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we all made it a long time ago (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Recommendation: the book Bullshit Jobs

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I've heard of this one. Maybe I'll check it out.

The downside of reading a lot of depressing non fiction is I increasingly feel like I'm living in a cuckoo clock, and get frustrated with how everyone else seems oblivious and uncaring.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If you want an understanding of the cuckoo clock and how it came to be, I highly recommend you watch the BBC documentary HyperNormalisation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

It argues that following the global economic crises of the 1970s, governments, financiers and technological utopians gave up on trying to shape the complex "real world" and instead established a simpler "fake world" for the benefit of multi-national corporations that is kept stable by neoliberal governments.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I want the inside of my house to look like the outside of an insane asylum

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Also Graeber’s Debt.

So many of Graeber’s ideas are right on the dot. Those two books helped me understand economics better than fucking Milton Friedman ever could.

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