"Excessive debt gradually becomes its own tyrant, the past rules exclusively, trampling on the future."
Joe Costello on debt, democracy, and the sad state of our politics.
My friend Joe Costello sent out this short essay on debt and the death of democracy a few days ago. Anything Joe writes is worth reading — and that’s especially true about his work on the politics of technology, which I’ve recommended a couple of times before.
Joe is a firm believer in democracy. And I gotta say, just writing those words feels like a slu…