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I’ve been rereading the late anthropologist David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs, which persuasively makes the case that the corporate world is happy to nurture inefficient or wasteful jobs if they somehow serve the managerial class or flatter elites—while encouraging the public to harbor animosity at those who do rewarding work or work that clearly benef... See more

Brian Merchant • The AI jobs crisis is here, now

challenge her self-image as someone exempt from racism.

Robin DiAngelo • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

Like twentieth-century Russian workers or nineteenth-century Polynesians, the American working class—or at least the white part of it—which could once hope for steady work at decent pay, has lost much of its way of life.

Barbara Ehrenreich • Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer

The extent to which people will defy nature to serve culture can be truly horrifying.

Martha Beck • The Way of Integrity: Finding the path to your true self

Boomers without college educations fell victim to the new economy.

Jean M. Twenge • Generations

Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole,

Elizabeth Royte • Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle over America's Drinking Water

For centuries, or at least since the Protestant Reformation, Western economic elites have flattered themselves with the idea that poverty is a voluntary condition. The Calvinist saw it as a result of sloth and other bad habits; the positive thinker blamed it on a willful failure to embrace abundance.