Still reading What If? by Randall Munroe.
A very entertaining read, could’ve finished by now, but reading it slow so that I can understand some of the science. More than halfway through.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power by Jared Ball
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-42355-1.pdf
It’s thesis is that “buying power” as a proxy for political power is incoherent because the methodology is bad, the conclusions don’t follow, and the institutions that propagate the myth have conflicts of interests.
I’m interested in how capitalism has captured revolutionary and ethical action with “consumer choice”. That how we choose to shop is civic action to replace community and political organization.