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jotdown.es“Tragedy of the Commons” always opens with people benefiting individually by sharing a common resource—a brand-new freeway, for example. But at some point, the amount of activity grows too large for the “commons” to support.
Art Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
How Capitalism Gaslit a Generation of Creatives
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The Drey Dossier
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Why didn’t I see that it would be easy to fund essay writing in this way? It was, as I’ve said, partly a lack of imagination, partly a fear of looking stupid. But it was also that my thinking was bundled. I had conflated “being a writer” with “having a publisher” and “getting a salary from my writing.” These are not the same thing.
And AI’s semivisible, infrastructural role in exploiting precarious labor (Uber’s nifty algorithm for suppressing driver wages), landlordism (RealPage’s widely used rent-hiking software), and neocolonial war (Israel’s high-tech civilian-bombing gadgetry) may already be too entrenched to stop. But professional readers and writers: We retain some... See more