Debt Collective co-founder Astra Taylor's new book explores why people feel so insecure these days, regardless of their economic standing.
Debt Collective co-founder Astra Taylor's new book explores why we all feel so insecure these days, regardless of our economic standing.
"Even people who crawl their way to the middle class or upper middle class feel like they can never get a break or rest," Taylor said.," she tells a story set in the Brooklyn café where her sister worked until recently. On a quiet day, one of the baristas was talking with a regular customer, a specialist in medieval history, when her phone rang. It was her boss. He ordered the barista to stop chatting with the customer.
The security cameras were there, at least in part, to make the workers feel insecure about holding on to their jobs, Taylor writes. "Even when all they wanted to do was show a bit of kindness and community to a local eccentric, the workers were perpetually worried about being fired."Taylor doesn't end the story there. She also tries to understand what might be propelling the boss of the café to be so vigilant in the first place.
"We can see the degree to which unnecessary suffering is widespread even among those who appear to be 'winning' according to the logic of the capitalist game," Taylor writes., a union for debtors, which has become among the most influential groups pushing for student loan forgiveness. Her latest book began as, a series of talks aired by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Former speakers include the author Margaret Atwood and linguist Noam Chomsky.
AN: I'm really glad to hear he's OK. Whenever I do a story about people getting debt forgiveness, I'll get comments from people who are upset or angry that others got that relief. Why do you think this is?I love that question, and it's kind of what motivated this book. I was wondering why there is this constant sense of scarcity. There's something about the current political and economic climate that just makes people have this scarcity mindset.
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