https://thenewdaily.com.au/finance/finance-news/2023/08/10/allan-fels-price-gouging/

#Australia: #unions investigate lower #LivingStandards while profits surge

#ACTU #unions #UnionStrong #Capitalism #Exploitation #Oligarchy #Inequality #ClassWar #AbuseOfPower

'So #Britain is world-beating at something after all: batshit #royal #pageantry -

Our #LivingStandards may be slipping behind those of far less wealthy countries, but do they have a holy spoon to anoint their leaders?'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/05/britain-world-beating-royal-pageantry-coronation
#Monarchy #Coronation #KingCharles #TaxDodgingParasites

In these difficult times, please send thoughts and prayers to Tesco, who only made £753m profit last year. God bless you Tesco, I for one will buy things I don’t need to help boost your profits this year. Every little bit helps shareholders
#costofliving #inflation #politics #ukpolitics #livingstandards #Tesco #tory #tories #toryscum #ToriesOut #SunakOut #rishi #rishisunak #FairPay #wages #news #bbc #uspolitics #interestrates #strike #strikes #nhs #bbc #food #health #DoctorsStrike #Solidarity

#kleptocracy: "The biggest winners of all this #hatred will be the #politicians who have failed to improve the #livingstandards of their people despite being in power for decades," he says.

Politicians would swiftly name and shame individuals and NGOs they accuse of supporting and spreading homosexuality in the country but would never dare to expose their peers who #embezzle millions of dollars of #publicfunds.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65239117

TUC: Tories presided over worst living standards fall since 1950s
#TUC
#LivingStandards
#Tories
#ToriesOut
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2023/03/20/new-research-shows-precisely-whos-to-blame-for-your-tanking-living-standards/

From the 1980s to today, our living standards are still under attack | Morning Star
#LivingStandards
#1980sToToday
#CostOfLivingCrisis
#Unions
#Strikes
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/1980s-today-our-living-standards-are-still-under-attack

EU law Bill and the consequences of the removal of hundreds of laws aren’t even clear to this gov. The most appalling gov in my 60+ yrs memory. 12yrs of increasing attacks on the maj of the people of the UK. #austerity #corruption #LivingStandards #HostileGov

#introduction I am a professional musician (drummer) and adjunct music professor at 3 NY area colleges..I have performed with a wide range of artists including Grammy winners, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members and many acclaimed artists in jazz, rock and funk music..I have a home recording studio where I record my own music..current projects #donbraden / #karllatham #BigFun(k) ; Samadhi with Laurence Hobgood, James Robbins and Andromeda Turre; and my own project #livingstandards I live in NY

Worst fall in #UK #LivingStandards since records began, says #OBR | #Economics | The Guardian

I will concede that international conditions and events have a large bearing on economic conditions but the #Tories are solely responsible for this situation through 12 years in power and driving through the worst possible form of #Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/17/obr-confirms-uk-enters-year-long-recession-with-half-a-million-job-losses-likely

#UK #Politics

@saxnot

This depiction is incredibly naive.

#Google&friends use #OpenSource strategically, to disrupt markets they have no share in (think of early #Chrome), to lock-in users into their #surveillance (think of #Android), to lobby for or against certain global architectures (think of #HTTP/3, that they can only impose because they control the two major browsers, Chrome and #Firefox), and so on...

Their projects have OpenSource licenses (mostly permissive ones) just because they keep strict control over the whole development process (and can impose manufacturers to deploy their proprietary tools) both through #patents and by rising software complexity beyond what anybody else can handle (not even #Microsoft was able to keep parity with Google controlled #WHATWG #LivingStandards).

The mith they develop what they need to run, is just a myth of #OSS.
Much like the idea that being open would imply to be higher quality, "thousand eyebals, yadda yadda".

@bagder

@z

#Chromium is not much different from #Firefox: both depends on #Google money.

@yogthos

#GAFAM controls #WHATWG too and #LivingStandards follow the predominant implementations (guess who is predominant) so, despite the rhetoric there is no openness (nor #Freedom) in such "Open Standards".

As for #W3C I think this comment express well the state of affairs since years: https://www.w3.org/blog/2017/12/whatwg-working-mode-changes/#comment-96140