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(DIR) Post #AhY2TJgYPBvIs6taMq by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-06T09:06:02Z
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#Budget #UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n) #FollowTheMoneyhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/banker-budget-mega-rich-traders-jeremy-hunt?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AhY2TKZr5a9vdclkZ6 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-06T09:07:04Z
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#TragedyOftheNonCommons 2/nhttps://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/109308498065515745
(DIR) Post #AhY2TLGkW6TDmeq0QK by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-08T07:13:45Z
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3/n Have decided to turn this into a #FollowTheMoney 🧵, collecting pieces on how money flows in our system- more and more towards those already rich. As Kelsey McKenney, in this piece on #Hollywod, writes: “The reality is that the people with the most money have devised, at every turn, new and more bulletproof ways for them to make and keep more money, and for the people who make things to make less. This is the eternal story of labor and management.” https://defector.com/the-money-is-in-all-the-wrong-places
(DIR) Post #AhY2TLvW4X51p5uYy0 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-08T07:21:11Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 4/n This is happening in creative industries, in higher education, in literature: the more “content” - a lecture, an article, a role in a film - becomes a commodity divorced from its creators, the less creators themselves are paid and valued; they are workers, labourers like everyone else, the value of whose labour gets extracted by capital. Capitalism isn’t over, replaced by #technofeudalism as some of claimed; it’s in full swing, in its purest form.
(DIR) Post #AhY2TMWjq8r1gXKHz6 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-08T07:39:22Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 5/n Adding here a piece a group of us co-wrote at an #anthropologyworkshop, on “Understanding Growth”. This was experimental - co-writing on the spot! -, but i do come back to it: we distinguish between“Growth rooted in life” from “growth rooted in numbers”. Capitalism is pure number thinking. Obviously there are many real experts on all this (Marx, Pikkety for a start), this piece is left field! But just thought of it again in this context. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2023/10/26/anthropology-and-degrowth-where-to-next/
(DIR) Post #AhY2TN7FeO3rVmPRtg by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-08T17:42:45Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 6/n This is important: in contrast to most other Central Banks, which simply sit out losses, the Bank of England has an indemnity arrangement requiring the Treasury to cover its losses. This has resulted in £38-£40 billion going in effect from taxpayers to private banks in 2023, and same this year. Adding a second hashtag: #SEEtheOligarchyFT article only for subscribers, I know (i get it through work). Here screenshots of key passages.https://on.ft.com/4bUtp80
(DIR) Post #AhY2TNmNBUxFZJeHzc by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-08T17:52:28Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 7/n Now something different - this really is a rag bag, really just adding things as they come along, occur to me, no careful crafting! Just things that enable you to trace and understand how money flows to the rich, how accumulation works. So here, a piece, with this fantastic map, of second homes in the UK, in #Cornwall in particular. Key arena of widening #WealthGap #Inequalityhttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/06/were-on-a-cliff-edge-cornish-village-where-52-of-houses-are-not-first-homes?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other#SEEtheOligarchy
(DIR) Post #AhY2TOWoOq6LtLNNNQ by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-09T08:47:51Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 8/n Adding here a (somewhat sweary, apologies) Politics Joe interview with Gary Stevenson (see 1/n), talking about the rapid increase in inequality in the UK and the world, and also about how we need to make people SEE THIS. They need to realise that the reason their lives are shit, that they can't get houses, is growing inequality. Because the system is set up to make money flow to the rich. Everyone needs to understand this. #SEETheOligarchy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVvoyRpxG-A
(DIR) Post #AhY2TOvytGEb9P9Tbk by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-16T09:06:26Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 9/n So far the has been more about who the money flows towards, but now also some posts about who it flows away from. Again, random collection, no comprensive analysis - just snippets of what’s going on! Yesterday I listened to this really heartbreaking and deeply worrying programme about the rapid rise in bankruptcies in the UK. Of course we see this all around us - all those closing restaurants, Debenhams etc. the #DeathOfTheHighStreet speeding uphttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001x55h?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
(DIR) Post #AhY2TPTes3AmpquN6G by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-16T09:15:36Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 10/n But note the title ⬆️ - what is going on here? Turns out quite a bit of of the program was about how “Zombie firms”were kept alive artificially for years by low interest rates; that it’s good if they die and others take over. Really struck and appalled by utter coldness, distance and dehumanisation by people who say this - as @PippiPunkstrumpf just said, they really think of others just as numbers (see also our “Understanding Growth” piece above 5/n).
(DIR) Post #AhY2TPubFsiwBPVt5s by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-18T16:51:44Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 11/n Another key area money flows away from are local councils and social services and, therefore, the young and, again, community. In Birmingham, whose council declared bankruptcy in 2023, provisions for children will be cut by £52m in 2024-25 and £63m in 2025-26; youth services by £2.3m; and eleven community centres are being sold off. As John Harris says: The state is abandoning its people#UKPolitics #Birmingham #Austerity https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/17/birmingham-britain-state-cuts-austerity-local-services
(DIR) Post #AhY2TQb8hikeJLPrOq by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-18T16:58:09Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵12/n Of course, things were never rosy for everyone. Nevertheless, key shared assumptions about the #commongood informed post war public spending and that is all eroding now. “Continuing austerity does not just kill people’s services; it has long since warped most political debates about what we should expect from the state. In lots of places, squalor, mess and festering social problems are now seen as the norm. “ #TheCrumble
(DIR) Post #AhY2TR86j97fxaqBmq by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-18T17:11:04Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 13/n and i have to mention UK universities too, since I am directly affected myself (see #AcademicVenting). 40% of UK universities are in debt, with major reduncancies right now (incl at Goldsmiths). All in arts, humanities and social sciences. All of this is crumbling, with too little money flowing into it. Another industry, another #CommonGoodbeing eroded. Check out this constantly updated tally. #TheCrumblehttps://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/
(DIR) Post #AhY2TRZl4LEzLLmGsy by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-27T05:32:59Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 14/n Just realised the title of this really excellent article by Sam Knight is actually perhaps the real theme of this 🧵: What Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule have Done to BritainAs Sam says, #Austerity is not even talked about so much anymore, but it has just broken the #UK . Please do read the whole piece, so well written, so damning (and I’ve even managed to ignore an aside criticism of Corbyn - usually makes me hate any writer! 😊)https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/01/what-have-fourteen-years-of-conservative-rule-done-to-britain
(DIR) Post #AhY2TS9YvDsf8OWrh2 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-03-27T05:43:17Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 15/n “The average worker is now £14,000 worse off per year than if earnings had continued to rise at pre-crisis rates—it is the worst period for wage growth since the Napoleonic Wars. “Nobody who’s alive and working in the British economy today has ever seen anything like this. This is what failure looks like.” “A Herefordshire case workers has developed a phrase to describe people needing help, “for her paperwork”: “Overwhelming Distress”
(DIR) Post #AhY2TSQvsdm80Gejlg by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-03T12:44:46Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 16/n Back to who the money flows towards: Nobody had a better year than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, whose net worth has increased by more than any other billionaire, up by nearly $113 billion over the past 12 months, to an estimated $177 billion #AI #Metahttps://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2024/04/02/tech-billionaires-have-added-an-astonishing-750-billion-to-their-fortunes-over-the-past-year/
(DIR) Post #AhY2TSrWHn2hKj5yD2 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-03T12:50:26Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 17/n and here the whole Forbes Rich List for 2024. The planet has a record 2,781 billionaires now who are worth a record $14.2 trillion. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2024/04/02/forbes-38th-annual-worlds-billionaires-list-facts-and-figures-2024/
(DIR) Post #AhY2TTECvRBsT5i5ZY by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-11T06:24:31Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 18/n Spotify too. Everywhere money is being sucked out (or who has the agency here really? More in next post) from artists to billionaires https://mstdn.ca/@ned/112249803518261424
(DIR) Post #AhY2TTWdotw5OGKoIy by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-11T06:33:38Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 19/n This is what I am thinking about now. Not at all the first to say this or even think it myself, but just to emphasise: better not to think of billionaires as evil scheming money grabbers - i mean, they are - but as vessels for money, capitalism itself. Like, sci-fi wise, human bodies that look like humans from the outside but have been taken over by an AI - money itself. And it’s ruling everything! https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/112251122729288252
(DIR) Post #AhY2TTxEE3Ceiim2kK by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-11T06:49:14Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 20/n Now really is the time of monsters. #Gramsci
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2024-04-11T06:57:33Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 21/n Suddenly remembered that at the end of 2022 I posted this here. So embarrassing - cringe, as my children would say! That I actually wrote “the new world is almost born”. No it’s not. The time of monsters is in full, full swing, the new world really is not born yet. All we can do is to keep on trying to organise to make it happen one day. #Gramscihttps://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/109607575259368216
(DIR) Post #AhY2TUtiiZzVe88kuu by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-11T07:05:33Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 22/n Last point and then I will stop for today: saw #Hamilton a few weeks ago and was really struck by how then it was possible to start a revolution, raise an army and WIN! Like, that would just be totally impossible now. The imbalance in military power, just as in wealth (and control over media etc etc) is just so VAST now. It’s impossible to beat. That’s why noone really even tries anymore.
(DIR) Post #AhY2TVROhMvhKZtePQ by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-11T07:29:24Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 23/n. Sorry- one more! Just to end on a less bleak note: seeing this toot reminded me that, of course, that billionaire military might AI bleak dystopia is real,IS our world, but there is actually an even bigger reality here every day, in all of us, since forever. Which is that the vast majority of us humans basically just want a simple life, with family, friends, barbecues (ok maybe not perfect example but since it’s here). #FrugalAbundance https://ohai.social/@archaeohistories/112251349725100974
(DIR) Post #AhY2TVsL5CTqg8VAP2 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-11T07:39:26Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 24/n. Like, watching the blue tits busy building their nest in the box outside our kitchen window, feeding their young, flying back and forth: most of us humans are so much closer to them than to scheming billionaires. And: this forever (i hope forever- in peril due to other!) reality - of birds, trees, parents hugging children, just enjoying being together - this is perhaps the real reality. Or at least always also there. Mustn’t forget!
(DIR) Post #AhY2TWRQyiYMQyvC6a by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-13T10:39:29Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 25/n back to a reality most of us in the UK inhabit on a daily basis: the crumbling public sector. Found this report on NHS dentistry’s struggle for survival really very moving just now. #NHS #dentistry #UKpolitics https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001y0kf?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
(DIR) Post #AhY2TWwH83DtydLpB2 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-18T08:53:25Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 26/n An outstanding review by Will Davies (my Goldsmiths colleague) of Brett Christopher’s “The Price is Wrong”: about our neoliberal political economy (using a Braudelian distinction btw “the market” and “capitalism” - SO useful) and how this explain why investments in fossil fuels continue to vastly outstrip those in renewables. Key point: Capitalism IS rent-seeking. #ClimateEmergency https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n07/william-davies/antimarket
(DIR) Post #AhY2TXStAnJLbmbs0m by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-18T09:03:05Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵27/n The piece btw contains a necessary critique of my sci-fi “money rules” take a few posts above. Although i still like the idea of all this being a kind of superorganism. But yes, it is about power - political economy, not just economy.
(DIR) Post #AhY2TXpvn7k6lFOGvY by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-18T09:08:28Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 28/n But honestly, just read this piece - everything in this 🧵 in one brilliant analysis. And, crucially, using to explain lack of climate action. This is what everyone, each one of us, needs to think about! “Ecologically speaking, neoliberalism couldn’t have come at a worse time.”Here Christopher’s book itself: The Price is Wrong. Why Capitalism Won’t Save The Planet. https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3069-the-price-is-wrong
(DIR) Post #AhY2TYGWCH0g5hpVMu by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-30T09:23:51Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 29/n Another overlap with #AcademicVenting 🧵- because it’s all of a piece! Because the crisis in HE is a key phenomenon in all this! This great piece by Jessica Wildfire really needs to be read in full, but this extract most apt here:“Universities aren't institutions of knowledge anymore. They're assets. They're revenue streams. If they're not generating money for the top, then they only pose a threat, and they have to be weakened and destroyed.”https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112359018143961300
(DIR) Post #AhY2TYeGly0bHMwTOC by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-05-04T06:31:44Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 30/n Wow. As Bregman says: Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.Look at 1980 - I do continue to think that *everything* could have been different if Carter hadn’t lost to Reagan.
(DIR) Post #AhY2TaKqV9eyVhrzOK by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-05-04T06:38:37Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 31/n I think the graph came from this New York Times piece but don’t have a subscription so can’t check.https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/opinion/global-billionaires-tax.html
(DIR) Post #Ao3oDbPVQPxCLuDi5Y by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-05-05T06:59:15Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 32/n Watched “The Founder” on Netflix yesterday, about McDonalds. Really interesting- would recommend it. Particularly how the real breakthrough came when Kroc, advised by Sonneborn, went for real estate. Checked it on Wikipedia:“McDonald's present-day real-estate holdings represent $37.7 billion on its balance sheet, about 99% of the company's assets and 35% of its annual gross revenue.”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_McDonald%27s
(DIR) Post #Ao3oDcECNwVGt7wC6S by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-05-09T05:56:39Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 33/nToday an overlap with #ClimateDiary: British farmers are struggling due to climate change, Brexit AND supermarket power:Most farmers receive less than 1% of the profit made from the food they grow. Of the 20% food inflation experienced by the public a minuscule proportion made its way back to the farmer. Tesco made a £2.3bn profit last year, while 49% of fruit and veg farmers fear they’ll be out of business before the end of this one.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/british-farmer-food-climate-crisis-business?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #Ao3oDcsbxgpUuSqT5s by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-05-09T06:06:38Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵34/n #ClimateDiary We had a veg box for 12 years from Hankham Organics; 3 weeks ago we suddenly had a note with our box that they were closing, as it wasn’t working financially any more. 😢😢😢And a fish merchant who we got smoked salmon for Christmas from closed this year too, for the same reasons. Plus Goldsmiths’ woes of course (#AcademicVenting). So many good, small organisations struggling and ending.
(DIR) Post #Ao3oDdjmlzMdZNivya by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-05-09T06:07:52Z
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#FollowTheMoney 35/n #ClimateDiary #AcademicVenting This is why:https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/112408392604056154
(DIR) Post #Ao3oDeEyu0Jl88JqbI by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-05-09T17:23:15Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 36/n Here a positive, progressive use of money flows: 1400+ Columbia University alumni from its 20 schools have pledged to withhold all “financial, programmatic, and academic support” until school meets demands related to divestment, student discipline, and community safety.Group website says over $63 million of donations at risk. #Gaza #studentprotests
(DIR) Post #Ao3oDeuoOTmJDrtFnk by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-05-15T11:22:48Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵37/n Even though all of us living in the UK know that homelessness is terrible (and has grown exponentially since 2010), it is still shocking to see this graph. (There are notes on methods: all countries included both rough sleeping and invisible homelessness). https://www.oecd.org/social/homelessness-country-notes.htm?utm_term=pac&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1-CorporatePriorityContent,2-Recovery%5BSupportingPublicandSocialPolicies%5D,3-ELS&utm_source=twitter
(DIR) Post #Ao3oDfj9NK2njzRSGO by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-05-24T08:05:08Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 38/n A rare silver lining to severe cuts in local council budgets: for the last few years Eastbourne have stopped spraying our streets and I love this time of year, flowers reclaiming the streets everywhere. #Rewilding #ClimateDiary
(DIR) Post #Ao3oDgUeWi2e7JfOIy by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-05-24T10:36:51Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 39/n Have to add this here. The last 14 years summarised in 4 images #UKPolitics #GE2024EDIT: here link itself too as images in screenshot i completehttps://x.com/ACORNunion/status/1793934201860792465
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2024-11-07T13:11:33Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 40/n haven’t added anything here in a while - but this needs to be posted! Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10Share surge increases Elon Musk’s fortune by $26bn in a day as Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin and Bill Gates also benefit#USelections2024https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/07/trump-victory-adds-record-wealth-richest-top-10?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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2024-11-15T07:13:45Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 41/n Ok so the reason for the long pause in this 🧵 was being made rdundant in July, by my lovely (not) employer of 13 years, Goldsmiths University. You can read all about it in this long #AcademicVenting 🧵, tracing the whole sorry saga from first rumblings in Nov ‘23 to the bitter end. But of course, #redundancy is all about money, and I think about money all the time now (I have to), so really should write it about it all here a bithttps://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/111563234050886278
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2024-11-15T07:20:56Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵42/n Firstly, I am conscious of my own #redundancy being very much part of the wider hollowing out, draining out of both public services and professional, creative industries everywhere (see many posts ⬆️). I am really scared about this - it’s strange how this is happening but not really talked about; no #unemployment crisis narrative at all, as of course most people, like me, end up not being “unemployed” but doing smaller, precarious jobs; very few of us on benefiso no stats
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2024-11-15T07:25:38Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 43/n Now of course Elon Musk - having made 2/3 of Twitter staff redundant - has been hired by Trump to head the new “Efficiency Department”. i find this prospect alone deeply, deeply scary - both in terms of public services disappearing and I feel for the 1000s who will lose their jobs. As you all know: there is absolutely nothing “efficient” about these kinds of cuts whatsoever. They are deeply destructive, nothing else. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/trump-appoints-elon-musk-government-efficiency-department
(DIR) Post #Ao3oDnbe56nKB1zZg0 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-11-15T07:33:11Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 44/n but also: #Redundancy has made me think deeply (of course!) about the role of money in personal decision making. I may be wrong but it feels like this is something we don’t talk about much, and yet it is is so central to everything! I DO want to talk about it, even if I have nothing insightful to say actually. Just a few observations. 1. Money was at core of my decisions around redundancy. I have two teenage children and a high mortgage.
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2024-11-15T07:35:41Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 45/n I could not go for lovely 0.5 offered, or for tribunal; I had to opt for enhanced redundancy. If had chosen tribunal route i would have probably been able to keep my job as the 12 who did (who were able to do so due to different financial circumstances) were all reinstalled in an even lovelier deal btw management and union. (The 64 of us eho accepted enhanced redundancy by deadline did not know this would happen).
(DIR) Post #AsPKrBDtU7BvwQXVA0 by kate@aus.social
2024-11-15T07:56:36Z
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@pvonhellermannn Sending a note from the maelstrom of redundancy negotiations. It’s chaotic and you’re right, suddenly the focus on money is acute. Your thread has been so helpful.
(DIR) Post #AsPKrYjw39UIsShunQ by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-11-15T08:18:23Z
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@kate security was just thinking about you - how are things going for you? Finally put notifications for your posts yesterday- sorry, I probably missed quite a lot
(DIR) Post #AsPKrgtniM8IBNNuHg by kate@aus.social
2024-11-15T09:52:58Z
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@pvonhellermannn It’s chaotic and sad, the communications are erratic and inconsistent, and everyone is exhausted. I’m in a calm situation as I have choices. But it’s a case study in a terrible way to treat others.
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2024-11-15T08:03:25Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 46/n 2. Money is now also so core to all my decision-making in how to spend my time, what jobs to go for - and balancing the need for money with wanting to do good, environmental work, and things I enjoy and am good at. It is quite strange, I gave a lecture at SOAS in Feb this year on “Doing Work You Believe in and be paid for it”, on the very day the Goldsmiths mass redundancies were announced (will see if I can upload recording here)
(DIR) Post #AsPKs9HWBlk2D2hF8i by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-11-15T08:11:01Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 47/n This was a combination of two papers: one on unpaid Eastbourne climate activism, one on sustainability professionals in the palm oil sector. It is very strange that I gave that lecture and wrote that paper - this is me now! I am out here in the wilderness, having to make a living, and yes, doing consultancy work. Which, of course, as I am rapidly learning, does not have to mean “selling out “ - my current work for the RSPB is really rewarding. https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/jpe/article/id/4717/
(DIR) Post #AsPKsH2DMYFmFtb8Oe by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-11-15T08:23:03Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 48/n here also a link to the other paper on Eastbourne climate activism, i’ve shared it before but doing so again as it has a brief section on what kind of work is rewarded by high salaries, and what isn’t. I still feel this is an incredibly important topic and not really talked about enough in #ClimateAction circles. Maybe we can talk about it more together here? https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4060/2/4/32
(DIR) Post #AsPKsOuM5eiifpyyG0 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-11-15T08:29:27Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 49/n Anyway, just to end for today: a huge, HUGE shout out ❤️ to everyone on here who works “freelance”, going from one projec to another (more on “projects” and projectification later - so important in itself). I am now realising the immense privilege of a secure job (not secure in my case, as it turned out), where you don’t have to think about where your money will come from in 6 months or whatever. It is a fundamentally different state of being. Everything now existential.
(DIR) Post #AsPKsWl4u23L1NhfuK by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-11-30T07:51:17Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 50/n Today adding this excellent video by @RichardJMurphy on how “the City” is not our “Jewel in the Crown”, as Rachel Reeves put it, but a parasite extracting huge amounts of money for self-enrichment. It does not add any value to the economy. So important to see the City for what it is. https://youtu.be/yZYXZR4AXSY?si=YTtLWpLD7wzzt5hd
(DIR) Post #AsPKsePkRDkClXmkls by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-11-30T08:58:07Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 51/n Richard’s video has spurred me on to do a few posts now on #PrivateEquity. Long overdue here, because private equity is at the heart of how our world works! (Just to state again: i am not an expert, just someone who is trying to make sense of our world by #FollowingTheMoney, in an eclectic 🧵)To start with basics: what is private equity? I like this clear definition by Justin Robertsonhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563460903288270
(DIR) Post #AsPKsmCDVPfqttW3n6 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-11-30T09:27:10Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 52/n The amount of wealth and assets held by private equity is vast. The biggest private equity firm of all is of course #BlackRock, founded by Larry Fink in 1988. Here is a lovely Statistica chart showing how its “assets under management” grew from $1.31 trillion (i mean, not bad) to $10.41 trillion in 2024. Bloomberg predicts they will hit $15 trillion in a few yearshttps://www.statista.com/statistics/891292/assets-under-management-blackrock/
(DIR) Post #AsPKsu2aL6itEL4TtA by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-11-30T09:30:45Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 53/n I have to go now but over the next few days just want to talk about what this means: it means that so much of the world around us - restaurants, care homes, appartment blocks, student accommodation, etc etc, is all owned by private equity; that there is no escape.
(DIR) Post #AsPKt1nHVtEdHByN96 by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2025-02-11T15:11:08Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 54/n This article is hard to stomach for all those of us currently looking for work, and not finding anything suitable, or anything at all. But it’s good that at least rising #unemployment is recognised now. My own #redundancy last year and subsequent struggles have made me so alert to all these wider structural changes; I am really scared that this may be just the beginning. Terrible combination of AI and money going only to the richhttps://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/feb/10/britons-hunting-for-a-job-uk-jobseekers-pay?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AsPKt9xV9mACbCoeBc by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2025-03-25T06:06:09Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵55/n “Keri said her father had been “powered by unconditional love” but he felt the government took advantage of the nearly 6 million people like him who care for a loved one, saving the taxpayer at least £162bn a year.”This reminded of a thought I had a while back: how salaries/wages are directly negatively correlated with love. When you do something you love, or out of love, this is instantly punished by capitalism. Carers, nursery workers - https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/mar/24/nobody-found-him-in-time-how-neglect-and-stress-led-to-the-deaths-of-a-full-time-carer-and-his-son?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AsPKtHjyDy5qjYXxCr by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2025-03-25T06:19:33Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵56/n- nurses, art gallery workers, conservation NGOs, academics, etc - all these jobs that people do out of love for something/one are poorly paid. Love is exploited. More love = less money.Only love of money itself and nothing else is rewarded with money (high salaries, bonuses, etc). Maybe not surprising - what do you expect in capitalism - but not much honesty about it. All that neoliberal motivational #Passion talk (“my work is my passion”) - exploitative bollocks.
(DIR) Post #AsPKw0UYoJBS6hdX9M by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2024-04-11T13:04:44Z
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@jackofalltrades thank you so much for this paper. I will definitely read. This is a very useful starting point for understanding lack of meaningfulaction etc
(DIR) Post #AvW0eoSQvYk6O6SXtg by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2025-05-15T06:44:12Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵57/n This LinkedIn post resonates … wanted to share here just in case there are others who are in this situation too. Also one reason I hardly ever add to this 🧵any more is that, of course, I am literally trying to #FollowTheMoney, or rather, divert some from somewhere to my bank account😄 #JobSearch #FediHirehttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/staggmacey_this-week-a-friend-told-me-theyd-taken-activity-7325917928724336641-LOlX?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAIt0BkBUaNgLl_2JLMYW8cY32uxAbZO8FY&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=copy_link
(DIR) Post #AvW0epBSEAksdjWV4S by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2025-05-15T17:03:38Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵 58/n I think so much about middle class-ness at the moment. More research in news this week how it’s the top 10%, those with incomes over £36,000, who are largely responsible for CO2 emissions; but it’s even more than that; middle-class aspirations shape everything. So conscious of this now as I am so driven in finding work so as not to have to sell our (nice, middle class, highly mortgaged house). Then a friend just sent me this - must read. #ClimateDiary
(DIR) Post #AvW0eq7ak1G9Y2ivgm by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2025-05-16T08:13:43Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵59/nMeanwhile our lovely king.. Meanwhile also, as I am listening to the radio as I am typing this: yet another horrific attack in northern #Gaza. Another 50 killed, after yesterday’s 80. This is our world. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/16/king-charles-wealth-swells-to-match-rishi-sunak-and-akshata-murty-on-uk-rich-list?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AvW0eqpY6aQBkNI2Cm by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2025-06-26T05:10:52Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵60/n “The wealth of the world’s 3,000 billionaires has surged by $6.5tn (£4.8tn) in real terms over the past decade, according to Oxfam, equivalent to 14.6% of global output”Capitalism is shit.It is by the rich for the rich and destroys everything else in the process. Let’s keep saying it! https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/26/billionaires-wealth-oxfam-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
(DIR) Post #AvW0eyFKX8CekMPDrU by pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green
2025-06-26T05:29:35Z
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#FollowTheMoney 🧵61/n Just adding this here. A little poll I did a while back! https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/113610652987592955