do YOU have capitalism poisoning? 🤢
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do YOU have capitalism poisoning? 🤢
Endless wanting will wreck us and also the world that is our home. By contrast, our economic order and the ostensible health of our society is premised on the generation of insatiable desires, chiefly for consumer goods and services. Your contentment and mine would wreak havoc on the existing order of things. “That’s enough, thanks,” is arguably a ... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Ill With Want
Boardrooms are used to responding to microeconomic threats—new competitors, shocks in supply and demand, more complex markets. But today’s biggest threat is of a different order. It’s glaring down from the macroeconomic heights: prosperity itself has reached sharply diminishing returns.
Umair Haque • The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business
A capitalist society benefits from you feeling insecure, from you being lonely. The more lonely and insecure you feel, the more you believe the idea that you need those new skincare products, that big house, that flashy car. Maybe, if you look like that movie star, people will flock to you and provide that feeling of being wanted that we all crave.
... See moreit’s not entirely our own fault that we approach our finite time in such a perversely instrumental and future-focused way. Powerful external pressures push us in this direction, too, because we exist inside an economic system that is instrumentalist to its core. One way of understanding capitalism, in fact, is as a giant machine for instrumentalisi
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