The Origins of Capitalism
Editor’s Note: This post is an excerpt from my forthcoming book tentatively titled The Great Mechanism of Western Capitalism: Understanding the Relentless Nature of Capitalism. The […]
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Clash of the Elites: Digital Zuckerberg vs. Capitalist Congress
Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance before Congress this week produced an amazing level of media hand wringing together with an incredible display of lawmaker naivete about contemporary […]
Stephen Hawking and Dangers of AI
by Anthony Signorelli Humanity is not going to end because of artifical intelligence (AI), but capitalism is. Last week, the venerable Stephen Hawking expressed his […]
The Digitalized Economy: Does It Mean the End of Ownership?
by Anthony Signorelli One of the causalities of the digital economy is the sense and value of ownership. In the digital world, it is decreasingly […]
Argument with Saving Capitalism by Robert Reich
I just finished reading Saving Capitalism, by Robert Reich, whose insights and perspective I usually admire. Indeed, there is much to learn from this book […]
A Soul-Sucking Job, the Tyranny of the Office, and Oppression
We hear this phrase “the soul-sucking job” all the time, but what does it really mean? And why does nearly everyone have one? If you […]
The Four Challenges to Capitalism
As I have entered the discussion on postcapitalism in our community group on Facebook, personal emails, and on www.postcapfuture.com, several people have asked, “What about […]
Capitalism vs. the Climate and the Need for Ideas that Will Indeed Change Everything
Argument with This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate, by Naomi Klein. Key Ideas: Climate denial, free trade, big green, carbon market, Blockadia, indigenous logic, capitalism, climate […]
The Coming Collapse of Capitalism
Over the next one hundred years, capitalism will come to an end. It will do so not because of a competitive system, but because its […]