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Digital Infrastructure: Our entire system of mass communication is privatized and optimized for profit. Elon was able to buy Twitter! The billionaires own the papers! Meta owns Instagram and Facebook! The way we communicate is an addiction because it has to be - communication is a commodity. That’s how money is made. We are a nation of addicts, thi... See more

The TikTok Ban Shows America Is At War With Itself

the papers of the Southern Conference Education Fund, is my mother talking in 1974 about the indigenous prison struggle, meaning Black Southerners recognizing that locking people up was a tool of social control.

Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Going dark is one strategy of the savvy and privileged. VPN hopping cosmopolitans with the increased risk of exposure online from both the state and their peers began fleeing to the Dark Forest of the internet; off mainline socials where their speech and behavior was broadcast to anyone and into small niche communities on invite-only forums, p2p ne... See more

Nick Houde • Good Is Out, Evil Is in ♞

universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country. Evictions would plummet and become rare occurrences. Homelessness would almost disappear. Families would immediately feel the income gains and be able to buy enough food, invest in themselves and their children through schooling or job training, and start modest savings. Th

Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S.

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They start with the underprivileged being typically cut off from what Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto calls the “mystery of capital,” the idea that economic growth and the creation of wealth depend on clearly defined and documented property rights.

Paul Vigna , Michael J. Casey • The Age of Cryptocurrency

The threat to overall employment is that as creative destruction unfolds, the “destruction” will fall primarily on labor-intensive businesses in traditional areas like retail and food preparation, while the “creation” will generate new businesses and industries that simply don’t hire many people.

Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Virginia has been a major proponent of a housing-first approach, including rapid rehousing and permanent supportive housing. From 2010 to mid-2016, the state experienced a 31 percent drop in overall homelessness, including a 37.6 percent decrease in family homelessness. In 2015, it became the first state to end veteran homelessness.22 The state of