Reflections

Regarding the origin of society and laws

That was, or should have been, the origin of society and laws, which provided new obstacles to the weak and new strengths to the rich, hopelessly destroyed natural freedom. It forever and ever fixed the law of property and inequality, out of a skillful usurpation they made an irrevocable right, and for the benefit of a few ambitious they hereunder subdued the entire human race to work, servitude, and misery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, XVIII century

Regarding freeing up time to revitalize society

There is no capitalism without expansion, but now the word expansion only means devastation, war, environmental ruin, extinction, a perspective that for the first time in human history has become not only possible but also probable. In this sense, capitalism inevitably leads to extinction. Only if we start a process of redistribution of wealth and, at the same time, develop a program of frugality in consumption, we can imagine an exit from the apocalypses. It is necessary to reduce the working time to free time for concrete activity of revitalization of society: teaching, healing, and creation.

Franco Berardi

Regarding energy rates and subsidies

Policy of energy rates and subsidies is determinant for making ever more people have the right to energy guaranteed or, on the contrary, that it becomes an exclusive service for those who can afford it. (…) Moreover, it is central for the productive sector as low energy rates generate competitive advantages in front of other countries and prohibitive rates influence in the closing of factories. A third essential issue is the impact of rates in inflation …

David Cufré