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“There is no logic to sadness when it comes to the greater good. Sadly, individual success and individual joy sells, like how people respond emotionally to stories of individual loss, grief and so on but don't always respond to actual figures and facts. That is how capitalism works and sustains, and how empathy was monetized by neoliberalism, and the reason why it got lost in conservative nationalism.”

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Book:Care Where No One Does: A Grassroots-style Guide to Progressive Cultural Production, Anticipating Neoliberal to National Conservative Times
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