Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains – and souls – need but that it’s easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and recommend just three links every week that you absolutely must see.
No fluff, no fuss, just three exceptional reads.
Here are this week’s recommendations:
The Plan is Working: Rishi Sunak Races Up the Rich List as Homelessness Soars (Adam Bienkov / Byline Times)
The Prime Minister and his wife’s personal wealth rose to £651 million amid the biggest fall in living standards for British people since records began.
The Sunak family’s surging wealth comes as new analysis by the Financial Times reveals that the UK has become the homelessness capital of the world, with the number of people without homes rising rapidly, well beyond any other developed nation in the world.
The analysis follows the Government’s attempts to pass a new law containing a provision to allow rough sleepers to be criminalised for the crime of having a bad odour.
I Went Undercover as a Secret OnlyFans Chatter. It Wasn’t Pretty (Brendan I. Koerner / Wired)
Your online influencer girlfriend is actually a rotating cast of low-wage workers. I became one of them.
The existence of professional OnlyFans chatters wouldn’t have surprised me so much if I’d given just a few moments’ thought to the mathematical realities of the platform. OnlyFans has thrived by promising its reported 190 million users that they can have direct access to an estimated 2.1 million creators. It’s impossible for even a modestly popular creator to cope with the avalanche of messages they receive each day. The $5.6 billion industry has solved this logistical conundrum by entrusting its chat duties to a hidden proletariat, a mass of freelancers who sustain the illusion that OnlyFans’ creators are always eager to engage—sexually and otherwise—with paying customers.
Why Israel is in deep trouble (John Mearsheimer, Tom Switzer / Centre for Independent Studies)
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