(To Frost’s ‘Mowing’) The only sound was a million cars as one, with sleepy drivers sipping coffee; work bound. What is this all for? I thought to myself, bent arm in the window shielding the sun, lost in the windy push of static sound, rushing. Not only the cars could speak complaints of controlling higher powers; the drivers also claimed they have no self, as they grumble down the highway […]
Guy Standing on an economy that works for everyone
Development economist Guy Standing, of the University of London, has popularized the term “precariat” to describe a global social class whose most salient characteristic is precariousness. Standing blames neoliberal economic policies, globalization, automation, and outsourcing for the rising number of precariats, who, if not completely locked out of the economy, must increasingly compete for temporary employment at low wages—to the point that they can’t pay off student loans or consumer […]
C. Spivey | Basic income in four tales
Bes awoke in spilled Cheetos. Wiping orange residue on her pink Equine Adventures t-shirt, she freed herself from the lone sheet tangling her legs. Before even going to the bathroom she trudged, bleary-eyed, to her PC in the corner of her bedroom. She needed to hurry to log in to Ultimate Fiction XIV. It was raid day and she was late. “Oh no.” Her fingers hovered over the keyboard as […]
Swords into plowshares | An interview with Paul K. Chappell
Paul K. Chappell was born in 1980 and raised in Alabama, the son of a Korean mother and a biracial father who’d served in the Korean and Vietnam wars. Leaving the army a deeply troubled man, the older Chappell abused and traumatized young Paul, who nevertheless chose to pursue a military career himself, graduating from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2002 and serving in Iraq as an […]
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