Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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Death to “Time to Lean, Time to Clean”

Ashley Rodriguez bossbarista.substack.com

Labor Under Capitalism

Even when we allow for all the investors who need to be paid back, and all the expenses that need be deducted, there is always going to be some amount of money reasonably available in the “WORKER COMPENSATION” column. Why is it such a chore to agree on what that amount is?

The most intractable problem is that the management of your company does not... See more

Hamilton Nolan • Executive Pay Is the Skeleton Key

Labor Under Capitalism

No Redemption Arcs in Hell

Brandon blgtylr.substack.com

the art of writing

"Redemption comes from a character who has incurred a moral debt through their actions then making good on that moral debt by performing some deed or service or act of heroism that will ameliorate the bad. That seems simple enough. But in the arid secular plains of modernity and its accompanying moral relativism, what is even good? What is even bad? How can there be redemption in the absence of a functioning moral schema?"

EMBEDDED: How do you keep up with the online discourse? How important is it to you to do this?

SAM COLE: Honestly the best way I know how to do this is talking to my friends. Everyone is experiencing a different internet these days. Algorithms have got us sorted and siloed away from each other, so one person is seeing memes and “discourse” and... See more

Nick Catucci • My Internet: Sam Cole

Corita.org

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Design Inspo

Though histories of capitalism tend to distinguish between three stages (market, monopoly, late), its story can be retold as one of an ongoing dematerialization of value that begins when an “ordinary, sensuous thing”—a table, say—is transformed into a commodity.[31] Value performs an acrobatic feat, leaping from the ligneous form of the... See more

Introduction to Hoardiculture | Stanford Humanities Center

Broken Links

Just a moment...

Bonnie Burstow journals.sagepub.com

Emotions @ Work

"Toward a Radical Understanding of Trauma and Trauma Work" by Bonnie Burstow:: https://www.academia.edu/download/35938648/burstow2003_radicaltraumawork.pdf

What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called “the... See more

David Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber

Practical Utopia and Labor Under Capitalism

"Psychological stress, therefore, is a relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as taxing or exceeding his or her resources and endangering his or her well-being." — Richard Lazarus, Susan Folkman (Stress, Appraisal, and Coping, 1984)

Emotions @ Work