Alex White
@alexjpwhite.bsky.social
Working hard for Australia
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I wonder what happens when big businesses like Westpac are left to find the balance...
November 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I wonder what happens when big businesses like Westpac are left to find the balance...
"it was clearly time to get the elaborate machinery of manufactured bewilderment and sour indignation up and running again"
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November 8, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"it was clearly time to get the elaborate machinery of manufactured bewilderment and sour indignation up and running again"
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November 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
This is worth a read. It also grapples with the fundamental question of "what next?" How will Mamdani work with the equivalent of the New York City Council "deep state"?
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November 5, 2025 at 9:37 PM
This is worth a read. It also grapples with the fundamental question of "what next?" How will Mamdani work with the equivalent of the New York City Council "deep state"?
www.jphilll.com/p/zohran-mam...
www.jphilll.com/p/zohran-mam...
When "economists" talk about "discipline", they mean the demand from the billionaire-class to inflict fewer services and job cuts on everyday people. The discipline is not fewer luxury apartments for the uktra-rich and less profit-gouging for shareholders.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
When "economists" talk about "discipline", they mean the demand from the billionaire-class to inflict fewer services and job cuts on everyday people. The discipline is not fewer luxury apartments for the uktra-rich and less profit-gouging for shareholders.
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The number one barrier for apprentices completing their apprenticeship is low wages. Australia needs more apprentices and we need more skilled tradespeople. The number one thing preventing that is the below-poverty wages that most apprentices are paid.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The number one barrier for apprentices completing their apprenticeship is low wages. Australia needs more apprentices and we need more skilled tradespeople. The number one thing preventing that is the below-poverty wages that most apprentices are paid.
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There's an extreme and excessive rate of profits being gouged at the same time that inflation is starting to go up again.
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November 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
There's an extreme and excessive rate of profits being gouged at the same time that inflation is starting to go up again.
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Many years ago, I used to think that there would be some kind of upper limit for house prices. But now that I better understand how plutonomy and financial capitalism works, I realise that there is basically no upper limit.
November 2, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Many years ago, I used to think that there would be some kind of upper limit for house prices. But now that I better understand how plutonomy and financial capitalism works, I realise that there is basically no upper limit.
Persistent high prices is keeping interest rates high... Where are those high prices (inflation) coming from?
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Persistent high prices is keeping interest rates high... Where are those high prices (inflation) coming from?
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“When you cut public service jobs, you’re not just cutting that person, their wage and the on-costs associated with their wage,” Hanna said.
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October 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
“When you cut public service jobs, you’re not just cutting that person, their wage and the on-costs associated with their wage,” Hanna said.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
October 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The net profit attributable to Rio Tinto in 2024 was $11.6 billion (2023: $10.1 billion).
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October 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
The net profit attributable to Rio Tinto in 2024 was $11.6 billion (2023: $10.1 billion).
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A defining feature of plutonomy is that the system works almost entirely for the ultra-wealthy and can increasingly sustain itself solely from the spending of the ultra-wealthy. Consumer spending from everyday people is increasingly irrelevant under plutonomy.
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
A defining feature of plutonomy is that the system works almost entirely for the ultra-wealthy and can increasingly sustain itself solely from the spending of the ultra-wealthy. Consumer spending from everyday people is increasingly irrelevant under plutonomy.
A core concept of capitalism before social democracy was "surplus population" - which is now back in vogue with US conservatives.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A core concept of capitalism before social democracy was "surplus population" - which is now back in vogue with US conservatives.
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From Dec 2019 to June 2023 profits made by large corporations were excessive: some $100 billion over and above their pre-pandemic profit margins.
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October 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
From Dec 2019 to June 2023 profits made by large corporations were excessive: some $100 billion over and above their pre-pandemic profit margins.
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Remember when billionaires told us they were job creators...
October 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Remember when billionaires told us they were job creators...
Lots of support for limits on rent increases - something I was very proud to help champion in the ACT.
October 23, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Lots of support for limits on rent increases - something I was very proud to help champion in the ACT.
Low wage growth, not immigration, is major structural failure that worsens the housing crisis (according to the recent MQ Uni research)
October 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Low wage growth, not immigration, is major structural failure that worsens the housing crisis (according to the recent MQ Uni research)
Wow. The AiG says community sector workers should be locked up for 12 months for attending a rally for equal pay!
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October 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Wow. The AiG says community sector workers should be locked up for 12 months for attending a rally for equal pay!
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
Everyday people are struggling and the solution from the Big Business lobby (who are price gouging and making massive profits) is to take away rights from 1 million workers.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Everyday people are struggling and the solution from the Big Business lobby (who are price gouging and making massive profits) is to take away rights from 1 million workers.
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
The problem of human poverty is one of distribution, not scarcity.
October 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The problem of human poverty is one of distribution, not scarcity.
A major (but not only) purpose of the AI investments by hedge funds and billionaires is to discipline the developers, who were able to command a large premium for their labour. The plutocrats in other industries also see this benefit for their own higher-wage workforce.
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October 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
A major (but not only) purpose of the AI investments by hedge funds and billionaires is to discipline the developers, who were able to command a large premium for their labour. The plutocrats in other industries also see this benefit for their own higher-wage workforce.
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What the AI industry needs to make up this revenue shortfall is more videos of 1980s nostalgia-bait for millennials.
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October 18, 2025 at 5:34 AM
What the AI industry needs to make up this revenue shortfall is more videos of 1980s nostalgia-bait for millennials.
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