https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/marx-exploitation-abc-unequal-world/
openDemocracy
Marx on exploitation: an ABC for an unequal world
Exploitation begins with the terms on which workers sell their labour power to capital. Marx saw that 140 years ago, and it hasn’t changed since.
"Facebook knows that divisive and conspiratorial content drives engagement: A 2018 study by its own researchers found as much. But the platform’s executives buried the report, aware that doing anything to curtail engagement would threaten its massive growth rate and billion-dollar revenue streams. Another internal study found that 64 percent of those who joined an extremist group on the platform did so because Facebook’s algorithms recommended it to them."
https://newrepublic.com/article/160398/welcome-pandemic-cliff
https://newrepublic.com/article/160398/welcome-pandemic-cliff
The New Republic
Welcome to the Pandemic Cliff
The end of the year is a month away, and remaining relief programs are expiring. We are desperately unprepared for what waits on the other side.