anti-capitalism
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anti-capitalism
We have all internalized systemic oppression ….including capitalism. It shows up in our shame when we rest, in the ways we measure our worth by output, and even in how we show up (or don’t) in relationships.
This workshop is about slowing down to ask:
✨ How has capitalism impacted you? How has racism impacted you? How... See more
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Musk’s $1 trillion pay package is a truly bleak milestone.
Awarding so much to one individual reflects a model of capitalism that feels increasingly dystopian - massively rewarding a tiny few while many people’s living standards continue to decline.
The rise of left-economic populism on... See more
instagram.comEvery system young men touch today extracts value while promising creation. College extracts tuition while promising knowledge. Jobs extract time while promising careers. Apps extract attention while promising connection. Finance extracts hope while promising wealth.
The shift from Old Games to New Games is fundamentally about reversing this flow.
... See moreAnderson • "Zihilism", and Why Young Men Are Choosing the Roulette Wheel
A world built via hypercapitalism is a world that creates increasing inequality, and increasing inequality is bad for everything, including our brains. The phones, the schooling, the discourse—all of it is part of the same rot at the root of our society.
P.E. Moskowitz • The Internet Is Pink Slime
consolidated corporate control of any system leads to worse outcomes, and this is no less true for our information and education ecosystems than it is for our food system or housing system or transportation system.
P.E. Moskowitz • The Internet Is Pink Slime
Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
... See moreNeoliberals’ political analysis was even worse than their economics, with perhaps even graver consequences. Friedman and his acolytes failed to understand an essential feature of freedom: that there are two kinds, positive and negative; freedom to do and freedom from harm. “Free markets” alone fail to provide economic stability or security against
workfutures • Doing Too Little
Because managerialism has spread so thoroughly into society, its effect has been to anesthetize everyday life to the point that many people cannot envision an alternative way to organize themselves.
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #82
‘We made a mistake and by that I mean my generation and my parents generation. The mistake we made was thinking that the period from 1946 to 1980 was the norm. No it was not! It was the anomaly! We had just wiped out the manufacturing capabilities of anyone who could challenge us. So the idea that you had that job with the gold watch and you could
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