More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“One of the main things Marx noticed about capitalism,” she writes, “is that it really encourages people to have relationships with things instead of with other people.”
But money is not to blame for this, Piff suggests. What’s to blame is the comfort that a higher class status affords—the independence, the insularity, the security, the illusion of not needing other people.
A game can be played with these cards, supposedly, but none of the kids understand the rules. Their end is accumulation—collecting cards for a game they don’t know how to play.
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things.
“YOU’RE BORN NAKED AND THE REST IS DRAG.” We’re all performing, he wants us to know, but some of us are following the script more closely
than others, and some of us have been given easier parts. Easier parts with better
pay.
This highlight has been truncated due to consecutive passage length restrictions.
Maybe what’s news is that now we’re calling this domination, when we used to just call it marriage.
“Daily meaning as well as daily bread,” Terkel writes, is what people are looking for in work, “a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.”
Safety, or litigation really, is what razed the playgrounds of my childhood. But statistics reveal that just as many children get injured on playgrounds now as they did back then. Safer playgrounds aren’t actually safer.
But are the injuries smaller? Whats the average seriousness of injury now vs then
I once met a woman, an heiress to a cemetery fortune, who kept a piece of china from the Titanic in a glass cabinet. It seemed like a strange artifact to display. That woman was a flutist who performed all over the world, her music financed by real estate for the dead.
