Daria

“All of this upends the usual story that we’re told about the rise of capitalism. This was hardly a natural and inevitable proccess. There was no gradual ‘transition’, as people like to assume, and it certainly wasn’t peaceful. Capitalism rose on the back of organised violence, mass impoverishment, and the systematic destruction of self-sufficient subsistence economies. It did not put an end to serfdom; rather, it put an end to the progressive revolution that had ended serfdom. Indeed, by securing virtually total control over the means of production, and rendering peasants and workers dependent on them for survival, capitalists took the principles of serfdom to new extremes.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“The offer hangs in the air for a second, the kind of second where a full four-course meal of emotions is devoured within it. Regret, then nervousness, then anticipation, then dread. All chewed and swallowed and partially digested, mixed with saliva and swirling around, just waiting. And waiting. And waiting.”
― Jennette McCurdy, Half His Age

“That's what happens when people die. They take themselves with them and you never ever find out anything new about them ever.”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep

“to exploit something, you must first regard it as less than human – as an object.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World