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Maybe We're Closer to "You'll Own Nothing" Than We Realize
Maybe we should rephrase the slogan to "you'll appear to own things you don't actually control and be happy."
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The Problem with Housing
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The Decay of Everyday Life
So where does this leave us? We're on our own.
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Precarious: One Misfortune Away from Insolvency
As a result, a significant percentage of households that are considered middle-class are one misfortune away from insolvency.
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Squeezed for Decades, America's Working Class Is Finally Up Against the Wall
The net result is America's working class is up against the wall, maxed out.
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The Illusion of "Growth" in a Social Depression
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Lost in the Vast Wasteland of Social Media
Once we've made "digital visibility" the primary source of our identity, status and self-respect, we've doomed ourselves to wandering, compass-less, in…
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Hikikomori and Lying Flat: When "Making It" Becomes Hopeless
No wonder so many people devote themselves to curating an artificial digital representation of themselves that they reckon is worthy of recognition and…
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Withdrawing from the Rat Race Is Going Global
Mere mortals are left in a hopeless situation. In response, they're withdrawing from the competition en masse.
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Leverage Points: What We Control, What We Don't Control
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I'm Looking for 10 Readers Willing to Pony Up a Few Bucks for the Crazy-Valuable Content Here
Sound of coins rattling in a battered bowl.
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Labor Rising: Will Class Identity Finally Matter Again?
That this level of incendiary outrage has seeped into the mainstream media tells us that the bill for America's gluttony of inequality is long overdue.
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