5LL #394: The West, Warehouses, Muskism, Adoption, ESOPs
Ghost Fleet
The Editors, Equator
America’s defeat in the Persian Gulf reveals the world to come.
The Warehouse, in Plain Sight
Charmaine Chua, Places
That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture — of markets, workers, and, now, people detained by immigration agents. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.
Muskism as Fordism
Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff, LPE
If Fordism and post-Fordism were both, in different ways, organized to secure social peace, Muskism is oriented toward social war.
We Need to Tear Down the Adoption Industry
M Ceniza, The Nation
Adoption as practiced in the US is rooted in racism, imperialism, colonialism, and outright abduction. It’s time to do something different.
ESOP Fables
Francis Northwood, The Drift
Profit-sharing and employee ownership sound like a nice deal for workers as long as there are profits to share. The question is what happens when there aren’t.