dane cads

Most of us intuitively understand hierarchies as relationships of power and superiority/inferiority (etymologically, “-archy” has to do with rule/authority): these are domination hierarchies. Higher is better, lower is worse: a zero-sum mindset is assumed, and value-judgments follow. This is how our culture is structured, because domination... See more

If we are able to see capitalism with one eye and socialism with the other, then when we open both eyes we will see a truer picture of reality: that every economy in the world is a mixture of the two intellectual traditions. When we drive our car on the highway, the market gave us the car and the state gave us the road. We can live in two realities... See more

I don’t believe there is a future for humans with capitalism still around. It may look to others like there is no way that capitalism can ever go, and that a system based on global gifting and integrative decision making is simply impossible and naïve. My claim is exactly the opposite: that anything that retains the ways in which capitalism... See more

Risk or no risk, this informal way of saving is a staple among America’s black immigrant communities and is widely considered a viable means to an end.