do YOU have capitalism poisoning? 🤢
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do YOU have capitalism poisoning? 🤢
Same day shipping. Buy it without seeing it in person first. Free returns. The speed of commerce quickening at the same pace the cost and quality of the goods are decreasing. And the amount of things we keep buying shows no sign of abating. Amazon is on its way to selling half a trillion dollars worth of goods in America this year. And with new bar
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Some content that I wanted to save that got pulled from final version of the essay
- ...an endless, 24/7, transcendentally corporate, transcendental survey, instantly collecting and collating human habits to move towards what? Very possibly not late capitalism but something like pre-quantum capitalism — pre-infallibly predictive capitalism?
...and the situation couldn’t even be properly categorized as like a “conspiracy” or some sor... See moreYanis Markin added
from cargo.site newsletter “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote the literary critic Fredric Jameson. One of the hardest elements to imagine is what capitalism has done to our perception of time via clocks. It now seems embedded into our very psychology to view time as a commodity that can be spent or wasted.
from The Tyranny of Time | NOEMA by noemamag.com
- The recent historically long market expansion began with the recovery from the 2008 global financial crisis – and its inevitable end seems to have arrived via virus. Your impression of these high times might vary. You might remember the period for austerity, the Arab Spring, Trump, Brexit, Yellow Vests, the rise of the far right, rising costs of ho... See more
from Nemesis | the Umami Theory of Value by Nemesis
- What we’re collectively facing is unbearable economic and social strain — the cracks are splintering and the time-bomb is ticking. In the darkest sense, ruin awaits: our population is aging, living longer, unable to afford healthcare, isn't saving, and required to work to survive in an environment where 1. they don’t have the digital prowess, and 2... See more
from The Retirement Crisis, Digital Literacy & The Case For Upskilling by ZINE
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