Considering the alpha wolf myth originates from observing a stressed out wolf population in captivity, unable to live out their fulfilling wolfy lives, the emergence of purported "alpha males" is an oddly appropriate indicator of what three decades of neoliberalism has done to our wellbeing.
servobobo
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Seems to me the institutional investors aren't interested at the price they're asking.
Can't keep a worker who shows solidarity with the others, they might get the wrong idea about who runs the place.
"Economic fatigue" nice newspeak for being piss-poor as a consequence of legislative failure to curtail wage theft over the past few decades.
Some "extreme left" proposals from the article:
- Unpaid sick leave
- Reductions in unemployment benefits
- Restrictions on the right to strike
Looks like bog-standard conservative politics to me, why do you feel the need to defend them?
Unfortunately for the post scarcity information society, the capitalists are in fact moving on — to fascism.
It goes even further back: Joseph Fourier wrote about the mechanism for global warming in the 1820s although he didn't make the connection with CO2. We've effectively had 200 years to deal with this shit.
Do people want big trucks or have they been manipulated through clever marketing to want big trucks because they're more profitable for the manufacturers (marketing included)?
Don't let your dreams be just dreams and peer into the infrared spectrum where you, too, can emit visible light!