Tag: debt
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Slavery is a crime against humanity because it claims ownership of a person. The Rome Statute defines enslavement as “the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person”, and it treats that exercise as a crime against humanity when committed as part of a widespread or…
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The problem Every society has work that must be done and cannot be sold. The barn after the fire. The drainage ditch before the spring. The canal dug by hand because there is no capital to dig it any other way. The widow’s roof. The market will not supply this labour, because the market prices…
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The Powell Memo: The Blueprint Nobody Reads But Everyone Lives In August 1971, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell—soon to be elevated to the Supreme Court—sent a confidential memorandum to his friend Eugene Sydnor at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He titled it “Attack on American Free Enterprise System.” The tone was martial. Powell wrote:…