#economic structure

[indizombie]

Ideas about Bangalore's economy being based predominantly on the IT sector and the imagery of a "world class city" are disengaged from the reality of the city's economic structure and physical form. Forced evictions, evictions of street vendors, violation of worker's rights, labour law violations, etc. are invisibilised by the corporates and invisible to the middle class - a new and rapidly evolving avatar of urban casteism.

Sylvia Karpagam and Sridhar Gowda, ‘Merit of ‘Vision’ groups and ‘Knowledge’ commissions in Karnataka’, Round Table India

[orlando-j-alvarez]

The Structure of Acceptance: When Choice Turns to Necessity

Series: The Structure of Acceptance: When Choice Becomes Necessity “When people only have one option, they are not choosing. They are surviving.” – D. L. Dantes Introduction Choice is one of the words people use often, but not every decision is made from real freedom. Sometimes people choose because they have options, and sometimes they choose because necessity has narrowed the path in front…

[theresilientphilosopher]

The Structure of Acceptance: When Choice Turns to Necessity

Series: The Structure of Acceptance: When Choice Becomes Necessity “When people only have one option, they are not choosing. They are surviving.” – D. L. Dantes Introduction Choice is one of the words people use often, but not every decision is made from real freedom. Sometimes people choose because they have options, and sometimes they choose because necessity has narrowed the path in front…

[orlando-j-alvarez]

Understanding the Interconnected Roles of Workers and Consumers

Series: The Structure of Acceptance: The Worker Is Also the Consumer “When wealth stops circulating, the market begins consuming itself.” – D. L. Dantes Introduction A healthy economy depends on circulation. Money moves, labor moves, products move, and people participate in the system not only as workers, but also as consumers. When we forget that connection, we begin to treat labor as…

[theresilientphilosopher]

Understanding the Interconnected Roles of Workers and Consumers

Series: The Structure of Acceptance: The Worker Is Also the Consumer “When wealth stops circulating, the market begins consuming itself.” – D. L. Dantes Introduction A healthy economy depends on circulation. Money moves, labor moves, products move, and people participate in the system not only as workers, but also as consumers. When we forget that connection, we begin to treat labor as…

[felinasilverwrites]

Urban Trajectories in the United States: Successes and Failures in Town-to-City Transitions

Urban Trajectories in the United States: Successes and Failures in Town-to-City Transitions

[deusvult]

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

Pope Francis