Tag: postcapitalism
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Identifying true value; reflections on cryptocurrency and a direction for 2023
Not sure what happened there, but somehow we’re ploughing through the new year, I’m on the cusp of returning to work and I’ve not managed to post anything on this blog for far too long. Which I know is inexcusable. However, by way of an excuse…I’m embroiled in a house-hunt. If you’ve been there, you’ll…
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The paradox of sustainable online shopping
It hit in the greengrocer’s this week. The first wave of festive nostalgia, Wham’s Last Christmas, unmistakeable even on a little shop radio. Though, increasingly I’m finding the jingle-bell memories of past Christmases are tempered with a bit of ethical reflection. The climate emergency, the cost of living crisis, imminent recession…there are so many reasons…
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Forget Twitter, what do we really want?
I’m writing this in quasi-quarantine, thanks to a visit from what we are assuming is chicken pox. It’s been a bit like a return to the lockdown days, only we’ve doubled our number of children and one of them seems to have been prematurely promoted into a leadership role. Even those of us who’ve spent…
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Post-capitalism: part 2 of potentially very many
This isn’t the post I was going to write this week. Inspired by a reasonably gruelling spin around the Stratford Westfield centre for one pair of kids’ shoes, I had something sort-of lined up on whether shopping online, especially second-hand, is as environmentally conscious as we might dream it to be. I’ll return to it…
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