Ways of Seeing is a 1972 television series of (four) 30-minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb.

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  • culprit@lemmy.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlweighing BRICS
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    5 days ago

    Otherwise what would be the point if everyone thinks it is useless?

    Capitalism trying to convince people it is still relevant and viable.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gdp-is-the-wrong-tool-for-measuring-what-matters/

    These examples illustrate the disjuncture between GDP and societal well-being and the many ways that GDP fails to be a good measure of economic performance. The growth in GDP before 2008 was not sustainable, and it was not sustained. The increase in bank profits that seemed to fuel GDP in the years before the crisis was not only at the expense of the well-being of the many people whom the financial sector exploited but also at the expense of GDP in later years. The increase in inequality was by any measure hurting our society, but GDP was celebrating the banks’ successes. If there ever was an event that drove home the need for new ways of measuring economic performance and societal progress, the 2008 crisis was it.



  • culprit@lemmy.mlOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlhappy campers
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    6 days ago

    Quite the opposite in fact, they were directly inspired by previous settler-colonialism and successful genocide.

    Writing in “Mein Kampf” in the 1920s, Hitler praised the way the “Aryan” America conquered “its own continent” by clearing the “soil” of “natives” to make room for more “racially pure” settlers and lay the foundation for its economic self-sufficiency and growing global power. Indeed, the concept of Lebensraum was coined and popularized by Friedrich Razel, who said his theory of colonization and racial replacement drew inspiration from the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis” and its identification of “colonization of the Great West” as central to American history and identity.