Category: Corporate exploitation, consumerism

Should We Trust Google Apps?

Posted by on in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Misc., Privacy, data collection, Popdata BC

January 2019 - GOOGLE APPS FOR KIDS are accused of: Illegal data collection.Manipulating children into in-app purchases.Ads for gambling and alcohol.Modeling harmful behavior like cleaning your eyes with sharp objects Sign the Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood petitionTell Google: Adopt…

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SUBSIDIZED DAYCARE = SUBSIDIZED PROFITS = CORPORATE WELFARE (broken link)

Posted by on in Child poverty, income, family finances & taxation, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Misc., Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

SUBSIDIZED DAYCARE = SUBSIDIZED PROFITS = CORPORATE WELFARE: Quebec daycare economists promote the Quebec daycare system because it increases labour supply and thus lowers wages which increases business profits. They also endorse neo-liberal/neo-conservative "trickle down theory" asserting that "eventually" this…

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From the Gordon Neufeld Institute:

Posted by on in Attachment, Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Effects on child outcomes: health, cognitive, behavioural, Mental/Emotional Health, Misc., Physical activity, sleep, sedentary behaviour & screen time

Neufeld on the Vancouver riots:2011. Gordon Neufeld. Neufeld Institute - article (web): "Uncovering the Roots of Delinquency" Business Profit Agenda Undermining Child-Rearing:2011. Deborah MacNamara. Neufeld Institute - article (web): "Making Sense of the Senseless" Children, Teens and Technology (broken link)

Trauma: How We’ve Created a Nation Addicted to Shopping, Work, Drugs and Sex (broken link)

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Trauma: How We’ve Created a Nation Addicted to Shopping, Work, Drugs and Sex (broken link). “Post-industrial capitalism has completely destroyed the conditions required for healthy childhood development.” Dec 2010 Democracy Now (US) interview of Dr Gabor Mate by Amy Goodman

Dr. Strangelove and Daycare: The RAND Corporation, the biggest “think tank” in the world, is funded by the US military and large corporations

Posted by on in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Daycare lobby left & right, neo-liberalism, defamilialization, International organizations (OECD, World Bank, UNICEF, etc.. )

Dr. Strangelove and Daycare: The RAND Corporation, the biggest “think tank” in the world, is funded by the US military and large corporations (broken link). It pushed “universal preschool” (broken link) in California. A new book, Soldiers of Reason: the…

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“Our Phony Economy.” A Harper’s Magazine article

Posted by on in Corporate exploitation, consumerism, Mothers, women's equality, gender equity, feminisms, misogyny, Work, unwaged work, labour force statistics, GDP

June 2008. Jonathan Rowe. Harper’s Magazine - (magazine article): “Our Phony Economy"Simon Kuznets invented the GDP but opposed using it as if it measured all production: “The volume of services rendered by housewives and other members of the household toward…

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Neo-conservative alliance with second-wave feminist daycare lobby admitted

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Neo-conservative alliance with second-wave feminist daycare lobby admitted. By Rianne Mahon, Carleton University sociologist and top Canadian daycare apologist: Rianne Mahon. Carleton University - research paper (PDF): “Transnationalising (Child) Care Policy: the OECD and the World Bank” Find it also…

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Background to All-Day Kindergarten: The “Integration” Agenda to Merge Daycare and School

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Analysis by Kids First of the “Blueprint Paper” for Child & Family Policy by the OECD, UNESCO and World Bank. Quotes from, links to, and Kids First commentary on the key ideological strategy document behind daycare and all-day kindergarten: STATED…

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