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Twelve million people in the United States alone were officially classified by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as “unemployed” prior to the pandemic, a distressing throng that nonetheless omits the 2.3 million people (of 10 million worldwide) incarcerated.
Immediacy, or the Style of Too Late Capitalism
Anna Kornbluh
Trees have long been trying to reach us. But they speak on frequencies too low for people to hear.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Alas! The leisure which the pagan poet announced has not come. The blind, perverse and murderous passion for work transforms the liberating machine into an instrument for the enslavement of free men. Its productivity impoverishes them.
The Right to Be Lazy and Other Essays
Paul Lafargue and Ulrich Baer
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