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Without the looming threat of a rival superpower, the last thirty years of global neoliberalism have witnessed a rapid shriveling of social programs that protect citizens from cyclical instability and financial crises and reduce the vast inequality of economic outcomes between those at the top and bottom of the income distribution.
Kristen R. Ghodsee • Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
Sam Altman · March 16 • Moore's Law for Everything
Americans, and many others around the world, did not seem fully aware of how much better things could be.
Anu Partanen • The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life
Digital divide and inequality:
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy

The new ideology of meritocracy competed with two alternative notions of social organization: the egalitarian principle, with its call for complete equality in the distribution of goods between humans; and the hereditary principle, with its belief that titles and posts (and partridge shoots) should be automatically transferred to the children of
... See moreAlain de Botton • Status Anxiety (NON-FICTION)
If right now you think I’m a horrible, marauding, free-market monster, you’re only half-right—I’m also a humanist who thinks there are better things for our children to do with their time. The quicker we eliminate the low-paying, repetitive, and menial jobs, the quicker our species can get to work on bigger issues like sustainability, being
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