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Kaffe 🇵🇸
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Kaffe (cough-uh), yes like coffee | decolonial marxism leninism, Tecumsehist | Black/mixed (New Afrikan) | 20s
Aug 1 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
Kaffe would say Cockshott's work is cockshot

Crossa in MR analyzes exchange between Mexico and the US (The Maquiladoras). Labor Productivity in Mexican exports from 2008 and 2022 rose 42% while wages DROPPED 25%. Image Could any sensible person claim that the UK is *more developed* and *productive* than Southeast China? Seriously? How about Norway?

Cockshott is completely comfortable claiming that Norwegians embody $100 value of labor into the world.

Jul 31 • 30 tweets • 7 min read
The reporting in San Diego County about the impact of Blackstone uses this report produced by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project. This is where reporting like "avg rent increase in Blackstone properties is 38%" comes from. They use a private database and compute weighted avgs Image
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Image I took interest to the top property here, because the rent increase shown over two and half years is illegal. The increase is 22.9% yoy, California law caps rent increases at 5% + CPI or 10%, whichever is lower.
May 3 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
It's not without intense historical research that I say "Americans" only get along so far as they keep winning offensive (as they've only been) wars and taking home those spoils. American behavior during "natural disasters" exposes this reality. Most Americanized groups reference three specific wars that particularly made them feel like they actually belonged to a real nation: WW1, WW2, and the "War on Terror"/ aka the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Feb 21 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Silver unblock me fam, do the math on the value form that prisoners could possibly produce.

Actually, just look at the MIM article I posted.

Let's imagine states don't garnish the actual minimum wage prisoners are paid for industrial labor, and assume they are unpaid completely If all of them are put to work at zero wage they'd only produce $25B/yr (reality is like $14-15B as 4/10 don't work at all, even then, most are not producing commodities but cleaning cell blocks and other maintenances)

And even that assumes paying a free worker would be $10/hr!