Treating the environment as a big trash can is evidently a bad idea. Under capitalism, however, this idea is not so self evident and requires a burden of proof. In our advanced and thoroughly propagandized consumer society, if it’s slightly more profitable to poison the ecosystems that we desperately rely on, that will be…

Austria has a very long tradition of thinking itself the “island of the blessed”. Proudly insulated from the troubles that affect most of the world. That is not completely undeserved. Even by first world standards, Austria offers a high protection from the greed of our “free market” system. This is shown in Austrian workers…

Asking for a raise should not feel feel like demanding the world, but employers routinely make it feel this way. The companies follow a very similar playbook when denying workers better compensations. No matter how rich a company is, it never has the money to pay the bottom 90% of workers enough. When Austrian…