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The first casualties of the exploitive revolution are character and community. When those fundamental integrities are devalued and broken, then perhaps it is inevitable that food will be looked upon as a weapon, just as it is inevitable that the earth will be looked upon as fuel and people as numbers or machines.
The World-Ending Fire
Wendell Berry
Amazingly, the response of market-makers running ultrafast trading platforms that usually benefit from lightning speed was to try to slow things down. As if for altruistic reasons, they argued that the kids betting on Gamestop didn’t understand how the market works, and needed to be protected from their own bad judgment. But the real reason the markets needed to be slowed down was that the market-makers’ true customers—the billionaire hedge funds—were getting trounced.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
We are told that the way things are is the only way they can be, because every other model has supposedly already been tried, and all have failed. But these ideas about different ways of being and thinking and living did not all fail; rather, many of them fell, crushed by political violence and racial terror.
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