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The Old is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond
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Modern inequality is at record highs and, in some cases, even eclipses the extreme inequality of the ancient past. The Roman Empire, notorious for its unabashed plutocracy, doesn’t hold a candle to modern imbalances. In 2012, the economist Branko Milanovic estimated that the businessman Carlos Slim, a Mexican billionaire, had an annual income that
... See morePaul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
We are living now inside the imagination of people who thought economic disparity and environmental destruction were acceptable costs for their power.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
We will be known as a culture that feared death
and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity
for the few and cared little for the penury of the
many. We will be known as a culture that taught
and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke
little if at all about the quality of life for
people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All
the world, in
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
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fleet/re: Metaverse; or How can you colonize the intangible?
Companies have been successfully working on this for two decades but when the prospect of "owning" land in the Metaverse surfaced— and was subsequently swallowed up by the few, it became immediately obvious what the playbook was:
You'll own nothing out here, and nothing in there.
It was a
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