"...danger for the crazy elites as crazy prols enlightened workers become even more disenfranchised and angry"
Fixed that for ya!
dohboi wrote:Mods, please correct spelling in the title to 'Inequity'. Thanks.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
dohboi wrote:And...talk about inequity...
Here's an excellent long-read on the current state of mid-Appalachian coal country, and how it came to be that way.
The 100-year capitalist experiment that keeps Appalachia poor, sick, and stuck on coal
https://qz.com/1167671/the-100-year-cap ... k-on-coal/
(Thanks to sig at asif for this)
It turns out, Trump’s campaign promises weren’t just talk. In August, the Trump administration halted a comprehensive study, launched by the National Academy of Sciences in early 2017, to assess the health effects of mountaintop removal, citing cost concerns. Meanwhile, Trump appointed as head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration a former CEO of a coal company with a record of repeated safety violations, including at a mine where a preventable accident killed a miner in 2011. His energy department is investigating ways to force utility companies to subsidize coal company profits, reported Slate in Oct. 2017.
Inequality predicts homicide rates “better than any other variable”, says Martin Daly, professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McMaster University in Ontario ...
pstarr wrote:I care deeply for the green planet earth.
pstarr wrote:I don't have the money
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