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It gets even more complex when you have “upper lower middle” which is how Orwell described his class background. What he means is; posh without the money.
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This is an interesting paper on taste in USA, which is essentially what defines middle classery.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Distinction in America? Recovering Bourdieu's theory of tastes from its critics
This essay critically examines the North American sociological literature that has developed in response to Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction, his tour-de…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Look up Pierre Bourdieu.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
see syed’s bit in times! right on cue.
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The expression of contained cold anger on Gigi‘s face when Pecco crashed and what looks like mild insouciance on Pecco’s face back in the box had the air of finality about it.
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So true, I remember hearing it first in the early ‘90’s from movie studio marketing people and it boiled my piss back then.
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
i posted this on linkedin today and got slapped by coal trolls, very strange.
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
m.youtube.com/watch?v=DoUP...

Lucas Aerospace, back when Tony Benn was minister, but in the end they got shafted by private equity..
THE PLAN THAT CAME FROM THE BOTTOM UP trailer | BFI London Film Festival 2018
YouTube video by BFI
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November 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Creating a product or service and successfully marketing it is really hard. It requires a commitment way beyond 9-5. Trying to do that by committee even harder. Pay people fairly + bonuses. Tax the derivatives speculators at 90%. This doc. also example of what “could be”, workforce innovation,
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Plutes like Ackman add no value to society, John Lanchester/LRB, “Lending money where it’s needed is what the modern form of finance, for the most part, does not do. What modern finance does, for the most part, is gamble.”

But there is a reason why there aren’t more Mondragons, its not banks,
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
small example, splitting the difference, regen. ag. REIT, $126m in assets, loans to farms, registered SEC, *non tradable*, returns ~9% p.a. min investment 10k. it’s capitalism but not the VC version that demands “alpha returns” and converts everything into detivatives.

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Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT: An Organic Farmland Finance Company
Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT is an organic farmland finance company that provides farmer-friendly leases and mortgages to the next generation of organic farmers. Since our founding in 2007, we have d...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Or, for example completely disagree with Rowling, the dolls should be cast in ads and editorial (not that she said they shouldn’t) and also think the NYT made an tremendous error of judgment with their ad.
November 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
The discourse points the other way, they do care, but make a complete hash of it. And yes, if they just focused on making entertaining ads i.e. drumming gorillas (which has got sweet fa to do with choccy but was stratospherically effective) we’d all be much happier!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TWVb...
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
its opportunistic blowback from a recent C4 report into ad diversity by ‘DEI experts’ in EC1, which is flawed in design because reduces ppl to % on s’sheet, which then causes quotas, so end up with all these bland montage checkbox ads which then results in accusations of tokenism = own goal
November 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
of course read that paper, but also read, for example,

ageoftransformation.org/inside-the-b...

and

about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

both written by paris fundamentalists, but very different pov to kallis etc. and then ask yourself what degrowthers omit and whether that constitutes misinformation.
Inside the Breakthrough Science of Clean Energy Superabundance
Deliberately building more capacity than we ‘need’ is actually be the cheapest, fastest, and most reliable path to a 100% clean grid. Here's your guide to the science that says so.
ageoftransformation.org
October 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
stranger that he revered thatcher and yet she was first leader to give climate speech at UN in ‘89.
October 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Can't wait for the “regenerative” rehab branding.
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
recommend, tidal power pivot to hydrogen start up saga, very funny about mckinsey types.

swiftpress.com/book/drayton...
Drayton and Mackenzie | Swift Press
‘A big, bustling novel about love, friendship, money, ambition and the 21st century, packed with humour and intelligent observations … I finished it tear-stained’ Sunday Times ‘Will have you hooked … ...
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October 22, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This reminds me, regardless of who’s doing it, how much I loathe a system where essential work and labour is beneath pmc’s who believe their job and life is “aspirational.”
October 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM