Anna Schmunk
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Anna Schmunk
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Capitalism’s contradictions: monopoly from competition, geographic inequality, state intervention, and profit-driven worker alienation and “bullshit jobs.”
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The fifth contradiction of capitalism. You see this similar dynamic play out geographically as monopoly power and competition create uneven development.
So we've already discussed how this happened internationally, how these peripheral societies get stuck in this cycle of dependency where they can't get out from under the basically
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A common criticism of hope is that it’s passive; that people just wait around for things to magically change. It’s a valid critique. And it’s exactly why I love this approach.
This isn’t about sitting back and hoping things will feel better. It’s about doing something . It’s about choosing to participate. Making a connection. Allowing yourself to be
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Systems that do not respond to what is happening in the world right now are not systems that need to be overthrown – they are already dying from their own irrelevance.
War, fascism, climate breakdown, ecological collapse, obscene inequality tearing societies apart – and the systems let it... See more
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The WHAT Anchor sits pinned at the top of my app. It contains only three headers: What I am becoming (a high-level personal evolution goal), What I am building (the current project), and What I am learning (the single topic of current curiosity).