Capitalism
The Antitrust Division will hopefully respond with “No, your search engine was awesome, but it’s increasingly ad-filled crap. You’re too powerful, you’re too lazy, and America needs some real competition.”
Matt Stoller • The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start
“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.
Joe Zadeh • The Tyranny Of Time
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber • 8 highlights
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Katherine Boyle on American Dynamism
Hard Work is Only Sometimes Necessary and Never Sufficient, But What Else Can You Do?
Freddie deBoerfreddiedeboer.substack.com