Kayel
@Kayel@aussie.zone
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, still off topic. This really was meant to be a global economics piece, not a politics piece.
Obviously I think more needs to be done on housing - end capt. gains discount for property, neg. gearing. But agreed.
What do you is going to happen when the Americans wake up? I think both of us are going to get some replies.
I might delete my comments. This was off topic
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
Is the change in unequal exchange more impactful than Capital accumulation, etc. - I’d like to know. Either way, cost of living is not improving.
I am interested in critical response on whether the increase in productivity will balance out the equalisation of exchange.
But my, unsubstantiated, view is equalisation of trade will increase cost of living even with productivity considered.
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
Trade with China is essential to Australia, don’t get me wrong, the profit of the trade has, and will, change.
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
I am referring to unequal trade, - us getting more in return from the Global South (Asia, south america, Africa, etc.) for what we’re giving them.
www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-59881-1
globalinequality.org/unequal-exchange/
This is true for our trade with China, but I am specifically speaking generally.
Does that answer your question?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 57 comments
- Comment on Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income 3 weeks ago:
No. These policies don’t.
Which policy and why?
- Comment on Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income 4 weeks ago:
Do not tax income
- Tax wealth
- Take royalties for mining
- Remove the capital gains discount
An income tax is an attack on workers
- Comment on Australians could keep more of their wages if we rebalanced taxes on other forms of income 4 weeks ago:
Do not tax income
- Tax wealth
- Take royalties for mining
- Remove the capital gains discount
An income tax is an attack on workers
- Comment on Australian Government funnelled $2.5B to Israeli arms manufacturers 4 weeks ago:
The article is very clear on the timeline.
Funnelled is correct, these contracts are not easy to get access to.
I would also be interested in a further breakdown of contracts and time frames. I suggest Defence release this information.
As stated further down, the genocide has been going on for many decades. Australia is complicit.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 2 comments
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- Comment on 2 months ago:
Neoliberalism is reaching its natural conclusion, coupled with the gradual fall of colonialism, is going to lead to a permanent crash for the working class.
While Trump is being loud, the project to divide the US working class by ethnicity has been ongoing always, and began ramping up this century.
It will be required as all production is centralised within a handful of families. And the global south can no longer be relied on for cheap resources and manufacturing for middle class treats.
The US doesn’t have a union presence, nor does it have understanding of left politics. Conditions will get worse and worse every decade.
- Comment on As China prepares to invade Taiwan, a reality check: sitting on the sidelines won’t help Australia 2 months ago:
There’s also the insinuation China would interfere with our trade in the region.
Based on what? Nothing.
Oh, unless we do blindly follow the US into another war and cut ourselves off to half our shipping lanes and trade partners.
The media is a joke. Fucking CIA bullshit
- Comment on 'Public schools do the really heavy lifting' and will finally be 'fairly' funded 5 months ago:
I don’t read 9 & Murdoch media. But bloody hell, the only mention of a political party is ‘the coalition have promised to continue funding’.
No mention the reason it’s been underfunded is the Libs and it’s been both state and federal labor who have made these changes.
One month from an elecnion