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Pink, a protagonista desta série, não é tão carismática quanto Poppy Starfire.

O autor tem um conceito de esquizofrenia de que eu nunca tinha ouvido falar.
É bem curioso que o autor escolhe exemplificar alienação com o que supostamente acontece em países socialistas.

[...] the reason most people see time as money is not that they want to, but that they have to. This modern view of time can’t be extricated from the wage relationship, the necessity of selling your time, which, as common and unquestionable as it seems now, is as historically specific as any other method of valuing work and existence.

In work, [Pieper] writes, time is horizontal, a pattern of forward-leaning labor time punctuated by little gaps of rest that simply refresh us for more work. For Pieper, those little gaps are not leisure. True leisure, instead, exists on a “vertical” axis of time, one whose totality cuts through or negates the entire dimension of workaday time, “run[ning] at right angles to work”.

[...] the system prioritizes short-term success over long-term benefits and treats workers as means rather than as ends.

Industrial capitalism has made many cheap trinkets, but it has not produced many beautiful cities.

It is helpful to realize that feeling as though glamour is elsewhere has always been present, including in places where now, thanks to art, we have no problem identifying some value.

I know what really matters, and I know what doesn't. That, too, is love.