And only then could the question arise whether, behind all that, there was anything personal, anything of my own, left over; or whether all that I had done and all its consequences were merely the empty foam of the sea and a meaningless
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“You can have systems that do every possible thing policymakers can think of to ensure “program integrity” (in other words, making sure no one is getting a dollar more than they should) or you can have systems that scale. You can’t have both.”
― Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
― Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
“It’s a classic government problem, what my friends describe as “yesterday’s technology tomorrow.”
― Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
― Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better
“A film like Wall-E exemplifies what Robert Pfaller has called ‘interpassivity’: the film performs our anti-capitalism for us, allowing us to continue to consume with impunity.”
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
― Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
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