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If you can't read a good book without stopping every few pages to tweet about it, you might be what we call Extremely Online. You unabashedly distinguish between real life and digital life by using phrases like IRL versus URL, you disabled the Screen Time app on your iPhone because you don't need that kind of judgement. Maybe you're so online that it's your job to write about social media, and even when you're not working, you're still thinking about the vice grip that Meta has on your life. Okay, that last one hit a bit too close to home.
How Amazon Exploited a Weakened America
The immense power of Jeff Bezos’s empire reveals a country that has been falling apart for quite some time.
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During the Covid-19 pandemic, one in four Americans has struggled to pay their bills, and as of mid-January, unemployment claims surpassed those of the Great Recession for the forty-third straight week. As of February, more than 24 million people reported that their households sometimes didn’t have enough to eat. Many lower-income Americans continued to report for in-person jobs without proper protective equipment in dangerously crowded environments like meatpacking plants, warehouses, and hospitals.