Ashley Mears

Apr 13, 2024 | znetwork.org | Ashley Mears |Micah Uetricht

Much of the discussion of the massive economic inequality that characterizes American society in the twenty-first century stays in the realm of abstract, bloodless statistics. We don’t often get much of a sense of the texture of life for capitalism’s winners, nor of the variety of little-understood forms of labor that make those super high-end lifestyles possible.

Apr 12, 2024 | jacobin.com | Ashley Mears

Interview by Micah Uetricht Much of the discussion of the massive economic inequality that characterizes American society in the twenty-first century stays in the realm of abstract, bloodless statistics. We don’t often get much of a sense of the texture of life for capitalism’s winners, nor of the variety of little-understood forms of labor that make those super high-end lifestyles possible.