Maybe we should find a better system than Capitalism?

How capitalism"works": (1) employers underpay wages to boost profits, (2) squeezed workers cannot afford what employers need to sell, (3) employers lend their boosted profits to underpaid workers, adding debt to their problems.

Capitalism’s greatest success has been convincing us that exploitation, inequality, grotesque overconsumption & the decimation of our life support systems is ‘normal’. It isn’t. And all our futures depend on us waking up to this truth.

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Your right to be alive shouldn’t be conditional on your contribution to society. No one should ever have to prove they are “deserving” of their humanity. Whether unhoused, unemployed, or unable to work — capitalism shouldn’t get to decide whether your labour makes you human.

What stage of capitalism is it when a company that got a government bailout and that is paying shareholder dividends is also stranding its customers during the holidays while federal regulators do nothing?

Maybe we should find a better system than Capitalism?

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Another year, another brilliant kick off to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Global Report Launch 22/23 HEG-FR / HSW-FR .#GEMGlobalReport2023 @AstonGrowth Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) Anastasia Ri Sreevas Sahasranamam Karen Bonner Samuel Mwaura

TheGenderIndex 2023 report launched today: Wales and Scotland show the highest percentages of fast growth female-led companies across the UK Samuel Mwaura stephen roper Enterprise Research Centre (ERC)

A great turn out for the #RSA23 walking tour around Ljubljana this morning - the first of many interesting tours organised over the next few days.

Look at this research by Marte C W Solheim showing just what a tough entrepreneurial journey #female #entrepreneurs progressively have - starting from a position of near #equality but ending with an appalling female/ male ratio of 1/24 in #VC and #preseed #funding! #RSA23

Female to male ratio of early-stage entrepreneurial activity in Scotland sits at 68%, lower than the UK average of 79%. Minority entrepreneurship rate is at 17% double that of White Scots (8.5%). Full report here: strathprints.strath.ac.uk/85961/. Enterprise Research Centre (ERC) Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

Scots lack confidence in launching own business as start-up rate lags on UK average, despite strong showing by minorities - Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report from Samuel Mwaura Sreevas Sahasranamam bit.ly/3JDemmr

Tomorrow, the Gender and Sexualities Interdisciplinary Network invites you to a panel event tackling issues of gender inequality in UK entrepreneurialism. With Speakers Mark Logan, Karen Rodger, Samuel Mwaura and Karen Stevens Register here: tinyurl.com/3ds79dj6

A huge achievement for the UK GEM team! A diamond award for 25 years of yearly uninterrupted Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys 🍾🎉! Here's to many more years! Enterprise Research Centre (ERC)

Hala, one of our MSc International HRM students, attended Samuel Mwaura’s ‘Planning for a Start-Up’ course and said the highlight was a guest talk by Janani Prabhakaran, founder of Unbaggaged.com, the first on-demand luggage management network. Read more: edin.ac/3ZIAqoM

The third research paper in our series using the Longitudinal Small Business Survey (LSBS) secondary analysis data published today. Read the full paper here enterpriseresearch.ac.uk/publications/t… Stir Man School Stirling Research Samuel Mwaura University of Edinburgh Business School