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With the critique of #technology as a #system (#Illich), we open up to the #critique of the #centrality (#Clastres, #Scott, #Wittfogel, #Mumford, #Scheidler) and #coloniality (#Quijano) of #power (originally, #technology) as well as those of specialization/ #proletarianization (#Stiegler). To think #Serres' post-polis, we will then lack #Proudhon's critiques of #politics and #Marx and #Polanyi's critiques of the #merchant.
@hosford42 @davevolek @RebeccaSolnit Yes, and I could now answer #Jameson's question: why is it easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of #capitalism ?
Because: the ease of obeying (#Weil), the #proletarianization of #knowledge (#Stiegler), and the #fear of #freedom (#Fromm) form the vicious circle of individual #atomization (#Arendt), the "catastrophic normality" that #Solnit and #Fritz talk about... Bring on the #catastrophe?
(27 Apr) Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)
Today’s links The enshittification of tech jobs: Our last line of defense has fallen. Hey look a...
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/7pmre
#ai #big-tech #class-struggle #class-war #enshittification #i-fight-for-the-user #labor #monopoly #precaratization #proletarianization #tech #tech-industry
The average age of homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 in 2023, according to the National Association of Realtors’ annual state-of-the-market report released Monday. That’s a historic high, up from an average age in the low-to-mid 40s in the early 2010s.
The median age of first-time buyers also rose from 35 to 38, while the share of first-timers dropped from 32% to 24% of all buyers for the year ending July 2024. That marks the lowest percentage since NAR started tracking the metric in 1981.
That’s largely due to rising homeownership costs, he says. The median U.S. home price is now $435,000, per NAR — up 39% since 2020 — while the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate has more than doubled to over 6% in that time.
An 18% down payment — the median percentage buyers put down, according to NAR — on a $435,000 home comes to $78,300. That’s a significant expense, nearly matching the annual U.S. median household income of $80,610, per U.S. Census Bureau data.
Younger buyers are also competing with wealthier all-cash buyers, whose share of home purchases has increased from 20% to 26% in the past year, the study says.
https://archive.org/details/ghanarevolution
Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution by C. L. R. James
Topics
#KwameNkrumah, #Ghana, #goldcoast, #revolution, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #PanAfricanism, #GeorgePadmore, #urbanization, #britishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #proletarianization, #decolonization, #anticolonialism, #PanAfricanism, #marxism, #leninism, #socialism
A collection of essays written over a span of two decades.
