Full-time writers in the UK earn less than minimum wage, on the average.

Authors now get only 3% of the publishers' sales totals. The publishers have some gall claiming that their demands to crush sharing are in the name of authors.

We should legalize sharing copies of any published work, and support authors by other methods such as crowdfunding and anonymous voluntary payments. As for the publishers, they are no longer vital nowadays.

More generally, we should reject the idea that corporations' main duty is to "make money for their shareholders". That idea was not generally accepted 40 years ago, and we should reject it now.

The Federal Trade Commission is half-hearted about stopping companies from merging, but really energetic about preventing workers labeled as "independent contractors" from bargaining collectively.

The UK is subject to a military-industrial complex that feeds off dreams of the grandeur of the British Empire. It's very profitable for the weapons companies that build weapons for a conventional war that is unlikely to occur.

Protesters have occupied and blocked several of the deportation thug agency's facilities.

I think this is why the sadist wants to imprison immigrants on military bases.

Putting an end to homelessness is not rocket science. It requires building a lot more non-luxury housing and subsidizing rent for those too poor. But the US is too plutocratic to do it.