Take Thorstein Veblen's 1899 text The Theory of the Leisure Class, where Veblen wrote that "conspicuous abstention" from work was the surest sign you had actually made it.
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Is acting busy the new Rolex? Science explains why everyone won't shut up about work - 0 views
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Today, the researchers found, the opposite seems true.
The Fight Over Municipal Internet - 0 views
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Cities must take some initiative. It’s worked before, with Chattanooga somewhat famously figuring out how to implement its own gigabit Internet using taxpayer funds.
'Fake News' in America: Homegrown, and Far From New: Chris Hedges - 0 views
How ant societies point to radical possibilities for humans | Aeon Essays - 0 views
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A distributed process can be messy and not fully predictable, yet can provide greater resilience and robustness. Such distributed processes might not be ideal as one of the ‘major instruments of social stability’, in the words of the Director of Hatcheries in Brave New World, but they work beautifully in nature, from brains to ant colonies and, increasingly, in our own engineered networks
'America's only hope' urged to defy Trump over climate change - 0 views
Is Technological Progress Behind Growing Income Inequality? | naked capitalism - 0 views
Uber, Gig Economy: "The Brutality of the System Is Being Lost on Those Who Actually Use... - 0 views
The Whatchamacallit Economy - The New York Times - 0 views
What the West Can Learn From Japan About the Cultural Value of Work - The New York Times - 0 views
Manufacturing jobs are returning to some places. But these jobs are different. - 0 views
We need to feed a growing planet. Vegetables aren't the answer. - 0 views
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Vegetables from local food sources insufficient to meet the caloric and nutritional demands of a growing population
Stories: Platform Cooperativism - 0 views
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