Not your father's FaceBook.
In the autumn of 2011, the Occupy movement faced social media difficulties as Yahoo blocked users from receiving messages featuring the words “Occupy Wall Street.” In January 2012, the Occupy movement engineers its own solution. Google has removed websites for offending the sensibilities of hostile state.
What to do? Say hello to Occupy’s own social media experiment, named occupii. Those who sign up can join groups, write blogs, share videos or photos and post notice of activist events.Occupii started up on Friday, December 30, and membership is expanding fairly quickly. By the 3rd of January, there were 1200 members, and today there are over 2000. The social network started up in the UK, but membership in the American group has just surpassed membership in the Occupy UK group.
Read it ar Irregular Times
by Jim Cook
3 comments:
I don't get why MMTers are getting bogged down in J.G arguments over what is and is not productive.
J.G Jobs need not be Productive
Shaun H.
Part of the issue is price stability. Carney has argued that the JG will be massively inflationary. Part of his reasoning for this conclusion, I believe, is that the people hired will not be producing valuable new goods and services for sale on the market, but will only be receiving income that goes to chase existing goods and services. Hence, demand-pull inflation.
Hard to make that case with such slack in the economy. There are millions of homes sitting empty, factories under-utilized, hospital beds empty, classrooms with available seats, research facilities closing that could remain open, etc.
Moreover, not all workers will be engaged in "make-work" types of jobs. Surely there will be some involved in the production of real goods and services. (A vast majority, I would imagine.)
Lots of people who have been laid off due to the recession have useable skills; it's no like they're bums. They're teachers, cops, firemen, scientists, factory workers, construction workers, etc.
By the way, I wonder what Carney has to say about speculation? We allow Wall Street banks and individuals to speculate on food and fuel for profit. That adds nothing to the economy, but increases the cost to everyone. If he's worried about inflation, how about starting with a ban on speculation in those things?
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