Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces.

There’s no such thing as a “free market.”

It is designed.

It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

So I recently was reminded of the tragic adaptation of one of the book series closest to my heart, so I've been doin a book club of two with the pal that reminded me. Unfortunately this means I'm basically doing readalong over Snapchat wherein I read aloud and he reads along >

Courtesy another B’sky poster who had some privacy settings on so I’ll respect that (correct me so i can credit if wrong), here’s an explainer. dredf.org/protect-504/