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I try not to go down that road but I’m afraid I te...

I try not to go down that road but I’m afraid I tend to agree a lot with this article (apart from the last 2 paragraphs, I think it’ll be nasty, but I don’t wish for it).

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Posted on 13th November 2006 Details

Going green but getting nowhere.

Going green but getting nowhere.

Linked on 9th September 2011 Details

On the Complicated Economics of Attention Capital

Are distracting technologies partially to blame for our economy’s sluggish productivity numbers?

Linked on 1st December 2017 Details

Pay to reach your followers

This is where we are now. Getting charged to reach your own followers on social media. The honey pot is working.

Linked on 11th January 2018 Details

Service for some, slavery for others

"The current service economy makes the middle class the working class and the working class the working poor. […] So, the next time you use an app that makes your life simpler and more convenient, spare a moment to wonder whether it’s making someone else’s life much more miserable."

Linked on 28th April 2019 Details

The sharing economy was always a scam.

I always thought it should be called the renting economy but it's closer to an exploitation economy now.

Linked on 26th June 2019 Details

Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals.

While we busy ourselves greening our personal lives, fossil fuel corporations are rendering these efforts irrelevant.

They've pulled off the best trick ever: making it all about personal responsibility while they happily destroy the planet in the background. We need to attack the issue from all sides: personal change but, more importantly, system change.

Linked on 25th September 2019 Details

Your lifestyle has already been designed.

We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.

A flourishing economy mostly depends on an unsatisfied population and a declining environment.

Linked on 19th January 2020 Details

The one percent are coming for everyone.

The accumulation of wealth by a small percentage of people at the top of the pyramid gradually engulfs everything.

The money produced by art has not disappeared. The issue is not that the people of the world value television less than they did in the 1990s. The reality is that the people with the most money have devised, at every turn, new and more bulletproof ways for them to make and keep more money, and for the people who make things to make less. This is the eternal story of labor and management; it just has hot people in it, in this case.

Linked on 8th March 2024 Details