We Need to Talk About Money: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Neoliberalism encourages us to think that everything we want and need must be found with a price tag attached.
Sarah Jaffe • Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone
We have not “optimized” our wages, our childcare system, our political representation; we still hardly even think of parity as realistic in those arenas, let alone anything approaching perfection. We have maximized our capacity as market assets. That’s all.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
After all, how can we ever expect to earn as much as a man if we can’t even earn as much as we ourselves are capable of making?
Barbara Stanny • Secrets of Six-Figure Women
Budget culture makes money all about you — your actions, responsibilities and mindset. But individual actions can’t overcome persistent pay gaps, generational trauma, systemic oppression and algorithmic bias. No money management method can square rising housing costs with stagnant wages. No amount of self control can make up for the costs of “profe... See more