It’s Not Just Wayfair: Why Does ALL Of Your Furniture Fall Apart?
If you have ever bought a Wayfair couch or tried to assemble an IKEA anything, you know furniture sucks now. Fast furniture has taken over — meaning cheap quality for…
How This Billionaire Couple STOLE California’s Water Supply
While 40 million Californians suffer through unprecedented drought, one billionaire couple owns a massive share of the state's water system, largely seized in a series of secretive meetings two decades…
“just doing their jobs”
making blood money
money as free speech
only if you're rich
Scams as a business model
how US healthcare works
The Invisible Man
We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the Walmart, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he…
Inside The Two Companies That Dominate The U.S. Carrot Crop
It sounds weird to say that carrots are having a moment, but social media has catapulted the humble root to a status resembling stardom. Anecdotal evidence suggests online carrot recipes…
Whole Foods Chantilly Cake through a Marxist lens.
why we can't have nice things under capitalism
The mere future by Sarah Schulman
I think the way to make a dystopia its bleakest is to run it through the language of marketing. This book is so fucking dark. The mere future by Sarah…
Shell game
you can learn more about what happened to Red Lobster from this excellent article by Gretchen Morgenson. {read comic here}