Earn Money Online: the Politics of Microwork and Machines
Understanding how the world of work is changing, and in whose interest, is the key political question of the future. [Read more…] about Earn Money Online: the Politics of Microwork and Machines
It’s Time to Call the Housing Crisis What It Really Is: the Largest Transfer of Wealth in Living Memory
The past few decades have spawned a one-off transfer of wealth that is unlikely to be repeated. While the main beneficiaries of this have been the older generations, eventually this will be passed on to the next generation via inheritance or transfer. The ultimate result is not just a growing intergenerational divide, but an entrenched class divide between those who own property (or have a claim to it), and those who do not. [Read more…] about It’s Time to Call the Housing Crisis What It Really Is: the Largest Transfer of Wealth in Living Memory
True Value of Land
The question is not whether we will run out of physical land (although in a country as small as Malta this is physically possible), but rather what kind of society do we want to be. Do we want to depend on imports? Do we want to do away with agriculture altogether?
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How Neoliberal Capitalism Shaped Tigné Point to Sell the Valletta View
The view of Valletta was commodified—even ‘weaponised’—to make the Tigné Point apartments a desirable prospect for a few wealthy residents able to buy it.
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