korrents

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Markets have an incentive to favor the most nameable, easily depicted aspects of an identity group over its fuller complexity.

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simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

capitalism Markets as a system rather than a market: what it is for, what it costs, and what people mean when they say they are retiring from it.

Incentives

What Haley Nahman actually said

  1. Haley Nahman Writer living in Brooklyn and former Man Repeller features director
    The market has an incentive to privilege aspects of womanhood that can be named, depicted, and immediately recognized.

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