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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Already a fourth of the adults actually employed in the US are paid wages lower than would lift them above the official poverty line – and so a fifth of American children live in poverty. Almost half of employed adults in this country are eligible for food stamps (most of those who are eligible don’t apply). The market in labour has broken down,... See more

James Livingston • What if jobs are not the solution but the problem? – James Livingston | Aeon Essays

Economics and Labor Under Capitalism

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself. One could put this another way: the publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

I think the defining economic reality of the modern platform media world is that all the platforms realized that an infinite supply of teenage creators are cheaper to deal with than media companies or groups of media individuals or powerful creators. And I’m curious for your read on the number of YouTubers that you see retiring or taking a step... See more

Nilay Patel • NilayPatel tells Decoder guest host Hank Green why blogs are still great

The Creator Economy and

The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy

David Weinberger hbr.org

Making Sense

How past trauma impacts emotional intelligence: Examining the connection

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Emotions @ Work

The aspect ratio of our lives has changed. By narrowing our field of view, cutting off our peripheral vision, the phone doesn’t just remove us from space and provoke a sense of claustrophobia. It isolates us.

Nicholas Carr • Out of the Landscape, into the Portrait

Media & Culture and The Creator Economy

“Toward a phenomenology of the phone”

Three strategies to prevent young adult mental health troubles

Ashley Mowreader insidehighered.com

Higher Ed Under Capitalism

View of Errand Runners of Digital Platform Capitalism: The Errand Economy as a Contribution to the Discussion on the Gig Economy | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal...

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Labor Under Capitalism and The Creator Economy

“The gig economy, regardless of workers’ competence, undermines workers’ rights, and makes every job cheap and precarious. Thus, an errand economy can be defined as the process of transforming all workers, regardless of skill level, into people who do the footwork, gruntwork, legwork, and odd jobs under a newly formed working regime.”

The problem when the asset is people is that people are intensely complicated, and trying to regulate how people behave is historically a miserable experience, especially when that authority is vested in a single powerful individual.

theverge.com • Welcome to Hell, Elon - The Verge

content as capital