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I don't have an anti-Amazon agenda to push, even though they deserve criticism. However, we can't ignore the fact that corporations and the rights of workers are both economic and political at once. This whole article is about a collective labor action. Is this journalism not an example of a political battle that most of us, as workers, are forced to confront? Why not just delete the entire post?

The profitable manufacture of fear and justification of government overreach has been a reliable product and goal of sensationalist journalism for a very long time. The Spanish-American War is a prime example.

If anything, this crisis has drawn visible lines between those with unwavering trust in mass media and those without. Those who have good reasons to distrust authority have been the least likely to comply with orders and recommendations from both government agencies and mass media outlets. On the other hand, those who benefit from the current power structure have taken to their advice with great enthusiasm.

Between these groups are those like yourself who try to sift through the sensationalism for good information. Even then, international authorities like WHO have revealed clear political bias in regards to issues like Taiwanese independence. Who can we trust?

Enlightening article. I find his works take on a new context in the light of the recent rise of Korean art in American pop culture.

The Anglo world condoned Japanese imperialism in Korea and later brought its own influences to Korean culture during the Korean War. This war is as often overlooked and relegated to obscurity as the article's subject himself, but the blood spilt must shine through the heart of America in an inevitable fashion.

The rise of Korean film and pop music in American consciousness is a reflection of the cultural imperialism of the West. This is illustrated in Bong Joon Ho's "The Host" (2006) moments before k-pop and Korean film became so massively popular in America.

Somewhat a reflection of these novels, the film's portrayal of Americans in Korea is not all black and white. The opening scene shows an Anglo American officer commanding a local Korean man to dump toxic formaldehyde into the Han River, leading to the rise of a monster and a mysterious infectious pandemic (sound familiar?). Although the pandemic is revealed to be an American imperial hoax to seize power and quarantine the population, a local Anglo American GI is featured as a hero who fights alongside the protagonist against the monster. A toxic gas bioweapon called Agent Yellow is released in a failed attempt to defeat the monster, even though the gas is harmful to the local population. This may be a commentary on the American use of bioweapons in Vietnam against the cultural threat to American world hegemony (communism).

To summarize this chaotic chain of themes, perhaps as chaotic as "East Goes West", the lasting struggle of asserting a personal and cultural identity in America is very relevant today. What does it take for a man or woman to rise above prejudice and establish themselves as a human being and valued member of society? Why should this struggle exist? Why should Americans be forced to engage with it? It is evidence of evil. The absurdity and irrationality of American racism is very prevalent in its strange and wavering treatment of Asian Americans. I can relate with Kang, not only in his love for America, but also in his frustrations with its politically motivated prejudice.

I work as a writer and love the concept, but the size of the screen is the one major drawback. Both the commercialized version ($550!) and the hacker version have tiny screens that do not compare to a laptop with a word processor or a typewriter with standard size paper.

If they scaled the screen size up, I would definitely consider this for professional use. Otherwise, it seems kind of inconvenient compared to the traditional methods.

The most attractive features are the e-ink screen, the long lasting battery, and the minimal design. Writing without getting distracted is more a matter of personal discipline than advanced technology. If anything, having internet access while writing is very convenient for research.

As TOGoS mentioned, capitalism currently dominates the world. Although it seems like his comment has been hidden, even though he is telling the truth. I expected my own comment to be voted down as it criticizes capitalism.

The majority of human history takes place in the mode of production of the hunter-gatherer society. This is before the agricultural revolution and the advent of agricultural civilization.

Economists describe this as early communism. The definition of this model is based in large part on the study of the Iroquois Confederacy. This, along with evolutionary models of food sharing, highlight a meat sharing system that is enforced communally. There is personal property, but private ownership of land and essential resources is nonexistent. The community owns the means of production as well as essential resources, and they dictate their distribution by need and not by profit.

In modern society, this would manifest as collective ownership of the means of production by the working class. The means of production are capital that is used to produce goods. Land, water, corporations, factories, etc. As workers exist worldwide, collective ownership would take the form of a global socialist state owned by the workers. This is the purpose of the world revolution.

As communities become organized around sustainability using vast amounts of capital created by workers under capitalism, the global state becomes redundant. At this stage, the economic structure returns to its original state, which is communism.

It's not a ideological debate, calling someone Marxist is as redundant as calling a physicist a Newtonian or a mathematician a Pythagorean. Capitalism itself as we know it was defined by that era of economic science. Of course we should remain skeptical and critical, as many ideas from that era turned out to be wrong. What's difficult is constantly working against decades of Cold War era propaganda and disinformation.

The primary American defense against the words socialism or communism is the idea that society is somehow built around personal character flaws and not laws of economic and political science. The capitalist is not inherently greedy, he simply follows the forces of economics. Communism is not some "ideal society" that works on paper but is undermined by human greed. It describes the majority of human history, and it requires a world revolution to exist again. Any nation that describes itself as "socialist" yet participates in the global economy is simply capitalist and masquerading as something else.

Collective action through widespread unity and organization. In other words, revolution. This method has successfully evolved society time and time again.

As someone who has experienced hunger and malnutrition, it is entirely a product of capitalism and not a specific detail in the food production chain.

Our economic system is highly inefficient, and waste is a necessary part of maintaining profitable prices. This includes starvation, homelessness, and unemployment. Scarcity must be maintained.

Malnutrition, or simply hunger in more plain terms, is prevalent across every type of community in the US and the world. The ghettos of cities, trailer parks and economically depressed rural areas, dilapidated suburbs, and the often overlooked Native land reservations.

Just to get an idea of the inordinate balance of resources, consider that there are 552,830 homeless people in the US as of 2018 and 17,019,726 vacant homes. Billionaires hoard absolutely massive amounts of value generated by workers and do nothing with it or just let it sit in their portfolios.

This mode of production is obscenely inefficient and long due for an overhaul.