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The convenience regime sells us a peculiar bargain: “I'll free you from the messiness of human existence so you can focus on being yourself more.”
But aren't you the sum of the tasks you spend your time on? Isn't there something fundamentally human about wrestling some messy reality rather than just managing its digital alternative?
In Praise of Inconvenience: The Hidden Costs of a Convenient World
Simone
I think most entrepreneurs know that. It's when companies are captured by big capital with publicly traded companies or private equity that they turn to maximization. That's the problem, not profit itself. I make the distinction between profit making and profit maximizing.
Marjorie Kelly on “Wealth Supremacy” & the Blueprint for a New Economy
Christopher Marquis
There was no higher system guiding Nickel’s brutality, merely an indiscriminate spite, one that had nothing to do with people. A figment from tenth-grade science struck him: a Perpetual Misery Machine, one that operated by itself without human agency. Also, Archimedes, one of his first encyclopedia finds. Violence is the only lever big enough to move the world.
The Nickel Boys
Colson Whitehead
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