Carrie York
@aadystopianmoon
Carrie York
When you’re genuinely curious about the world, when you let that curiosity guide your reading, your thinking, and your creating, you become a magnet for ideas, conversations, and opportunities. When you’re interested, you’re never boring. And when you’re interesting, the world can’t help but pay attention.
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
Capitalism — an economic system respecting and encouraging the nurturing, replenishment, and growth of capital
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Capitalism irrationally imposes on us a deep sense that we need more than what is necessary to live on because we need more than what will allow us to live well today. Living well today, capitalism says, is having more than you need for today. Capitalism demands that we work hard to create something extra (which we call “capital”).
Andrew Root • The Church After Innovation
In a capitalist society like the United States, every aspect of our survival—from food and water to healthcare, childcare, and elder care—is based on our success at being an individual in the world: Do we compete well enough to make good money so we can live a good life?
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“Desire that arises in agitation is an expression of the ego; desire that arises in stillness is an expression of the soul.”
Haley Nahman • #197: What is "personal style"?
the attention economy erodes trust. It rewards the most dramatic claims, the most outrageous behavior, the most compelling narratives regardless of their relationship to truth or long-term consequences.
kyla scanlon • From Dollar Dominance to the Slop Machine
Capitalism is an insecurity machine, though we rarely think of it as such. Alongside profits, commodities, and inequality, insecurity is a fundamental output of the system. Neither an incidental byproduct nor a secondary consequence of the concentration of wealth, it is one of capitalism’s essential and enabling creations. “The bourgeoisie cannot... See more