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Who Wants to Work?

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On July 21, 2022
Someone mentioned this thread in comments yesterday and it’s worth a full post. It’s a compendium of newspaper reports of capitalists claiming workers just don’t want to work that goes back well over a century. Today, we see this again–and in fact, not just among employers but among a lot of white male workers deeply […]
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Louis Hyman is an excellent historian of capitalism, who wrote this book on temporary work, among other books. His op-ed today reminds us that while we focus on the New Deal’s direct employment and labor law programs, (largely because they can serve a more socialist function in our public memory) that there’s a ton of […]

Self-Made

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On April 9, 2020

This is a very long but pretty complete history of the “self-made man,” one of the most pernicious myths in American history. The true bard of this was the child raping minister and author

“Lost”

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On August 24, 2019

Watching Uber and Lyft fall on their faces is hilarious. Everything about the fact that these companies are hemorrhaging money after all the hype says what you need to know both about contemporary cap

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Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing’s 2015 book, The Mushroom at the End of the World, is simply one of the best academic works I have read in years. Tsing examines the matsutake mushroom–a prized food to give as gifts in Japanese culture–as an entrypoint into a ruined, extremely late capitalist world where older ideas of progress cannot […]
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An interesting argument, but I think it screams of choosing the evidence to make the conclusion it wants to make: While Naím argues that what is happening is an end to power, what he aptly describes is more like a destabilization of old structures and a shifting of power. In terms of culture, Naím sees […]
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