“The rent eats first.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“The relationship between capitalism and eco-disaster is neither coincidental nor accidental: capital’s ‘need of a constantly expanding market’, its ‘growth fetish’, mean that capitalism is by its very nature opposed to any notion of sustainability.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
“No one thought the poor more undeserving than the poor themselves.”
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
― Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
“The last free place in America is a parking spot.”
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops,” reflected the late writer Stephen Jay Gould.”
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
― Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century
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