"In the end, Billion Dollar Brand Club is Chicken Soup for the MBA Soul, a reassuring collection of anecdotes that affirms, as the last paragraph of the book lovingly whispers, that there’s still “plenty of room for start-ups.” If the book testifies to anything, it’s that the best and brightest of our country’s business class have invested all of their available brain power into making once durable consumer goods disposable and continuing the atomization and dispossession of worker power by extending lean manufacturing to new realms."

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/convening-citizens-panel-penzance-10-things-i-learned/

"a global survey released just before Davos found that over half of respondents believe capitalism in its current form does “more harm than good.” That belief was expressed by a majority across age group, gender, and income level divides."

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2020/01/22/stakeholder-capitalism-in-davos/

"With such a Left absent, the Greens’ own ambitions are deeply limited. The fact that the need to make a Kurz-led government “more bearable” has become the main argument for their participation in government shows how little of an actual political vision they have."

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/austria-greens-peoples-party-sebastion-kurz-coalition/

"Coca Cola killed trade unionists in Latin America. General Motors built vehicles known to catch fire in collisions. Tobacco companies hid the cancer-causing properties of their products for decades. The catalog of the ethical and moral crimes of corporations is impressive."

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/01/corporations-profit-values-murder-culture-boeing/

Cities like New York, Berlin, and Austin are not “cool” because of their public transportation or how many jobs there are there; instead, they were all direct beneficiaries of a cycle in which artists, punks, and general counterculture types ended up moving there when they were still cheap, treating these underpopulated cities as places where they could live affordably and in close quarters with likeminded people, together producing the sort of radical art and culture that end up being cool enough to get vacuumed into the city’s self-conception, after which a bunch of yuppies move in and fuck it all up.

"The World Wildlife Fund reports that in the last 40 years, wildlife population numbers have declined by 60 percent due to climate change, loss of habitat, and other human-influenced environmental factors. The climate is changing at such a rapid rate that many species can’t adapt."

"In a groundbreaking recent study, researchers ... constructed an “Index of Economic Democracy” and found a statistically significant relationship between levels of economic democracy and both inequality and labor productivity. When measured against other OECD countries, the United States finished dead last in both the raw and weighted Index of Economic Democracy."

https://thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/index-systemic-trends#mass-incarceration