Capitalism
Hard Work is Only Sometimes Necessary and Never Sufficient, But What Else Can You Do?
Freddie deBoerfreddiedeboer.substack.com
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
The unabated “creative destruction” of one kind of capital after another has only further increased the wealth of a few and done nothing to emancipate the overall collective creative spirit, which has remained stagnant. Today, almost every artistic effort inevitably (perhaps unknowingly) reinscribes the values of the ruling capitalist class.
GD Dess • Cultural Dopes
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
David Graeber • 8 highlights
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