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Having a large proportion of the population who wish to work, but cannot, appears to be peculiar to what Marx liked to call “the capitalist mode of production.” But it appears to be, like public debt, a structural feature of the system which must nonetheless be treated as if it were a problem to be solved.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
Destroying the earth for the sake of profit is predicated on the value of more. Love is predicated on the value of enough to share.
We Survived the End of the World
Steven Charleston
The Spanish-American War of 1898 was a turning point in terms of establishing military and naval power on two fronts and marked the first time the United States ventured into extra-continental colonialism.
Education and Capitalism
Sarah Knopp;Jeff Bale
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