Eliminate Advertising
I came across this provocative essay via Peter Spear’s That Business of Meaning on Substack. This takes my criticism of marketing and advertising to one […]
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Financialization and going off the rails with Norfolk Southern
a revisit with this 3.8.2023 post From Production to Extraction The financialization of corporations is one of the most important developments in capitalism over the […]
Centi-millionaires: the plague of big numbers – millions, billions, trillions.
The Forbes billionaires list in 2019 counted 607 billionaires in the US. By April 2024, this number had grown by 34 percent to 813. In […]
“The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” – more about tech billionaire ideology
The Techno-Optimist Manifesto by Marc Andreessenis a 2023 statement of a libertarian-technology-centric view of the world. This manifesto is primarily based on a faith-based understanding […]
The Peculiar Political Background of Elon Musk
I don’t generally pay much attention to individual players in the ongoing dramas of the world. No surprise, I am drawn to more macro, structural […]
Air Travel and Financialization
Financialization can seem an abstraction too far. The sheer length of the word suggests an academic boondoggle is at hand. But anyone who has taken […]
Three Plagues On Our Species – Nation States, Religion, & Capitalism
Responding to Global Warming and the Pillaging of the Earth Viewed from the perspective of the looming disaster of global warming accompanied by the exhaustion […]
A Different View of Krugman’s Data
Paul Krugman wrote a recent post, Is the Sleeping Giant Awakening about the EU. It inlcuded this chart showing the relative sizes of the economies […]
Secrecy is at the heart of capitalism
Dark money, shell corporations, 501(c)(4) funding (U.S. nonprofit groups that don’t have to disclose donors), Super PAC money, and many more terms describe the tsunami […]