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and healthy. We mean they make a lot of money.
Simone Stolzoff • The Good Enough Job: What We Gain When We Don’t Put Work First
Commodified Hawaiian culture—the “luau,” the “hula girl,” and “aloha”—became part of the American vernacular and everyday life.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
act of best-interest buying.
Sonya Renee Taylor • The Body Is Not an Apology
“Easiest job in America,” we were told.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste. The barriers to entry are low, competition is fierce, and so much of the focus has shifted — from tech to distribution, and now, to something else too: taste.
Anu Atluru • Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
We are not an overly sentimental people, I hope, but we have an uncanny knowledge of just how much to save, of how many wrinkled documents a Manhattan closet will one day hold.
Gary Shteyngart • Little Failure: A Memoir
We live like beggars.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
