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Kim Siever

@kim_siever

Radical left. Queer. Mormon. Labour journalist for @ABWorker. Editor for @hotpepper. Baker for @rh_cookies. Disabled. ADHD. Autism.

 Lethbridge, Alberta
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Joined September 2007
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I had 5 people send me screenshots of AI generated content today. People cannot even do their own research anymore. I am blocking anyone who replies to my tweets with AI content.
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Wow. I am in awe of the support y’all have shown me in just a few hours. E-transfers, donations, annual subscriptions, and monthly subscriptions from over 25 people so far have passed $1,000. This will make a difference over the next week or two.
Kim Siever (@kim_siever) profile pictureKim Siever@kim_siever29 Aug 2025
Hey, fellow workers. Some of you may already know this, but my spouse is a PhD student. She does that while also working. What you may not know is that her work for the last 4 years has been short-term contract after short-term contract, sometimes multiple contracts at once.
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In the past 24 hours, so many readers of The Alberta Worker have given of their generosity through e-transfers, donations, annual subscriptions, and monthly subscriptions. So far, you folks have put forward over $2,500 to help sustain independent labour journalism in Alberta.
Kim Siever (@kim_siever) profile pictureKim Siever@kim_siever29 Aug 2025
Hey, fellow workers. Some of you may already know this, but my spouse is a PhD student. She does that while also working. What you may not know is that her work for the last 4 years has been short-term contract after short-term contract, sometimes multiple contracts at once.
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When you’re a leftist, but also Mormon.
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John Rad@JohnRad1511m
I agree with your intent but a little bit of a category error. We should not live in capitalism, which is what enables some people to *be* capitalists. We need to change the structure of the system so it's not capitalism, and then people won't be *able* to exploit workers anyway.
Kim Siever (@kim_siever) profile pictureKim Siever@kim_siever17h
Yes, it should be illegal to be a capitalist. It should be against the law for a tiny minority to exploit the vast majority just to enrich themselves.
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Shasta@derShasta1h
Replying to @varneybe @ColonelJCuster @kim_siever
Defining inflation as the increase in the money supply is irrelevant if that has no effect on prices. Nobody gives a shit about a theoretical inflation when the same amount of money buys the same amount of goods. It’s a meaningless concept.
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Replying to @NamesTheThird @Dr_Marxist_27 @kim_siever
Everything the company owns it's built by workers. Including the capital to be able to buy that equipment.
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Replying to @onefedupbisch @kim_siever
Ancient societies were communalistic. People who were greedy and didn't do their fair share were thrown off cliffs.
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Replying to @varneybe @ColonelJCuster @kim_siever
The original definition is not appropriate for a fiat currency whose value is strictly determined by what you can buy with it, and that is solely determined by prices. If you tell a person “you know technically there was no inflation, that increase in prices was due…
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Replying to @NamesTheThird @kim_siever
Word? The worker has no source of income or assets to rely on. How do you figure they're in a better position than the owner with their failure of a business?
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Xavier Torch@XavierTorch44m
Replying to @Valdfur @kim_siever
He is a quintessential liberal. What's more Liberal Party of Canada than: "Campaign as an NDP; Govern as a Conservative."?
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Replying to @varneybe @ColonelJCuster @kim_siever
No When the value of the dollar was tied to gold reserves, the government could print dollars and decrease the value of the dollar. Today, printing more dollars has ZERO EFFECT until prices increase. The dollar ONLY devalues as a result of prices increasing.
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Replying to @derShasta @varneybe @ColonelJCuster @kim_siever
I can give you 100 definitions for inflation that are completely irrational to believe in whose only measurable effect is an increase in prices, and say “well prices increased so it’s proof my definition is true, you just don’t understand economics”
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Replying to @NamesTheThird @Circa1971V @gallarway @kim_siever
If you start a business with you as the sole employee you are still creating value and wealth from your own labour. You are still a worker. You do not become a ‘capitalist’ or member of the ownership class until your wealth is made from your assets or the labour of other workers.
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John Foxx ☭@oldgreyfoxx1h
Replying to @AylorRon @kim_siever
Demand creates the jobs.
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The latest news story I wrote for @ABWorker
The Alberta Worker (@ABWorker) profile pictureThe Alberta Worker@ABWorker3h
Today’s news story from @kim_siever Alberta workers unionized 7 workplaces in Oct 2026 albertaworker.ca/news/albert…
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Replying to @NamesTheThird @Dr_Marxist_27 @kim_siever
Yes raw materials appear in nature and nothing happens until a worker does something about it. You can throw all the money you want at a tree but it is never going to cut itself down, transport itself, process itself and turn into a chair.
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Replying to @NamesTheThird @kim_siever
You literally need the state to protect your private property relations Yes you have your personal freedoms but you do not have your personal private property without the state. That is the fundamental principle of liberalism
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Replying to @NamesTheThird @kim_siever
You do realize the reason he was in that office building in the photo was because of his parents retirement fund and the dozens of folks he hired to thousands by 1999? Anybody with money and knowledge of the internet could print money in the 90’s since the chains weren’t sold yet
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Profit is unpaid wages.
Michael (@Michael89lr) profile pictureMichael@Michael89lr2h
Dumb workers just coughed up the profits.
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Replying to @Slydog101010 @kim_siever
Around three workers in Canada are going to die today at work. Almost a thousand are going to be injured ill or disabled at work today. That's risk. In an economic downturn the workers are the first to lose their livelihoods, that's risk as well.
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