books How "meritocracy" went from a joke to a dogma, and destroyed the lives of everyone it touched Cory Doctorow
usausausa America's new aristocracy: the 9.9% and their delusion of hereditary meritocracy Cory Doctorow
guillotine watch Stock market gains to the richest 2% of Americans in 2017 could pay for the entire nation's social programs Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Abolish Silicon Valley: memoir of a driven startup founder who became an anti-capitalist activist Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Thomas Piketty's new book uses data to trace how inequality changes ideology Cory Doctorow
elections Bernie Sanders will use a tax on Wall Street speculators to wipe out $1.6 trillion in US student debt Cory Doctorow
science fiction Ted Chiang's "Op Ed From the Future": socialized transhumanism vs American oligarchy Cory Doctorow
class war A former college admissions dean explains the mundane reverse affirmative action that lets the rich send their kids to the front of the line Cory Doctorow
education McMansion Hell tours the homes of the "meritocratic" one-percenters who allegedly bought their thickwitted kids' way into top universities in the college admissions scandal Cory Doctorow
corruption Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping's anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power Cory Doctorow
class war Better education doesn't correlate strongly to economic mobility (but union membership does) Cory Doctorow
