Capitalism Actually Sucks?
Buyer beware puts the onus on the individual who’s getting fooled. But we also have the ability to separate ourselves from those that would seek to profit by fooling us. You can’t work against us and also earn our respect.
Seth Godin • Fooled
re: capitalism, racism, etc. Marginalized folks have been singing and rejecting this tune for ages.
The promises of liberal democracy are failing us right before our eyes and we just close them.
lots of different threads so just going to say this here: mvmts need weapons, hours, resources to succeed. oppressive systems tend to deny these to the bottom and hoard them at the top. this is the strategic basis for coalition, which you cannot moralize yourself out of.
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threads.comColonial capitalism always results in burnout, disability and the asymmetrical outsourcing of both.
Joel Uili • Joel Uili (@archeronline)
Private equity is bad for society
Substack is a place of commerce that we are pretending is for socializing and artistry. I refrain from ascribing a value judgement to that in particular. I enjoy coffee shops and bookstores as sites of potential connection, I find commerce to be morally neutral. I have two hang-ups: (1) Lying to ourselves about the intention of the infrastructure
... See moreIsmatu Gwendolyn • Substack Has a N*gger Problem.
Again regarding the fact that companies are incentivized to ‘trick’ us into false senses of being/doing; while quite literally enabling a reality that is the opposite of any good they are intentionally building us to believe we are/do.