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It is an attack on the cruel idea that work confers dignity and therefore that people who don’t work—the old, the disabled—lack value. On the contrary, dignity is intrinsic to all human beings, and in designing a work regime rigged for the profit of the few and the exhaustion of the many, we have failed to honor one another’s humanity.

The Baffler • The New Neurasthenia

God, I pray first of all for the brothers and sisters in this jail, that you might strengthen them. I pray for the people who come to the Downtown Chapel to get something to eat and for the staff that provides for them; I pray for all the poor; I pray in thanksgiving for all the people who help me here and for Father Gary, who comes to see me. Plea

Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

Omega Principle

Heather Heying • A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Trout held up a single finger. “One.” “Was it enthusiastic?” “It was insane. The writer said I should be President of the World.” It turned out that the person who had written this letter was Eliot Rosewater, Billy’s friend in the veterans’ hospital near Lake Placid. Billy told Trout about Rosewater. “My God—I thought he was about fourteen years ol

Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five

-It lets workers reclaim their agency.

Rex Woodbury • What People Misunderstand About The Creator Economy

THE PEOPLE QUESTION

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One

In the 1980s, Milwaukee was the epicenter of deindustrialization. In the 1990s, it would become “the epicenter of the antiwelfare crusade.” As President Clinton was fine-tuning his plan to “end welfare as we know it,” a conservative reformer by the name of Jason Turner was transforming Milwaukee into a policy experiment that captivated lawmakers ar

Matthew Desmond • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Vic is a pointy-faced man of about forty with slicked-back dark hair who looks like a weaselly sort of hood, or maybe just a weasel, with his small eyes and vicious smile. Before landing here at the DMV, Vic worked as a bouncer, a roadie, a security guard, a fitness trainer, an auditor, and a head cook—name a job where you got to intimidate people

Katherine Heiny • Games and Rituals

The Corrective Lens