Tag: ultracapitalism
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Uber Pivots to On-Demand Everything » The company is announcing new partnerships with dockless bike firms, car-sharing services, and transit startups, signaling its desire to help cities service all types… more ›
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Selling Airborne Opulence to the Upper Upper Upper Class » ‘Trump Force One,” a quarter-century-old Boeing 757, might not be the largest, or the fastest, or the most expensive private… more ›
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The Human Cost of the Ghost Economy » Last year I worked undercover at a temp agency in Los Angeles. While I took the assignment for an article I was… more ›
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What Being a Bike Courier Taught Me About Our Broken Economy » Itake my first order on a Sunday morning in April 2016 at a small breakfast café. I wait… more ›
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Machines with Brains » Robots and artificial intelligence are upending everything we thought we knew about what it means to be human. The boundaries between person and machine are becoming… more ›
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The quitting economy » In the early 1990s, career advice in the United States changed. A new social philosophy, neoliberalism, was transforming society, including the nature of employment, and career… more ›
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The Rise of the Thought Leader » Writing in one of Mussolini’s prisons in the 1930s, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci jotted down the fragments that would become his theory… more ›
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The role of capitalism in the rise of populism » LONDON – The biggest political surprise of 2016 was that everyone was so surprised. more ›
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American Capitalism’s Great Crisis » Rana Foroohar is TIME’s assistant managing editor in charge of economics and business. This represents more than just millennials not minding the label “socialist” or… more ›
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Comparing the World's Billionaires, or the Global 'One Percent' » Ever since the rise of the Occupy Movement, we’ve become familiar with the huge amount of the world’s wealth controlled… more ›