5LL #153 - Prices, Oil, Data, New York City, Elites

That $5 Uber Ride, $8 Burrito, and the Brutal Costs of "Cheap"
Jacob Silverman, The New Republic
Wage increases and other rising expenses are being “passed on” to the consumer, we’re told. But we’re looking in all the wrong places for the true costs of how we live.
It's Time to Nationalize Shell. Private Oil Companies Are No Longer Fit for Purpose.
Johanna Bozuwa and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, The Guardian
Failing, heavily subsidized private oil companies enjoy the profits of oil extraction while the rest of us pay in tax dollars, human rights abuses, and an unlivable climate.
Data Relations
Salomé Viljoen, Logic
What’s wrong with our digital world? What would make it right?
New York City and the Path to Neoliberalism in the 1970s
Benjamin Holtzman, OUPblog
While at mid-century, city government maintained the most robust social democratic program in the country, by the late twentieth century, much of this program had been curtailed and the private sector and market had gained a far greater role in providing services previously maintained by government.
Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class
Doug Henwood, Jacobin
For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.
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