How My Personal Experience with Email Reveals the Disease of Late-Stage Capitalism

Markus Scorelius

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4 min readFeb 27

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I receive 306.8 spam emails per day.

Pony Express 100th anniversary commemorative issue of 1960

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Pony Exoress 80th Anniversay issue of 1940.

Markus Scorelius

Written by Markus Scorelius

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Mark is an avid reader, passionate and curious researcher on various topics. Writer of Creative Fiction and Thoughtful borderline non-fiction.

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