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Tag Archives: Precariat
America’s Rich Are Completely Losing Touch With Reality — and That’s a Really Bad Sign
By Shaun Bradley Source: AntiMedia The divide between wealthy and working class has grown wider each year since the last financial crisis, but this disconnect is about much more than just money or politics. The super-rich, in particular, have become … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Inequality, Recession, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged Bunkers, Class Divide, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Global Elites, income gap, Middeclass, Parabiosis, Precariat, Preppers, Social Unrest, Wealth Disparity, Wealthy
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It Is Bettter to Light One Candle than to Curse the Darkness
By Harvey Lothian Source: Dissident Voice The world is in bad shape. Every reasonably intelligent, aware, objective person in the world knows, if only intuitively, that something is very, very wrong. There should not be this many armed conflicts, this much … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Philosophy, Recession, Social Control, society, war
Tagged 1%, Debt, Economic Disparity, Economics, Global Hunger, Homelessness, Income Inequality, Poverty, Precariat, war, Wealth, Wealth Gab
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Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless
On negotiating the false idols of neoliberal self-care By Laurie Penny Source: The Baffler Late capitalism is like your love life: it looks a lot less bleak through an Instagram filter. The slow collapse of the social contract is the … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Health, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged activism, Audre Lorde, capitalism, Economics, Life Hacking, Life-Hacks, Neoliberalism, Occupy Movement, Precariat, Precarity, Self-Care, Self-Love, Wellness, Yoga
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Against meaninglessness and precarity: the crisis of work
By David Frayne Source: ROAR Magazine If work is vital for income, social inclusion and a sense of identity, then one of the most troubling contradictions of our time is that the centrality of work in our societies persists even when … Continue reading
Posted in culture, divide and conquer, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Benefits Street, capitalism, David Frayne, Dr. Adam Perkins, Income Inequality, Labor, Meaningless Work, Precariat, Precarity, technology, The Welfare Trait, Towards a Post-Work Society, unemployment, Work
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On the Process of Awakening
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We cannot help but feel a hunger for authenticity, honesty, spiritual solace and human connection, but these are precisely what is scarce in our social and economic structure. There is a tremendous … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, consciousness, Conspiracy, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, Health, Labor, Philosophy, Podcasts, propaganda, Psychology, Recession, Revolution, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology, Video, Work
Tagged Alienation, central banks, Cryptocurrencies, Economics, Money, Philosophy, Precariat, society, Spiritual Awakening, Systemic Collapse
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“Why Don’t You Just Get a Better Job” and Other Dumb Shit People Say to Low-Income Earners Stuck in Precarious Work
By Chloe Ann King Source: The Hampton Institute For most of my working life I have been stuck in the hospitality industry which is lowly paid, painfully precarious and poorly regulated. In New Zealand, where I live, hospitality employers mostly … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, Labor, Recession, Social Control, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Aotearoa, Dystopia, Economic Disparity, Economic Insecurity, Economics, Financial Crash, Hillary Clinton, income gap, Labor, Minimum Wage, New Zealand, Poverty, Precariat, Service Worker, Tony Robbins, Unions, Wealth Inequality, Work
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In a highly indebted world, austerity is a permanent state of affairs
By Mark Blyth Source: Aeon By 2010, everyone had heard the ‘austerity’ rallying cry. Immediately following the 2008 financial crisis, especially in Europe, it resounded: ‘Stimulate no more, now is the time for all to tighten!’ And tighten governments did, … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, Recession, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, Work
Tagged austerity, Bailouts, Debt, Economics, EU, financial crisis, Globalization, Greece, IMF, Neoliberalism, Precariat, recession, Wages
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For Purely Technical Reasons
By Dmitry Orlov Source: Club Orlov It is tempting for us to think that our technological choices—whether we choose to live in a city, a suburb or out in the country; whether we want to drive a pick-up truck, a … Continue reading
Posted in Consumerism, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Energy, History, Social Control, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged 1%, Automobiles, Batteries, Big Oil, Cars, Collapse, Economics, Electric Cars, Energy, environment, Lithium, Peak Oil, Precariat, Suburbs, technology, Traffic, Transportation
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