More leisure, better health outcomes, less inequality, less carbon emissions, all of which with broadly similar productivity:

The EU can be proud of its development model, and the Trumpists (and European conservatives that echo them) should keep it down a bit

Why?

Because neither ILO, OECD, WIL, etc. subtract the depreciation of natural capital

The US produces $81 of gross output per hour, but at a particularly high cost for the planet

The EU27 produces $71 of gross output per hour, but with dramatically less carbon emissions

Core EU has 290 million inhabitants: it's a bit smaller than the US (340m) but not much so

The key fact is that productivity in this core EU is essentially the same as in the US:

€60 per hour (corrected for price differences) using the most recent WID.world data

prod.wid.world/www-site/upl...

One arguably positive externality of the rise of reactionary capitalists in the West is that we manage to see now more than ever that the idea of 'stakeholder capitalism' was probably the best executed psy-op in the 21st century. I was personally duped into believing in it.

The liberal international order has already been brain dead for a while. Today it dies definitively.

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mad party in damascus. video by @mohamaddaboul0

This study by a pan-European environmental lobbying group shows how much of a role research methodology plays in making the numbers say whatever you want them to say. The index includes both objective and subjective measures, and a mix of various other indicators.

The butterfly effect in politics: everyone was expecting to see a radical leftist be behind the CEO assassination; he turned out to be a thielist. Thiel's ideology has strong masculinist undertones, among many other things. Is it surprising? Certainly a case study.

Having worked on #Syria full-time since the crisis began nearly 14yrs ago, there really is no understating how remarkable the losses imposed on #Assad's regime have been over the past week.

A large reason for this lies with #HTS — a 🧵:

This is why it's so important to have a public service broadcaster. We often take it for granted, especially in Europe, but serious, publicly funded press like the BBC is vital if our liberal democracies are to survive.

Many in the Middle East are starting to find out something us in Central and Eastern Europe have known for a while: that Erdogan is incredibly good at playing both sides in a conflict in order to further his own interests. Some will never forget the dramatic rallies in support of Palestine...

By granting Netanyahu immunity because Israel is not party to the Rome Statute, France has willingly granted that same immunity to Putin. International criminal law has just been permanently damaged by one of its main sponsors, France. #icc #france #putin #ukraine #netanyahu