“Today, I just want to hate.” Writer Alec MacGillis quotes these bitter words from Chris MacLarion, a former union steel worker in Sparrows Point, Maryland, who watched the decades-long decline of the plant, his livelihood and his dignity. In his new book
Fulfillment Winning and Losing in a One-Click America, MacGillis examines the source of MacLarion’s anger and the price we all pay for embracing the powerful technologies of convenience and control.
MacGillis focuses on Amazon, now the largest employer in the United States and run by Jeff Bezos, the wealthiest man in the world.
Fulfillment looks at how and why Amazon uses the intersecting spheres of economics and politics to its benefit while small communities, small businesses and workers bear the weight of its corporate power. The following interview with MacGillis from his home in Baltimore, Maryland, was edited for length and clarity.
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If arts funding is âCOVID relief,â then itâs no surprise that child care is âinfrastructure.â In the Democratsâ lexicon â where abortion is âhealth care,â election reform is âracism,â and social justice is a âpublic worksâ project â the fact that Joe Biden is trying to reimagine another word to fit his agenda is just par for their delusional course. The Left played this same trick on the American people in February, Cameron Hilditch warns, shoe-horning every radical priority under the sun into âcoronavirus response.â Politically, itâs very âclever,â he agrees. Practically, it shouldnât stand a chance.
More Americans are wise to the Leftâs scam now, as evidenced by the massive blowback Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) got for tweeting âPaid leave is infrastructure. Child care is infrastructure. Caregiving is infrastructure.â Conservatives had a field day with the idea
The Wall Between Civilization And Our Innate Savagery Is Weakening
Civilization is difficult.
Civilization is especially difficult if it means not just political stability and material advancement, but also a decent moral order. We’re all born into this world as tiny barbarians. Without care, we will grow to be larger, more dangerous barbarians.
The murder of Mohammad Anwar, an immigrant working as an UberEats driver, allegedly by two teenage girls attempting to carjack him, is a case in point. Following the fatal accident, video footage shows one of the accused girls complaining that her phone was still in the wrecked car. A man was dead or dying next to her, apparently by her hand, and she was focused on retrieving her technological bauble.