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).

[...] food aid from the West, for example, is carefully calculated to prevent the worst famines, to ensure that people receive at least enough calories to stay alive, because otherwise the injustices of the global economic system would become so apparent that its legitimacy would collapse and political upheaval would almost certainly ensure. To avoid this outcome, the more cynical among the rich are happy to channel some of their surplus into charity.

you can see neoliberalism as this very careful tightrope--too much of it and you end up redpilling/radicalising people against it; too little of it and you risk making capitalists unhappy

—p.256 Eight (253) by Jason Hickel 6 years, 4 months ago