- Mar 2025
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willruddick.substack.com willruddick.substack.com
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seed commitment pools
for - definition - seed commitment pool - structural inequality - escaping
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legal freedom is not the same as economic autonomy. After slavery, formerly enslaved communities were still trapped—by debt peonage, sharecropping, economic exclusion, and lack of land and resources. Money alone at the time couldn’t buy them trust, care, or independence from systems designed to keep them dependent.
for - quote - structural inequality - example - structural inequality
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- May 2024
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4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com 4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com
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open source paradigms, with its copyleft licensing scheme
for - adjacency - open source - copyleft - Achilles Heel - unpaid workers - predatory capitalism
adjacency - between - open source - copyleft - Achilles Heel - predatory capitalism - unpaid workers - adjacency statement - The Achilles Heel of the open source copyleft system is that it allows everyone to participate. Everyone can look at the innovation, including corporate raiders in it for their own self-interest. - This enables predatory capitalism. The well-capitalized corporations take the best open source ideas and integrate them into their own private systems. With their abundant capitalization, they can maintain the existent structural inequality - Meanwhile, most open source software is maintained by underpaid programmers
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- Feb 2024
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www.edweek.org www.edweek.org
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Summary - At the heart of the debate, - which is a major driver for the political polarization in politics around the globe, - especially in the United States between - liberals and - conservatives - is structural inequality inherited by colonialism centuries earlier - and how to deal with it today.
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Critical race theory emerged out of postmodernist thought, which tends to be skeptical of the idea of universal values, objective knowledge, individual merit, Enlightenment rationalism, and liberalism—tenets that conservatives tend to hold dear.
for - Critical race theory - key insight
key insight - The following passage gets to the heart of the matter: - (see below)
All these different ideas grow out of longstanding, tenacious intellectual debates.
Critical race theory emerged out of postmodernist thought, - which tends to be skeptical of the idea of - universal values, - objective knowledge, - individual merit, - Enlightenment rationalism, and - liberalism - tenets that conservatives tend to hold dear.
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- Oct 2021
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www.apmreports.org www.apmreports.org
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"The story of the American college is largely the story of the rise of the slave economy in the Atlantic world," says Craig Steven Wilder, a historian at MIT and author of "Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities."
In this way, the past seeps into the present. This is a literal example of the legacy of structural inequality.
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- Sep 2020
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www.imperial.ac.uk www.imperial.ac.uk
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Two intersecting pandemics. (n.d.). Retrieved 1 September 2020, from https://www.imperial.ac.uk/stories/intersecting-pandemics
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- Jul 2020
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Goldstein, A., policy, closeAmy G. covering health-care, politics, other social policy issuesEmailEmailBioBioFollowFollowEmily G. closeEmily G. analyst at T. W. P. specializing in public opinion about, elections, & policy.EmailEmailBioBioFollowFollow, public. (n.d.). Almost one-third of black Americans know someone who died of covid-19, survey shows. Washington Post. Retrieved 26 June 2020, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/almost-one-third-of-black-americans-know-someone-who-died-of-covid-19-survey-shows/2020/06/25/3ec1d4b2-b563-11ea-aca5-ebb63d27e1ff_story.html
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