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By ~LS~ On May 12, 2012 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Blogging, Capitalism, Consumption, Money, Pets, Voxygen

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By ~LS~ On May 8, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Capitalism and tagged Tagged With: Baton Rouge, Capitalism, Consumption, Goals, Money, Politics

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Self-storage

By ~LS~ On May 2, 2012 · Add Comment · In Politics, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Money, Politics

Usually when I pass the self-storage places in the strip malls as I drive to work, I ignore them. They are part of the mundane aspects of my daily life that blend in with the roadside trivia like payday loan shops, Payless shoes, the Mall, and Office Depot, McDonalds, the homeless panhandler, the gas station, and people waiting for the bus. None of these things stand out until I need them or they disrupt me. Selective perception, and all.

Lately I’ve observed the large amount of self-storage places all around me. I started tracking them during my trip to New York City, where they seemed out of place because the city has no strip malls. Given that space is a premium in the city, they make more sense there than in suburbia.

With occupy Wall Street dominating the discursive and political field, the need for somewhere to store our [...]

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The hidden cost of graduate school

By ~LS~ On July 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Academentia, Capitalism, Generations, I have to work?, Random Musings and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Money, Teaching, Work Sucks

I just paid my student loan a couple of days ago, which basically means I hit a button on the loan website and depleted my financial resources for another month. In the moment, I started to reflect on the debilitating costs of graduate school, costs which most people don’t consider even later in their lives after they’ve graduated. Most academics that I know have a deep sense of nostalgia for their days of poverty, where living on ramen, cheap beer, and the company of good friends in the same boat got them through until the next measly TA paycheck. They also have a healthy resentment for how paying student loans back takes money directly from their pockets in the present. This is all at the level of obviousness. But the unacknowledged costs add up to a substantial amount of cash, yet no one ever includes them in any accounting. When [...]

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Facebook feed changes and you

By ~LS~ On November 12, 2009 · 3 Comments · In The Web and tagged Tagged With: Capitalism, Consumption, Facebook, Interface Value, Money

Confused about the difference between news feed and live feed on Facebook? Me too. The whole new new Facebook annoyed and confused me. I finally googled it to see wtf was going on. What I learned was interesting.

The biggest change on Facebook felt like the whole live and news feed thing. That was the most obvious one. We all quickly figured out how to drag our status feed to the top of the links menu on the left. That was supposed to restore the old Facebook, but it didn’t since all the feeds are now split into status, links, pages, etc., plus the new Live Feed and News Feed. So, here’s the difference between all the feeds, which is obvious if you think about it:

Live Feed: A feed of everything in Facebook. In addition to status updates, this includes friends’ quiz results, Mob Wars and Farmville announcements, [...]

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Americans Deeper in Debt

By ~LS~ On July 22, 2008 · 1 Comment · In Politics and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Money

My relationship with money is very strange. I’m constantly comparing myself to other people to see how I’m doing financially and I’m never satisfied with my status. I live in a shoebox of a little house, I drive a low end car, most of my “stuff” is low end (my computer, my phones, my mp3 player, my coffee, my groceries, etc.). I’m never happy. I always marvel at how other people can afford SUVs and private school tuition. According to all the stats I’ve read, we are at the upper end of income in Baton Rouge. I know I don’t live in an exceptionally rich part of town, but I look at my neighbors’ yards, cars, houses, and I feel inadequate. I recall bell hooks, when writing about her BMW (maybe it was in Where We Stand: Class Matters), saying something about feeling this way as a child of poverty [...]

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