5LL #40 - Free College, Productivity, Black Socialists, Happiness, Bosses

The Case For Free College
Sparky Abraham, Current Affairs

Is it “regressive”? No, and that’s the wrong question…

Busy Doing Nothing
Megan Marz, The Baffler

Jenny Odell’s search for a better way to resist productivity

Socialist Principles Have Always Been Part of Black American Tradition
Robert R. Raymond, Truthout

Socialism has never been a movement mostly for and by white men. It has a long and rich tradition within Black communities and other communities of color in the U.S., and within feminist organizing.

Could A Green New Deal Make Us Happier People? 
Kate Aronoff, The Intercept

The Green New Deal components that its critics have decried as wasteful add-ons — social housing, a federal job guarantee, universal health care — are anything but.

Bosses Will Be Considered Unthinkable 50 Years From Now
Bhaskar Sunkara, Vox

Workplaces will look totally different in the future.

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