Economy
You Will Never Make It Under Capitalism: The Hustle Trap, Revisited
I used to do the math in my head at night. Ten men control the wealth of the United States — everyone on the internet says so — so if I just built the right app, cracked the right hustle, put in the right eighteen-hour days, I'd be number eleven. I actually believed that. Not as a joke. As a plan. I want to tell you exactly how that ended, because I think a lot of you reading this are still doing the math I used to do.
Sira Staff · Aug 25 · 6 readers
They Are Stealing From the Poorest People on Earth, and Calling It Development
A shirt sewn in Hawassa sells in an American mall for around seventy dollars. The woman who sewed it took home, that whole month, about twenty-six. Sit with that for a second before you read another word. Twenty-six dollars. Not a day. A month. That gap between what her hands made and what she was paid for making it isn't a glitch in the system. It is the system, working exactly the way it was built to work.
Sira Staff · Aug 22 · 47 readers