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.

This is an interesting paper on taste in USA, which is essentially what defines middle classery.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Look up Pierre Bourdieu.

see syed’s bit in times! right on cue.

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.

So true, I remember hearing it first in the early ‘90’s from movie studio marketing people and it boiled my piss back then.

i posted this on linkedin today and got slapped by coal trolls, very strange.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=DoUP...

Lucas Aerospace, back when Tony Benn was minister, but in the end they got shafted by private equity..

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,

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,

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.

iroquoisvalley.com

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.

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...

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

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.

stranger that he revered thatcher and yet she was first leader to give climate speech at UN in ‘89.

Can't wait for the “regenerative” rehab branding.

recommend, tidal power pivot to hydrogen start up saga, very funny about mckinsey types.

swiftpress.com/book/drayton...

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.”