Publicly traded corporations are the true Terminators, meat-and-machine hybrids, soulless AIs driven by algorithms to conquer the world, grinding us all to dust, extracting every resource, squeezing the last drop of blood from the last stone, driven by their directive to do just one thing: maximize shareholder profits.
We have…
There's another: Young people don't realize or can't believe that they're going to be chewed up, spit out, and replaced.
No, the question becomes, do you want to run the race at all? Why out-compete when you can out-cooperate?
Finding ourselves on what looks to be a runaway train doomed to fly off the rails, we should get off at the next stop while we can still get off at…
Neoliberalism happened. Corporate capitalism is killing us all.
I didn't blame anything on the Reagan. My point was that the Democratic Party has gone conservative and is intent on defending the established Neoliberal Order. The Republicans, meanwhile, have gone off the deep end, plunging headlong into Christian Nationalist extremism.
Every society has people who punch down. In America, we tend to call them “bullies,” and what they do to those weaker than them “bullying.” Koreans describe certain forms of bullying using the word “gapjil (갑질).”
Korean contracts usually specify two parties, Party A and Party B, and sometimes a…
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the…
For over a quarter of a century now, I have been a freelance translator, spending my life writing other people’s words.
Korean-English translation has taken up the greater part of my time every day of every month of every year since early 1993.
Sometimes, the Korean expressions I’ve moved into…
Exvangelical skeptic, Korean-English translator (http://www.korean-english.com), stressed-out freelancer, wandering wonderer, human in search of meaning
