#power

The thing that's shifted in my lifetime is shame as a public mechanism for affecting change. I still think that it has a massive effect (especially on men) in the personal realm, but because of news cycles, algorithmic feeds, and the pace of modern life, we live in a world of what this article calls "attention spam".

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Only 0.1% of Elon Musk's trillion-dollar wealth is in cash, with the rest depends on the value of shares in his company on the stock market. But I'm not here to quibble over whether he was richer than historical figures such as Mansa Musa. It's all gauche, unnecessary, and built on the back of industrial level theft.

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