Coder. Teacher. Queer. Fighter of technophobia. Believer in queer community. Optimistic curmudgeon. @ITP_NYU er.
Where I Try to Talk MMT to My Friends Who DGAF
Lefties of my vintage will surely be familiar with this bumper sticker, popular in the late 90s. It deserves…
In 2014, the Bank of England (the UK’s version of the Fed) released a report explaining that the way we’re taught to think about banks is wrong. The conventional wisdom goes that banks take in money as deposits and then loan that money out, and…
It was summer, and I’d just moved back to New York after four years in the San Francisco Bay Area. For my first few weeks back, I stayed at a friend’s place while she was out of town, and my primary job during that time was to find a…
We know that to exist within our economic system, people need money. The very existence of money within capitalism, though, relies on its scarcity. A few people hoard lots of it, and in turn, many people have very little of it. Everyone has needs —…
