Source: https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
"On average, extreme inequality is costing the median income full-time worker about $42,000 a year. Adjusted for inflation using the CPI, the numbers are even worse: half of all full-time workers (those at or below the median income of $50,000 a year) now earn less than half what they would have had incomes across the distribution continued to keep pace with economic growth. And that’s per worker, not per household."
We are getting stolen from everyday by the billionaire class who have bought themselves politicians and the media to keep you from getting what you deserve
One way to help is spread the message to users on other platforms. Talk about DRS as much as you can and there is even stickers and business cards that are created by the whydrs team to help spread the DRS message IRL
Great write up Chives. The more we learn about DRS and actually owning your shares so no broker can get their hands on them the better!
This is a good place to have the DD in a forum as twitter is not that great for it. A way to bring content over from twitter is to cross post over here. Nice thing is the DRSyourGME team also has a server here so we are truly becoming decentralized. Here is the DRSyourGME community Lemmy: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/
Thank you Ross! For those that don't know DRSyourGME was also banned from reddit and have taken refuge here:https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/
It is a community that are invested in BBBY. We have followed the bankruptcy process and dockets to better understand our investments. There is a belief that Ryan Cohen who is listed as a creditor and interested party will buy BBBY and merge it into a new company to challenge Amazon. There was a subreddit called thePPshow but was banned by reddit. They also have a Youtube livestream where they discuss and just today had Bill Pulte join.
Same but also felt there have been so many stories that I have been missing. Another issue with US based media is it only focuses on the US vs the world which creates just as much issues. We are very interconnected with everyone and the criminals at the top do not care about borders. Many of these organizations I linked do a great job looking at global problems from journalist directly on the ground and are local
“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'” ~George Orwell, “1984”
Every day we are subject to corporate propaganda and we do not even notice it. Our beliefs and core values get influenced and neighbors are pitted against each other. The news we see is increasingly spreading fear creating a darker and darker world around us. We need alternatives. We need independent journalism that is more widespread.
Some Stanford professors coined the term the Dune affect: "The Dune affect, which states that those who control the media control the opinions of the people"
"Modern propaganda uses all the media available to spread its message, including: press, radio, television, film, computers, fax machines, posters, meetings, door-to-door canvassing, handbills, buttons, billboards, speeches, flags, street names, monuments, coins, stamps, books, plays, comic strips, poetry, music, sporting events, cultural events, company reports, libraries, and awards and prizes. It is most likely that some of these media uses are surprising, but that only serves to show how easy it is to not even recognize propaganda as such. For the purpose of our paper we will focus on mainly the usage of the press in their tactics of shaping people's opinions. The press (newspapers and magazines) is important because the most current news and issues are spread every day through them.
Indeed, propaganda is so powerful because everyone is susceptible to it. This is true as explained by Robert Cialdini, an expert in influence, because people exist in a rapidly moving and complex world. In order to deal with it, we need shortcuts. We cannot be expected to recognize and analyze all the aspects in each person, event, and situation we encounter in even one day. We do not have the time, energy, or capacity to process the information; and instead we must very often use our stereotypes, our rules of thumb, to classify things according to a few key features and then to respond without thinking when one or another of these trigger feature are present (Cialdini 6). While this makes people highly susceptible to a propagandist who understands persuasion, in general it is the most efficient for of behaving, and in other cases it is simply necessary. Additionally, propaganda includes the reinforcement of societal myths and stereotypes that are so deeply embedded within a culture that it is often difficult to recognize the message as propaganda."
Our media has become increasingly centralized and has been taken over by the billionaire oligarchy. Corporate Propaganda media is controlled by 15 billionaires ahem oligarchs
Here are some organizations that look into corruption and do investigative journalism:
International Consortium of Investigative Journalist (the people who broke the Panama Papers, Pandora Papers and just last week Cyprus Papers)
The Signal Network (Whistle blowers)
Anti Corruption Data Collective
Global Investigative Journalism Network
International Journalist Network
Future Crunch (positive news)
International Federation of Journalist
I will leave with this video which encompasses how wide spread this problem is: This is extremely Dangerous to Democracy
There are also more loop holes such as if you own a Yacht or private jets you can use it as a tax write off, if you own horses for horse racing you can also deduct it off taxes along with owning your own sports team. ProPublica has done an amazing job with investigating tax loopholes
This may be relevant: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/vwldv8/crazy_wild_speculation_on_bbbygme_connection/
TLDR: Theory is AST who is owned by Equiniti getting bought by Gamestop and then BBBYQ shares and subsequently Teddy shares go on blockchain and the NFT marketplace
I have been doing some research on this and contacting organizations. You can find my posts here:
https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/24204
https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/173450
https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/225079
An AIG will be perfect in using our voice within the market. It will give us more credibility with the SEC and the Company. We will be able to push for changes on DRS and if need be getting a board seat to speak to what we would like. There are so many changes that can be made with shareholder resolutions:https://www.whydrs.org/shareholder-proposals-guide
Sadly there is not that much information out there in how to create one. We will be the first of hopefully many. With this organization we can push for DRS in not only gamestop but also the whole market. ShareAction whom I have contact with targets Asset managers and Pension funds to support their proposals on ESG. This puts pressure on the company and encourages change and will gradually put pressure on other companies to do the same. Wall Street really does not like Activist investors as they mess with their game they have rigged. Imagine if household investors who are getting introduced more and more to the market learn about the power of shares and the benefits of being invested in a company.
Welcome! Sadly reddit has been suppressing DRS talk for awhile now but luckily we found a place to discuss and push for more advocacy