Capitalism
A brand is a cage you decorate yourself. Once you build it, you spend the rest of your career making sure the world doesn’t notice the bars.
Jared Thomas Tapy • The Problem with Instagram Photography Culture
Everything is transactional except the body shrinking from being laughed at.
The Paris Review • Death, Love, Taxes, and Beauty, Among Other Issues
The salary is compensation for wasting your existence.
The Epidemic of Wasted Talent
“In the never-ending haze of afters and orgies, are we careering through a tech-driven, pharma-forward sexual dystopia with no happy ending in sight?”
“Capitalism thrives on this rhythm: the glorification of speed, the commodification of energy. It tells us that if we’re not always producing, we’re wasting.“
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