A graph of intergenerational wealth. It’s not looking great for Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z 🥵… Big okay Boomer energy.
Here is an article about it, but so many people have written about it.
Anti-Capitalist
The Scarcity Trap: Why We Keep Digging When We’re Stuck In A Hole (NPR, 2018)
Researchers show us what a scarcity mindset is and how it affects our behavior and decision-making in this poignant segment.
Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy? (2018)
Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis explains how socialism is rooted in democracy and its history in everyday language to the Cambridge Forum in Massachusetts.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
This book does an unmatched job of bringing Capitalist critique into the information age. It will require a higher reading level, but Zuboff does a great job of contextualizing what she calls surveillance Capitalism by referencing and explaining the historical development of Capitalism.
I enjoyed this book as an audiobook on the Libby app.
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Interview
Liberal media devoted so many hours to unfounded Russia conspiracy theories when it’s so obvious that FaceBook & Google just sold everybody’s data (like they always do) to somebody who used it for the Trump campaign to precisely target swayable voters.