The Myth of Money, Work, and Employment
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If the system can be gamed and money can be made without doing much of anything for anyone but yourself, what's the point of actually trying to contribute to society?
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Why Capitalism Can't be Relied upon in a Crisis
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Chasing the goal of maximizing profit for its own sake can have disastrous effects in times of uncertainty, when everything doesn't go exactly according to plan.
Read MoreHow the Concept of ‘Branding’ Ruined Capitalism
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Here’s a quick tip for all you aspiring marketers out there; people are stupid. They’ll buy products for a million and one reasons, and it’s entirely possible that none of those reasons include any variant on the words ‘need’ or ‘good’. People will buy one product over a similar product simply because they like the way that the box looks at the store. God damn.
Read MoreThe 'Pay to Live' Paradigm just isn't Working Anymore
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Imagine what someone could do if they were freed from the choice to work at Wendy’s for $4.75 an hour, or starving. Learning a new skill, starting a business, training for a job that they actually want; it all becomes possible.
Read MoreMyth: Capitalism Lifted Millions out of Poverty
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Fact: Members of industrialised nations imposed their own definition of wealth onto indigenous populations and, using this, determined that those populations to be ‘poor’ because of the lack of what made their own nations ‘rich’. They then capitalised on this new information by promising to make them rich, but instead exploiting them for cheap labour.
Read MoreAnimal Welfare, Meat Production, and the Current Model
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Humans have been killing animals for their meat for thousands of years, but never in history has meat production been as soulless and ruthless as it is right now.
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