Meritocracy

Anyone familiar with Bryant Terry’s work as a James Beard award–winning educator, chef, and author knows his M.O.: He’s been teaching the importance of eating whole foods, and working to create a healthful, just food system since his beginning as a grassroots activist almost 20 years ago. Terry was inspired…

In the paper Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics by Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss and Danah Boyd the authors investigates the role and pitfalls of ethics in big cooperate firms in Silicon Valley and how underlying logic in the industry influences how ethics is understood…

Network neutrality is the principle that obliges data carriers, the telecommunication companies that transport internet traffic, to not discriminate as to the content that they transport, they are ‘neutral’ towards it. February 24, 2020 by P2P Foundation Leave a Comment — By Michel Bauwens Network neutrality is the principle that…

Imagine Yankee Stadium filled with individuals worth $1 million each; Bloomberg is richer than all of them combined. 6:00 AM ET Staff writer at The Atlantic Mark Felix / AFP / GettyHow rich is Michael Bloomberg?We can measure it in numerical terms: He is worth an estimated $64 billion. That…

The Gray Area of Casting For Characters of Color in Games “People of color are more visible in games today than ever before. We’re even seeing many taking center stage, such as Bayek in Assassin’s Creed Origins, Alex Hunter in FIFA 17’s single-player campaign “The Journey,” and Kait Diaz in…

Yves here. While it was refreshing to see some Democratic presidential candidates depict inequality as an important political and economic issue, it would help if they sharpened their critique of why concentrated wealth is suspect. Too much inherited money lead to the creation of dynasties. As Bloomberg is so vividly…

Image: Mohamed Hassan from Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain Do people in Britain resent the rich? According to two new studies published this week, the answer to this question is: not really.The studies, one commissioned by Trust for London and another by Tax Justice UK, explore public attitudes towards wealth based…

Dr. Laura Baur is a psychiatrist with interests in literature review, reproductive psychiatry, and relational psychotherapy; see her website for more. Note that due to conflict of interest she doesn't treat people in the NYC rationalist social scene. Momentu…

Jarrett Bell USA TODAY Published 7:30 AM EST Feb 13, 2020 Colin Kaepernick’s voice is getting stronger. That much is clear as the former NFL quarterback plans to announce Thursday he is writing a memoir to be released this year through his newly formed company, Kaepernick Publishing, in a partnership with Audible.…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended comments she made about the "bootstrap" meritocracy by invoking Martin Luther King Jr. "I see that the right is worked up that we pointed out the myth of bootstrapping when 60% of the wealth in this country is *inherit…