capitalism
Capitalism is the economic system we are all forced to live under. This tag is mostly about collecting different ways the profit motive (and probably sometimes also other aspects of capitalism) are wrecking our world.
Did you know? I also have a wiki page called ‘capitalism’! If you want to check that out, you can do so here.
Posts
- : 🇺🇸 On Homelessness, Crime and Drugs: So I read this article, How San Francisco Became a Failed City (external link). I was going to save it as a link …
- : 👗 Thoughts on Clothing Longevity: A few days ago I saw this astounding Mastodon post (external link) which says that the average item of clothing …
- : 🏘 Micro post: It is truly awful that a town can have a homelessness crisis while 30% of properties there lie vacant (external …
- : 📰 On Women's Work Under Capitalism: The thing that’s prompted me to write this post is the interesting Jacobin article, Second-Wave Feminism’s …
- : 📰 A (Largely Political) Linkpost: In the near future, I’d like to have templates in place on my blog, so I can post proper bookmarks (and replies …
- : 💬 Three Quick Links: I found these through Mastodon and Twitter, and while each could have sustained a linkpost on its own, the fact that I …
- : 🤖 Micro post: Great article on the cyberpunk genre, which emerged as a critique of technological development under neoliberal …
- : 🖥 Algorithmic Discrimination: I came across an excellent (if disturbing) article today on the hidden algorithms that trap people in …
Links
- : 🖥 Link: “The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok”
- : 📰 Link: “Intellectual property is theft” by Dominique Cyprès
- : 📰 Link: “Degrowth can work—here’s how science can help”
- : 🇺🇸 Link: “Thanksgiving thoughts” by Chris Arnade
- : 📚 Link: “Freedom and Creative Vitality in a Market Society: Ursula K. Le Guin on Saving Books from Profiteering and Commodification”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “The company that bulldozed this sacred Aboriginal site had a year to apologise. It didn't”
- : 💵 Link: “The End of the Road to Serfdom” by Cory Doctorow
- : 🖥 Link: “AI Data Laundering: How Academic and Nonprofit Researchers Shield Tech Companies from Accountability”
- : 🔍 Link: “A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you”
- : 🏭 Link: “The Case for Degrowth”
- : 📰 Link: “I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health”
- : 🛩 Link: “Private Jet Use Shows Why We Must Abolish Billionaires”
- : 👩🏻🏫 Link: “I would prefer not to”
- : 💵 Link: “Global hunger fight means no biofuel”
- : 🏭 Link: “Science Fiction is a Luddite Literature” by Cory Doctorow
- : 💰 Link: “Who owns Einstein? The battle for the world’s most famous face”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “Want to make art? You better be rich: how Australian culture locked out the working class”
- : 🏛 Link: “Freedom Isn’t Free” by Wendy Liu
- : 📉 Link: “Antiwork Reddit: Australians join ‘Great Resignation’ over Covid-19 rules”
- : 📰 Link: “Make extreme wealth extinct: it’s the only way to avoid climate breakdown”
- : 🌏 Link: “The Cure to Climate Anxiety? Smashing Capitalism”
- : 💼 Link: “What If People Don’t Want ‘A Career’?” by Charlie Warzel
- : 📰 Link: “The media frames the climate crisis as hopeless – but that’s because they’re hiding the solutions”
- : 📰 Link: “At the brink of a new world system: imperialism, race and caste”
- : 📰 Link: “I’m a Luddite. You should be one too”
- : 🏬 Link: “Pandemic Shoppers Are a Nightmare to Service Workers”
- : 📺 Link: “Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?”
- : 🦠 Link: “Trust and Terror” by Omar Sakr
- : 🇺🇸 Link: “Six Months After the Capitol Riots, We Still Won’t Admit Why So Many People Believe the Big Lie”
- : 🏪 Link: “Nobody Wants to Be a Serf Anymore”
- : ✍🏻 Link: “Self-publishing” by Cory Doctorow
- : 📰 Link: “Is Colombia’s Military Displacing Peasants to Protect the Environment or Sell Off Natural Resources?”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “How the Myths of “Progressive Neoliberalism” Hollowed Out Australia’s Left”
- : 💵 Link: “If Australia was more democratic, would its economic policies be better?”
- : 📰 Link: “Amazon is a disaster for workers. Nomadland glosses over that”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “The children of gods: how power works in Australia”
- : 💵 Link: “The Fight for Free Time Is a Feminist Issue”
- : 🖥 Link: “HERE IS THE ARTICLE YOU CAN SEND TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY SAY “BUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES WITH CRYPTOART WILL BE SOLVED SOON, RIGHT?”” by everest pipkin
- : 📰 Link: “The Utopian Promise of Self-Checkout Machines”
- : 🦠 Link: “Finland Had a Patent-Free COVID-19 Vaccine Nine Months Ago — But Still Went With Big Pharma”
- : 🇦🇺 Link: “‘Destruction by a thousand cuts’: the relentless threat mining poses to the Pilbara cultural landscape”
- : 💵 Link: “The Fake Debate Over a Minimum Wage”
- : 🇺🇸 Link: “Griddy customers face $5,000 electric bills for 5 freezing days in Texas”
Interactions
- : ❤️ Like of: “Not working, as a woman” by Tracy Durnell
- : ❤️ Like of: “Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us?” by Björn Wärmedal
- : ❤️ Like of: “Our Politics at Work” by Jason Becker
- : ❤️ Like of: “Marginalia 19: Four day weekend” by Hugh Rundle
- : ❤️ Like of: “How Working From Home Saved Me” by Alan Marsden
- : ❤️ Like of: “The real cancel culture” by Cory Doctorow
- : ❤️ Like of: “Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast” by Caspar Wrede
- : 🗣 Reply to: “Let's Imagine a Better World” by Tim Smith
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.