Politics

She told me that twenty years from now, she thinks work will look like waking up in the morning, opening a device, and deciding the character and length of work that you’d like to do: a quick, day’s long project, a year-long commitment, whatever works for you, the worker, in that moment. Everyone a freelancer, everyone in control of the work

Maybe all the talking about the bad influence of smartphones and social media having a bad influence on young people is heavily exaggerated - and just an excuse to not bother much about making their living and learning conditions better, and caring more about the future world they gonna have to live in

And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing. —Meditations 9.5

Wenn man sich die Welt so ansieht, dann fällt auf, dass seit mindestens fünf Jahren jede größere Politik-Entscheidung von Straßenprotesten begleitet wird. Ich glaube, das ist ein Symptom für die Delegitimation unserer Politik. Für das Gefühl, dass irgendetwas in der Welt aus den Spuren geraten ist.

Do not waste the remainder of your life in thoughts about others, when you are not thinking with reference to some aspect of the common good. —Meditations 3.4

Often people choose not to choose, and we should respect their choice.