“I don’t look at the economy through the eyes of Wall Street and Park Avenue. Now, unless workers, like the people in Scranton or Claymont that Biden referred to, earn better wages and create consumption demand in the economy, the capitalists, i.e., Wall Street and Park Avenue, would not have anywhere to invest. When an economy reaches a critical threshold …
In a recent interview, actor and director Dhruv Sehgal spoke about how boredom is a distant feeling now. “This constitutes the basic paradox of consumer capitalism—it gets power from the very thing it vilifies,” Mariusz Finkielsztein writes in the research paper, Consumer Boredom: Boredom as a Subliminal Mood of Consumer Capitalism. “For neurodivergent people, boredom can be often painful as …
