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I think it does come down to the rules being different. Some people are afforded the luxury of time and funding to tinker and experiment. We all know the stats indicating that women-run startups, startups run by Black and Latinx folks are just not funded. Whereas if you’re already a tech billionaire, it’s much easier to get the capital to pursue these moonshot projects.

Who Gets to Live Forever? With Tamara Kneese and Santiago Sanchez

Tamara Kneese , Santiago Sanchez

Sociologist Jens Beckert notes that finance always needs to craft stories about the steps that will transform the present into a specific financial future. Synthetic, made-up assets are constructed through a process of “narrative transformation”(37) that, in turn, transforms socially the participants in the economic activity related to these assets.

The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)

paletten.net

As the foundational crimes of the colonial project were escaping the Shadow Lands and coming to light, one thing was clear to many: The comforting mythologies of official history simply would not do any longer. Coming just one year after the racial reckonings that followed George Floyd’s killing, reckonings that had also shaken Canadian institutions in virtually every sector and profession, these monstrous, long-buried crimes inflicted on young bodies and minds by church and state demanded of Canadians a new story of who we are, how we got here, and who we want to be going forward.

Doppelganger

Naomi Klein

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