt #Board #Class #Govt #socialnewsxyz

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2023/08/23/board-exams-twice-a-year-class-11-12-students-to-study-2-languages-govt/

On working class environmentalism (from 2019). 'They may not get much media coverage but working-class activists have long been environmental heroes.'
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/11/a-working-class-green-movement-is-out-there-but-not-getting-the-credit-it-deserves
#class #workingclass #environmentalism

The SDF Plan9 Boot Camp Fall 2023 begins in a month on September 22nd and free registration is open now.

https://sdf.org/plan9

Come learn about the Plan9 operation system self-paced in a fun and friendly community environment

#learning #class #study #hacking #plan9 #unix

It costs #students around £60k to fund the 3 years of a #degree.

#university #class

It’s Time to Talk About Class. Laura Pidcock discusses what it means to be working class, and why the establishment is so afraid of class politics. (From 2019).
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/11/its-time-to-talk-about-class
#class