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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…

In the 1997 while testifying in congress, the chair of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan explained why the economy was doing so well. A big part according to him was due to “greater workers insecurity”. The economy just fresly introduced concepts such as: All of that made the workers terribly isolated, desperate and worse…

Social life is only possible when people believe that: Anyone who worked at Saubermacher for a long enough time has seen how incredible the company’s culture is at driving these ideas out of people’s heads. Social life is a dangerous process when you are a non unionized big corporation. People may start to develop…

When describing the Roman campaigns of military decimations, Nicollo Machivelli, the famous analyst of power wrote that it was an admirable tactic. As brutal as it was, he said, it solved a very important problem for the king. If the army was suspected of disobedience, he needed a credible punishment. Killing all the people…

In the beginning of 2026, Forbes published a list of 25 most charitable billionaires. The list included people like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, George Soros, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckenberg and Charlse Koch. The latter has been donating a generous 3% of his 73 billions to causes such as poverty alleviation, arts, culture and economic…

The politicians, media and other benefactors of privilege rarely talk honestly about class. When they do, it is usually presented through the lense of meritocracy. Our system is supposed to distribute the goods of life unequally, but fairly. Those who already own enough capital to start a business, know the right politicians and are…

In 1917 a group of young working women were hired by US Radium Corporation to dial pads for watches and other military equipment. The equipment needed to glow in the dark and the radioactive decay from radium was strong enough to keep the phosphor glowing, but also not strong enough to endanger the military…

The common myth is that being against capitalism is the same as hating rich people, property or even freedom. We won’t bother too much arguing against this view here. Too much ink has been spilled arguing against the windmills of propaganda. The point is not to prove the lies of the system wrong. They…