As long as the material basis of our well-being is understood to come from paid employment, we will continue to lean upon the moral coercion of the work ethic to justify the decision to not give people the material support they need, and we will do this whether there is a need for everyone to work or not. Tim Dunlop, “Why the Future is Workless“ … Continue reading What Are People For? AI, UBI & Human Work
The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing E.F. Schumacher First things first: let’s remind ourselves of the (seemingly) unassailable nature of the current American plutocracy. This plutocratic infrastructure is so tightly sealed that seemingly nothing can crack it. The two main parties take turns at the reins of power, mostly burning their time in office just … Continue reading Dissolving the Plutocracy from Below
As we come down the home stretch of the shitshow that is the 2024 Presidential election, it has become clear that our problem is not just Trump, or his legion of followers, or even the entire American political system, which has tipped over completely into plutocratic servitude. What is really crippling us is a dysfunctional set of ideas, a system of zombie ideas so entrenched … Continue reading Hard to Kill: Zombie Ideas That Need Slaying
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