Almost without realizing it, we have drifted from having market economies to becoming market societies. The difference is this: A market economy is a tool – a valuable and effective tool – for organizing productive activity. A market society, by contrast, is a place where almost everything is up for sale. It is a way of life in which market values seep into social relations and govern every domain.
Author: Edouard Chazal
Dissatisfaction City
The spectacle of wealth does not merely enforce consumptive conformity, but also promotes consumption through disinhibition. It plays not merely a coercive role, but also a disinhibitory one by invoking the social magic of costume parties.
Eight Corporate Subsidies in the Fiscal Cliff Bill
Most tax credits drop straight to the bottom line – it’s why companies like Enron considered its tax compliance section a “profit center”. A few hundred billion dollars of tax expenditures is a major carrot to offer.
Cheers To You
You can’t plan anything in life. For the longest time I believed the illusion of control through the long-term plans we make and quickly learned that I was wrong. Little did I know that in this short duration of my journey, I would learn more about my purpose than anything I could have imagined for myself.
→ Falon Fatemi
Real and Virtual Firearms Nurture a Marketing Link
“I personally think they should not have real weapons in the games in the first place,” he said. “It’s just bad to link things you can do in a game with tools of death you can use in real life.”
Abnormal Capitalist 