Apple doesn't want you to be able to repair your iPhone.

This is a good example of how corporations often look to increase their profit in ways that don't actually create value for consumers, and lobby governments to help them do it.
Aside from costing consumers' extra money, this kind of drive toward endless sale of new products is tremendously wasteful and environmentally costly.
One particularly crazy example: Clothing manufacturers literally shred or burn billions of dollars worth of clothes every year in order to prop up the prices for "fast fashion" lines they churn out every season.

vox.com/the-goods/2018…
Say it with us: 👏the ability to turn a profit and creating social value are not the same thing!👏
...which is not, by the way, the same as saying that companies competing in the market place don't create socially valuable things. Of course they do.

But to stay sane, the market needs human and ethical values that it can't produce for itself.

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26 Jan
Let's talk about "social justice."

The phrase, that is.

Social justice has always been one of our party's core commitments. Occasionally, however, we hear from people who like our platform but get squirrely about the term.

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(The ASP Polandball is unrelated, we just think it's cute.)
Anyway, some people tend to associate social justice with "cancel culture" or with policy positions like abortion-on-demand that we oppose.

(Abortion is a social justice issue, by the way, just not the way its proponents think it is).
Read 18 tweets
9 Dec 20
We're getting close to a full tally of the votes the Carroll-Patel campaign received. Nearly half of our votes were write-ins, and those often take a long time to tally as well as, in some cases, some prodding of the election authorities.

Here's what we have:
Here we list our results in each state where we received votes and compare results to 2016.

NR = Not recorded last time.

Wisconsin- 5,259 votes, 0.159%; 284 in 2016 as write-in
Illinois- 9,548 votes, 0.158%; NR in 2016
Rhode Island= 767 votes, 0.148%; 46 in 2016 as write-in
Kansas- 583 votes, 0.042%; 214 in 2016
Minnesota- 1,037 votes, 0.032%; 244 in 2016
Tennessee- 762 votes*, 0.031%; NR in 2016
Indiana- 893 votes, 0.029%; NR in 2016
Texas- 3,207 votes, 0.028%; 1401 in 2016
Maryland- 1,588 votes, 0.026%; 504 in 2016
Read 9 tweets
8 Dec 20
He wasn't wrong. Image
This is true! Certainly, the relative share of the economic pie is not the same thing as the size of the pie. And policymakers should bear incentives and unintended consequences in mind.

That said...

If we observe that relative and absolute measures of wealth are different, then it also follows that growth in absolute levels of wealth can coexist with other kinds of problems caused by skewed distribution.
Read 6 tweets
1 Dec 20
There's nothing inherently wrong, as far as it goes, with corporate boards looking for members from different backgrounds.

People shouldn't mistake this for meaningful advances in social justice, though. For ordinary Americans, this is window dressing.

wsj.com/articles/nasda…
The concentration of corporate power in a few hands is a big problem even if a few of those hands happen to be different colors.
It's not exactly a coincidence, either, that corporate America is increasingly enthusiastic for "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" at a time when economic inequality and insecurity (which disproportionately affects minority groups) is as bad as its been in decades.
Read 6 tweets
30 Nov 20
Our old friends at PragerU just came out with a "was Jesus a socialist?" video that concludes with Jesus helping a homeless man become an entrepreneur with the aid of a wealthy investor.

Biblical interpretation isn't really our primary role, but perhaps something is amiss here.
It's hard to see this as anything other than a strained attempt to align religion with a secular political ideology (and, obviously, people do this on the left as well).

That's not good either for politics or for religion.
We're a non-sectarian org, but many of are members are committed Christians (and members of other faiths too!) who see the ASP as one way they can live out their faith in the public sphere.

That's a different thing than subordinating faith to partisanship.
Read 5 tweets
29 Nov 20
Let's have a thread about what the American Dream means today.

solidarity-party.org/2020/11/20/the…
A lot of you have probably suffered from less contact with family and friends this year during the pandemic, perhaps especially around the holidays.

Millions of Americans are right there with you. But for many of them, isolation is an everyday reality in the best of times,
One pre-election survey on the strength of Americans’ social networks found that nearly one in five Americans (17 percent) reported having no one they were close with, marking a 9 percentage point increase from 2013. Most of this was not due to the pandemic.
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