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Ecologia Digital<p><a href="https://mato.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> + the question of <a href="https://mato.social/tags/ownership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ownership</span></a>: "<a href="https://mato.social/tags/TeHiku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeHiku</span></a> shows that when AI tools are built by organizations with entirely different <a href="https://mato.social/tags/incentive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>incentive</span></a> structures in place, they can produce wildly different results. As long as AI is designed for the purposes of the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/competitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>competitive</span></a> <a href="https://mato.social/tags/accumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accumulation</span></a> of capital, firms will continue to find ways to exploit labor, degrade the environment, take short cuts in data extraction, and compromise on safety, because if they don’t, one of their competitors will."</p><p><a href="https://jacobin.com/2025/07/altman-openai-artificial-intelligence-labor-environment-deepseek" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2025/07/altman-ope</span><span class="invisible">nai-artificial-intelligence-labor-environment-deepseek</span></a></p>
Eric Maugendre<p>"The wealthier a household was in 1990, the quicker its wealth has accumulated in the years since. While the top 1% grew its share of total household wealth, all other U.S. wealth groups have seen their shares decrease."</p><p><a href="https://archive.is/20250430155240/https://www.wsj.com/economy/1-trillion-richest-families-wealth-increase-bc13874a" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.is/20250430155240/http</span><span class="invisible">s://www.wsj.com/economy/1-trillion-richest-families-wealth-increase-bc13874a</span></a> h/t <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://socks.masto.host/@John" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>John</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/accumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accumulation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/redirection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>redirection</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/appropriation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>appropriation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/neoliberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberalism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/RonaldReagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RonaldReagan</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/taxes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taxes</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/assets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assets</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/savings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>savings</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/estate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>estate</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>property</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ownership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ownership</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>finance</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/inequalities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inequalities</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/concentration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>concentration</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/families" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>families</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/TaxTheRich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaxTheRich</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a></p>
Nathaniel Gregory<p>What's striking about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalist</span></a> civilization is that it has no real direction. There's no vision for social <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/progress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>progress</span></a>, no commitment to improving <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/welfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>welfare</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecology</span></a>. All we get is the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chaos</span></a> of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/profit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>profit</span></a>-oriented <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/production" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>production</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accumulation</span></a> as the world burns around us.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DNC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RNC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoeBiden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimWalz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a></p>
Xamanismo Coletivo<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TeenVogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TeenVogue</span></a>: "It’s really a question of whether anyone can ever be “self-made,” or whether this is the language of a larger myth that justifies wealth <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inequality</span></a>. The self-made myth conceals the multitude of barriers to wealth <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/accumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accumulation</span></a> and reinforces the notion that if you’re poor, it’s because you’re lazy or made bad choices. The notion that a <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/billionaire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billionaire</span></a> has worked hard for every penny of their wealth is simply fanciful."</p><p><a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/billionaires-should-not-exist" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">teenvogue.com/story/billionair</span><span class="invisible">es-should-not-exist</span></a></p>
AGF : poemproducer<p><a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/Patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Patriarchy</span></a> and <a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/Accumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accumulation</span></a> on a World Scale</p><p><a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> in the International Division of <a href="https://systerserver.town/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labour</span></a></p><p>Maria Mies (Author) , Silvia Federici (Foreword) 2022</p><p><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/patriarchy-and-accumulation-on-a-world-scale-9781350348189/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bloomsbury.com/uk/patriarchy-a</span><span class="invisible">nd-accumulation-on-a-world-scale-9781350348189/</span></a></p>
Eric Maugendre<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/economics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>economics</span></a></span></p><p>If you don’t spend — if you hold or “save” money — it stays in your bank account and the aggregate stock is unchanged.</p><p>In the long run, asset prices go up.<br>The most powerful wealth multiplicators are real estate and equities (aka. property and shares).</p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/accumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accumulation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/assets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assets</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/savings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>savings</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/estate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>estate</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/realEstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>realEstate</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>property</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>family</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ownership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ownership</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/riches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>riches</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/shares" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shares</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/equities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>equities</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/holdings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>holdings</span></a></p>
Coach Mark<p>It is still snowing - albeit a bit more slowly. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Accumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accumulation</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Snowstorm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Snowstorm</span></a></p>
Eric Maugendre<p>Saving (ie. revenues minus spending) does not even come close to explaining the accumulation of household wealth (ie. assets and net worth).<br>⸺<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/wealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealth</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/accumulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accumulation</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/assets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assets</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/savings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>savings</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/estate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>estate</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/property" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>property</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/family" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>family</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ownership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ownership</span></a></p>