A concerning read.

Happy new year. Make this the year you take back fitness culture from the far-right. #hny #happynewyear #newyear2026 #ny2026 #auspol #resolutions alexwhite.org/2025/12/time...

Definitely those things will happen, just need to get to one trillion first baybee

“the Left must engage with fitness culture, as a core political battleground and an essential part of political materialism” alexwhite.org/2025/12/time... #auspol #fitness #fitnessculture #politics #leftpolitics

The massive increase in wealth inequality and wealth extraction from the immiserated majority to the billionaire-class is the primary driver of right-wing extremism. alexwhite.org/2025/12/what... #auspol #rightwingextremism #inequality

The housing crisis is a banking created (or at least, banking worsened) system that upwardly redistributes money from everyday people, workers and the middle classes, to the ultra-rich. alexwhite.org/2025/12/what... #auspol

Very interesting essay about why women use AI less than men, and are less optimistic overall about technology and AI thenoosphere.substack.com/p/theres-a-r... #ai #artificialintelligence #llm #gender

There is basically no upper limit to how unaffordable housing can get. Here's why alexwhite.org/2025/12/what... #auspol #housingcrisis #housingaffordability #housing

The global ruling elite are terrified of young people. Here's why: alexwhite.org/2025/12/no-f... #auspol #mdg #sdg #genz #generationz #dissent

There's so much evidence that the "wealth industry" are just parasites. alexwhite.org/2025/12/path... #auspol #wealth #financialservices #fire

It's almost a new year. If there's something we can all try to push for in 2026, it's a wealth tax. Here's why: alexwhite.org/2025/12/what... #auspol #wealthtax #inequality

Wild for an industry to admit that its business model is based on scamming customers #auspol #scams

Decided to write an entire blog post about this - what is going on with Australian politics, One Nation and the far right? alexwhite.org/2025/11/demo... #auspol

The Stiglitz G20 inequality report shows unequivocally that inequality is a choice, inequality has reached dangerous, catastrophic levels, and that inequality can and must be reversed. alexwhite.org/2025/11/the-... #auspol #inequality #wealthtax

If we refuse conflict because we are afraid of being “divisive,” we in effect surrender to the oligarchs. alexwhite.org/2025/01/the-... #auspol

"But how effective is this type of collective action? According to historians and political scientists who study protest: very." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

What if there was one simple trick to solving the extreme problem of billionaires? There is: wealth taxes. alexwhite.org/2025/12/what... #auspol #billionaires #inequality

Ultimately, we do not have a housing market; we have a debt market that uses houses as collateral. (AKA: How commercial banks have created the housing crisis.) #housing #auspol #housingcrisis alexwhite.org/2025/12/what...

Of course The Australian would publish an opinion piece like this — the role of News Ltd and The Australian is to be the PR agency for right-wing financial capital. #auspol alexwhite.org/2025/12/the-...

What if there was one simple trick to solving the extreme problem of wealth inequality? There is. A wealth tax. #auspol #wealthtax alexwhite.org/2025/12/what...

"Rather than exploring creative possibilities, autonomous AI loops appear to gravitate toward what could be called visual elevator music." #ai #aiart #llm #largelanguagemodels #genai #generativeai #drift www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

What's going on with the surge in One Nation? #auspol alexwhite.org/2025/12/the-...

The bottom 20 percent of people are effectively non-participants in the Australian economy beyond basic survival. They are excluded from the social contract of asset ownership. #auspol alexwhite.org/2025/12/the-...

The opinion piece by wealth manager CEO Will Hamilton in The Australian is a masterclass in the ideological projection of victimhood by the rent-seeking class. #auspol #ausfin alexwhite.org/2025/12/the-...

The RBA as a blunt instrument for siphoning wealth from working and middle classes to the ultra-wealthy.

The point of DOGE, obviously, was not to save money but to disrupt and punish the administrative state, so they would acquiesce to Trump. The cruelty was a fringe benefit.

What if increasing land tax lowered the cost of housing? #auspol #springst alexwhite.org/2025/12/what...

The "billionaire enclosure" extends to the things we need for basic survival. Housing, health care, community safety, energy and water. alexwhite.org/2025/12/the-...

Just listened to this and it is a really great podcast episode. Definitely recommend.

@sarahebond.bsky.social hi, wonder if there's much scholarship about the Antiquity labour collegium/unions and magic/superstition practices? I.e. both are tied to subaltern populations.

Extreme heat hurts the most disadvantaged, another example of why wealth inequality must be urgently tackled thepoint.com.au/news/251218-...

Catastrophe in Sudan is tier 2 - a real admission that African lives don't matter to the US foreign policy, security and military establishment www.cfr.org/report/confl...

I'm highly supportive of the Victorian Government’s latest value capture land tax announcement for the Suburban Rail Loop. The developer levy and windfall gains tax ensures the public benefits from the development around the SRL.

The latest Jerico article correctly points out that the tax system is massively distorted in favour of the rich, but the real disparity is wealth inequality rather than income. www.theguardian.com/business/gro... @grogsgamut.bsky.social

The central feature of capitalism is not consumption but production. Capitalists don't produce because people want to consume but because production allows for extraction of value - consumption is itself manufactured through creation of desire. substack.com/@alexwhite/n...

The thing about landlords "fleeing" the rental market is that that the actual houses vaporise, preventing for all time anyone ever living there again. www.realestate.com.au/news/1000s-o... #auspol #springst

What if you were "pre-poor"? alexwhite.org/2025/12/the-...

There's a realignment in Australian politics, but it is very fragile alexwhite.org/2025/12/the-... #auspol

Five or fewer companies make or own basically everything youtube.com/shorts/lzdpS...

"Liberalism won on paper and then stalled in practice." www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-henhou...

What if there was one simple trick to solving the extreme problem of wealth inequality? alexwhite.org/2025/12/what...

"Accent Research principal Shaun Ratcliff said as well as gender and age, the other common denominator behind the One Nation vote was financial stress." www.afr.com/politics/fed...

The Stiglitz G20 inequality report shows unequivocally that inequality is a choice, inequality has reached dangerous, catastrophic levels, and that inequality can and must be reversed. alexwhite.org/2025/11/the-...

There is a specific genre of journalism that the corporate press reserves for threats to the ruling class. Chip Le Grand's latest is a perfect example of propaganda designed to keep us poor. share.google/BXByNhdP4UCU...

There is a specific genre of journalism that the corporate press reserves for threats to the ruling class... alexwhite.org/2025/11/what...

There's 100,000 houses in Melbourne sitting vacant during a housing crisis. A significant cause of this is the financialisation of our housing, where professional investors basically gamble (speculate) on massive profits from future capital gains.

"the number of empty dwellings across Melbourne rose from 27,408 to nearly 32,000, increasing ...from 1.5 per cent in 2023 to 1.7 per cent in 2024" Time to increase the vacancy charge - it's pure financial profiteering from landlords that needs to stop! www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

Awful coverage from Reuters about the wealth tax in Norway that frames the wealth tax not as a democratic tool for redistribution, but as an economic danger that inconveniences the ultra-wealthy! Not to mention that billionaire-flight is a debunked myth! www.reuters.com/business/nor...

Kehoe is correct that there is a monopoly problem in Australia but he is telling on himself when he focuses on two areas (law and medicine) where there a fair bit of competition rather than supermarkets, newspapers and publishing or banking where there are real monopolies and cartels.

Call me old fashioned but perhaps apprentices should have their wages increased so there's no need for these government funded allowances. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...