Tag: Economy
Two of Vladimir Putin’s most high-profile critics have joined forces and announced plans for large-scale anti-Putin protests in Moscow on March 1st. Activist and opposition leader Alexei Navalny, currently under house arrest, announced the protest online this week when he published his letter to the government requesting permission for the march. The letter is cosigned […]
Residents in New York’s Hudson Valley are at odds with the state government over the possibility of widening the existing power corridor that already rips through the bucolic landscape. New York’s Public Service Commission two years ago “worried about bottlenecks in the delivery of electricity from upstate generators to New York City and other downstate […]
Artist Austin Houldsworth‘s new project Walden Note imagines a currency for a utopian society that doesn’t need currency. In 1942, behavioral psychologist B. F. Skinner published the utopian novel Walden Two (1942) which imagines a leaderless society that shares work, family and resources. Members are “conditioned to be productive, creative and happy.” They never say “thank you,” never get paid […]
Forget Monopoly. That’s why we’re all fucked. Unlike Monopoly, the goal of Commonopoly is not the exhaustion, through monopolization, of a virtual stock of goods, but rather the expansion and preservation of a self-propelling sustainable system of recycling, production and distribution. Commonopoly is a project from Big Hope: Miklós Erhardt, Dominic Hislop, Elske Rosenfeld. They refer to […]
This ingenious infographic, created for the New Yorker by designer Larry Buchanan, illustrates New York City’s wealth disparities by plotting median household income against every subway stop in the city. Each train line is displayed individually, making it very easy to see the close relationship between geography and money. Witness the immense dropoff between Grand Street and […]
