5LL #227 - Wealth, Cars, Sickness, Friendship, Bowling
In This House We Prey
Melinda Cooper, The Baffler
If one little-known family office is capable of wiping billions off the balance sheets of six investment banks, how long before the Federal Reserve and Treasury step in to prop up a single family fortune?
Once You See the Truth About Cars, You Can’t Unsee It
Andrew Ross and Julie Livingston, The New York Times
For many low-income and minority Americans, automobiles have been turbo-boosted engines of inequality, immobilizing their owners with debt, increasing their exposure to hostile law enforcement, and in general accelerating the forces that drive apart haves and have-nots.
Why Capitalism Needs Sick People
Malcolm Harris, New York
Sickness is an American growth industry.
From Bowling Alone to Posting Alone
Anton Jäger, Jacobin
Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone chronicled the growing loneliness and isolation of wealthy societies. Twenty years later, the problem is far worse than he could have imagined.
Duckpin Bowling Loses Its Home
Dave McKenna, Defector
Anybody looking for villains in the demise specifically of duckpin need not be so introspective, however. You can find them on Wall Street.
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