#capitalism

#capitalism

We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century. When we look around we see an extraordinary paradox. On the one hand, we have access to remarkable new technologies and a collective capacity to produce more food, more stuff than we need or that the planet can afford. Yet at the same time, millions of people suffer in conditions of severe deprivation. What explains this paradox? Capitalism.

"I think capitalism is a great system that probably has, you know, enriched the lives of billions of people," he told Fortune over Zoom from his office in Berkeley, where he teaches courses on tax and nonprofit law. "But I'm not sure that our system is a functioning capitalist system right now."

Many of the people most affected by what we talk about here will never come to this conference,

This is probably only funny to me as a first-gen American of Western European parents.

Additionally, since 2022, 12 states have implemented requirements for high schools to teach financial literacy, with some also incorporating the fundamentals of free-market capitalism. Nearly a dozen high school teachers told Business Insider that they've noticed their students are increasingly engaged in lessons on capitalism - and are skeptical toward the model. That's largely because they're more aware of economic conditions, such as the persistent wealth gap.

We spend one-third of our lives asleep. This biological fact is something that, with time and technology, is less and less taken for granted. In many science fiction stories, the future of sleep is cozy and idyllic - an elevated state living within dream world. In others, sleep is more of an evolutionary shackle that gets in the way of productivity. The latter focuses on questions that haunt anyone who feels there are not enough hours in the day. What if we didn't have to sleep?

The 73-year-old Boston-born historian has long argued that, since the late-1960s, the countercultural rebellion has been playing into the hands of big business interests that is, capitalism. In his books of essays Desire and Fate (2025), published by Eris Press the writer and former war correspondent presents a fierce critique of the left. He believes that progressives have forgotten about unions, labor and class, in order to embrace other causes, such as race, gender and the environment.

I dream of a future where everyone has what they need and where design supports human and planetary flourishing. This vision fills me with hope while also making me acutely aware of the reality many designers face today. Our work is done within the dominant capitalist framework that prioritizes financial growth above all else, often at the expense of true flourishing.

But as an Indigenous person who studies environmental humanities, this sort of effort, and the debate about it, misses a key ecological perspective. Biologically speaking, it is normal, and even critical, for nature to do more during the brighter months and to do less during the darker ones. Animals go into hibernation, plants into dormancy. Humans are intimately interconnected with, interdependent on, and interrelated to nonhuman beings, rhythms and environments.

The film focuses on Teddy ( Jesse Plemons) and his cousin, Donny (Aidan Delbis), who swiftly capture Michelle Fuller ( Emma Stone), the CEO of a major pharmaceutical company. Having surfed the dark recesses of the web, consumed a steady diet of conspiracy theories, and done their own 'research,' Teddy is convinced that Michelle is an alien from the Andromeda species and is using her position of power to hasten humanity's destruction.

There is no origin story of the police without the story of the reorganization of human society by the birth, expansion, and dominance of the system of capitalism. While capitalism did not create inequality, it structured society such that new methods and tools were required to impose its uniquely unequal order - with threat of, and acts of, violence - in new ways. The police became one of the most important tools, specially adapted to fit the contours of this new social order.

Kinga, the protagonist in "A New New Me," is a forty-year-old corporate employee who struggles with the grind of everyday life, facing exhaustion and self-optimizing pressures.

The Amazon is not a resource to be exploited, but a living, breathing archive of ancestral knowledge, dignity, and resistance.

Ruth Wilson Gilmore argues that capitalism and racism are inextricably linked, producing a condition she describes as 'unfreedom', where lives are constrained by harmful systems.

Martha Wells suggests that the real threat lies in tech companies enslaving robots for profit, rather than fully sentient machines taking over the world.

Marx believed that capitalism, especially in its technofeudal phase, alienates individuals from their labor and products, creating isolated selves amid abundant technology.

Irène Drésel's score subtly shapes the atmosphere of the film, underscoring the relentless and exhausting daily routine of Julie, a single mother navigating work and childcare responsibilities.

The global economy is getting a hardware refit and trying out a new operating system-in effect, a full reboot, the likes of which we have not seen in nearly a century.

Bechdel explores the struggles of writing in a capitalist world through an auto-fiction narrative featuring a character based on herself, facing financial complexities.

The journey to the stage of Lauren Yee's new play, Mother Russia, has been a bit bumpy, with its opening delayed due to COVID-19 and mixed reactions in Seattle.

Dmitri admits that his shop is a front for a surveillance operation, reflecting the hostile reality of post-Soviet life, where commerce and control intertwine, reminiscent of past regimes.

Trump's initiative to give newborns $1,000 for the stock market is framed as fostering capitalism, yet it's built on a tax cut for the wealthy, not on genuine family support.

The documentary Hands on a Hardbody can be seen as a tragicomic fable about late-capitalist dreams, much like how Morgan Wallen's music reflects diverse societal ideals.