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What’s This for You Feed? Is It Algorithmic?
Mammoth Blog
We evolved ***because*** we cooperate, not despite it. So, how do we find ourselves stuck in a growth-based primarily capitalist economic system that doesn’t reflect not just human nature, but nature in general?
"We Are All Socialists in Our Private Lives"
Erin Remblance
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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