corporate dystopia

But can we hope for the right thing to happen when the capitalist addiction to relentless growth and prioritisation of profit over anything else remains the dominant force in our world?

“Young people are just smarter,” Zuckerberg once said, in possibly the dumbest statement in American history. “There are no second acts in American lives,” F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed, in what might be the next dumbest.

The cute but archaic financial ideal of getting a degree, then a good job (that sets you up for life with a company that takes care of you), buying a home, and having a family — doesn’t work like it used to.

Because we’re social animals we tend to go along with the trend, and because we live under capitalist acceleration the trend is always one way, because our system only has one gear.

I played the game pretty well for a long time, and now it’s obvious to me that the reward for playing the game is more game . You just keep unlocking levels forever, and the levels don’t even get more interesting (“Ooh, this one is in space!”). It’s just the same thing over and over until you die. You don’t get out by winning ; you get out by stopp... See more

L.A. only exists in its current form because of cars, which means life will be difficult there if you don’t have one. In this scenario you’re essentially held hostage by the auto industry, whose products are the very thing that have catalysed our dependence on giant megacities. Rather than acknowledge that, we lapse into a type of Stockholm Syndrom... See more