Stephen

“The full-time job—to which we've attached all of the rules about treating workers fairly—is dissolving, and the community of workers who are treated as second-class citizens, who aren't protected by the same laws or entitled to the same benefits as other workers, is growing. That is a big, scary problem, and one worth studying.”
― Sarah Kessler

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

“... Americans were now supposed to make their own sense of the world. There was no dependable authority left to turn to, no life raft in the increasingly perilous informational sea. This coincided with an age when Americans now needed to understand more of the world than ever before. A factory worker in suburban Ohio now needed to understand the cultures of places like Bangalore and Beijing if he wanted to know why he'd lost his job. Which, incidentally, he probably had. Now broke, or under severe financial pressure, with no community leaders, no community, no news he can trust, Joe American has to turn on the Internet and tell himself a story that makes sense to him.
What story is he going to tell?”
― Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

“A know-it-all is a person who knows everything except for how annoying he is.”
― Demetri Martin, This is a Book