Unrelated to the article: The drawings in the top image are beautiful. What's the name of the style for it? I would love to learn this technique.
Beauty in my backyard
31–34 of 34 posts
Re: Beauty in my backyard
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with that worldview is that it's always the same look from the same perspective that is, the economic machine is an extractive system (top Your perspective ignores the fact that some of "us, the people" are actually benefiting from this economic machine/collective organization. In industrialized societies, it's been decades that even the people at the bottom of the social ladder have "more to lose than th…
You do not only misunderstand completely what I am saying, but contibute me a worldview that I do not have. Yes, I am familiar with the economic rise of postwar Europe/US and how it contributed to wellbeing to not just workers in the west, but also final collapse of those old empires and liberation of those colonised nations from their European masters (what happened after that in many of them is another story). The…
I have no doubt that you are I was in no way looking down on the role of organized labor and pro-labor movements into getting the majority decent living standard.
On the other hand, labor was already well-organized, so what changed ? I'd say the ability to harness ever more so energy to a point where it was abundant. All of our standard of living is downstream of cheap energy. It feeds the machine and the machines work for us. Now we have a stake in the system because we rely on it much much more.
> After 70’s you look at purchasing power and living standards stagnating and both political and economical power becoming more and more concentrated on small elite
Is it the case though ? Probably it was more concentrated than in the decades before but I have a hard time to believe that it's more concentrated now than when we had political posters denouncing the "200 families" that ran the country. Anyways I am against the concentration of wealth and I am even against the existence of billionaires (I believe individual wealth should be capped so that it doesn't become political power) but I think your view of those articles is uncharitable. It is a binary worldview where people are either for labor or mouthpieces for capital and I just don't believe you get anywhere interesting with that approach, imputing motives has little value compared to actually try to respond to the arguments being made
> just a thin veil for business as usual rentier capitalism, that only benefits a very small elite
Trying to figure out how to best organize cities and develop them in the best interest of the public while trying to cap the negative externalities of development is a worthwhile endeavor
Re: Beauty in my backyard
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
You do not only misunderstand completely what I am saying, but contibute me a worldview that I do not have. Yes, I am familiar with the economic rise of postwar Europe/US and how it contributed to wellbeing to not just workers in the west, but also final collapse of those old empires and liberation of those colonised nations from their European masters (what happened after that in many of them is another story). The…
I have no doubt that you are I was in no way looking down on the role of organized labor and pro-labor movements into getting the majority decent living standard. On the other hand, labor was already well-organized, so what changed ? I'd say the ability to harness ever more so energy to a point where it was abundant. All of our standard of living is downstream of cheap energy. It feeds the machine and the machines wo…
So I tried to check but at least in France the concentration of wealth was decreasing until 1980 when it started to raise again until now. We are now back at the 1935 level where 1% has 40% of the wealth
EDIT: For the U.S same tendancies but you started from lower concentration and you also sit at 40% now
Re: Beauty in my backyard
#34Unrelated to the article: The drawings in the top image are beautiful. What's the name of the style for it? I would love to learn this technique.
Etching?