Oaxaca Google Maps and common sense conspire on Mexican highways to eliminate your choices when the signs driving to Mexico City or Puebla or Oaxaca say either Cuota or Libre, essentially toll road or free road, especially when in this case “libre” means an extra thirty to sixty minutes on the road, if you are …
Tag: neoliberalism
Philanthropy’s Desertion: You Just Can’t Count on the Rich
New Orleans As Lilliputians living in the land of the giant rich 1%, it is hard to avoid the heavy helpings of bad news coming in daily about how their habits and highly selective generosity imperils us everywhere, especially because we also live in a world dominated by neo-liberalism that has too often ceded the …
The New Economy, Older and Part-time Workers, and Fulltime Exploitation
Missoula With the truck brought to the curb with transmission problems, I found myself in this small, university-based town for the weekend. Looking for a guy who knew mechanics, I walked through a Saturday farmers’ market near the river that was jumping with young families and children with strollers abounding and smartphones crushed to their …