Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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taxes are the only weapon

[...] When he became president in 1933, Roosevelt knew precisely nothing about the policies he would adopt. But he did know that the Depression and austerity were bringing America to its knees, that the state had to assert control over a financial capitalism gone mad. Today, in 2012, four years aft…

—p.170 Why Save the Bankers?: And Other Essays on Our Economic and Political Crisis François Hollande, a New Roosevelt for Europe? (169) by Thomas Piketty
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firms have been pampering their shareholders

[...] there’s a point that nevertheless goes strangely unmentioned in the Cotis report: firms have been pampering their shareholders in recent years, resulting in a troubling fall in the share of profits devoted to investment. This reality is hidden by the authors’ choice to focus on gross profits,…

—p.62 Forgotten Inequalities (60) by Thomas Piketty
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it doesn’t necessarily have to be run by the state archive/dissertation

I’m not saying that the system should be run by the state. But you would have at least to pass some sort of legislation to change the status of data, and you would need the state to enforce it. Certainly, the less the state is involved otherwise, the better. I’m not saying that there should be a St…

—p.65 New Left Review 91 Socialize the Data Centres! (45) by Evgeny Morozov