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The terms exploitation and nurture, on the other hand, describe a division not only between persons but also within persons. We are all to some extent the products of an exploitive society, and it would be foolish and self-defeating to pretend that we do not bear its stamp.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
As debt appeared, money flourished. But for money to have value, an institution, the state, had to make it trustworthy. When we talk about the economy, this is what we are talking about: the complex relations that emerge in a society with a surplus.
Talking to My Daughter
Yanis Varoufakis
Facebook is a company that was founded to nonconsensually rate the fuckability of Harvard undergrads, and it only got worse after that.
An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse
Cory Doctorow
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