Increasing wages at least helped counter some of the effect produced by the fact that all new money produced (Fed) is first available to the most wealthy and results in counteracting inflation at the top but not bottom, where it takes time to come into circulation; essentially a regressive tax

No critique, just elaborating: Not supporting that kind of box myself, there is the need for some kind of boundaries internally. I see that there may be people free of preestablished constraints on their behavior- that are just harmless free spirits etc.- also a position taken by people busy harming

That or something else similar that gives an idealistic effort a solid base to grow from. If anyone wants to brainstorm or enlist my help on a project or just chat DM me

And we need a powerful alternative. The Data as Labor model or something like that, now made very possible because you can track anonymous individual contributions w views using newer, secure, technology- and people can get paid for those efforts.

"group walks", in living rooms and parties and elsewhere. And if we want good social media we need a new business model. This one is premised on fueling division and anxiety and poor self esteem and outrage (because they cheaply, reliably drive online engagement)...

- and who rents the behavior modification but the literal worst people in the world. I'm all for coded communication, and switching to platforms that seem not to have capitulated, but we also just need tons more communication at just such in person events as "festivals" or

isn't pretty forthcoming pretty quickly. As an ex big deal SM guy, Jaron Lanier, wrote- corporate controlled SM is best thought of as BUMMER "Behavior of users modified and made into an Empire for Rent"

Are they registered as something other than Republican? This means the language will have to be *very* oblique and constantly shifting. And then the platforms that hold out will be brought to heel or destroyed if a groundswell ...

But it's not just what you post in a single post... It's what you have posted in the deep past crossed referenced with a lot of other stuff like we're you identified by geofencing as being near multiple protests, do your friends have raised fists or rainbow or Ukrainian flags in their pics...

Problem is folks, at least on those platforms that intend to capitulate, AI is going to get very very good at connecting the dots. If Bluesky is truly a benevolent platform it will hold out a while...

Efforts connected to segregation, slavery are easy to see. As a larger magnitude: not just Chx Nat but thinking that died as just dumb at the end of the 1600s. Manipulative power of soc. media and the resentment of groups that fear change has allowed a crushing of humanism and democratic thinking?

There is something in what you said that reminds me of Kandinsky i think.. is it he who thought he might create a visual vocabulary. ..?