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The monetization of social capital is the strip-mining of community. It should not be surprising that money is deeply implicated in the disintegration of community, because money is the epitome of the impersonal. Convert two distinct forests into money, and they become the same. Applied to cultures, the same principle is fast creating a global monoculture where every service is a paid service.
Sacred Economics
Charles Eisenstein
Huber felt the capitalist division of the mental healthcare system along class lines was a fundamental injustice and readily visible in the flawed model of “continuum community care” the university was adopting. To Huber, capitalism was the true hurdle standing in the way of helping his patients. He attempted to reenvision not only the means of therapeutic intervention but the point of therapy altogether, reframing madness not as a problem of individual biology, heredity, or circumstance, but as a symptom of a deeper underlying sickness of the capitalist political economy.
Health Communism
Beatrice Adler-Bolton;Artie Vierkant
Due to increased technological efficiency in the process of production, workers either become unemployed and part of an army of surplus labor whose presence can be used to keep down wages (as tends to happen in the Western world today), or they become subjected to extremely cruel working conditions that are designed to extract as much surplus value as possible from their labor (as tends to happen in the parts of the world where we now locate most of our manufacturing).
This Life
Martin Hägglund
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