# ALT EFF's Substack

If you are to read something on Substack today, let it be this.

And think. Stay with your thoughts after you read this. Don’t let capitalism overstimulate you and throw you off the boat of introspection.

Your SIP might be funding extraction!

“So if you _don’t_ invest, you’re still losing your money’s value.

Great.

So now the options are:

- Lose money slowly

Read the full piece on the dilemmas around spending, investing, and making money in a collapsing world.

The Global South is the back kitchen, sweating through the heat, turning out dish after dish at low cost, often on exploited labour, while the Global North sits out front, elegantly waiting, knives and forks in hand, ready to carve into the profits. The outcome is predictable. Nations produce what is most profitable, not what is most necessary. Citizens, ecosystems, entire bioregions come second.

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a lot of what we're calling a mental health crisis is an economic crisis showing up in the body. anxiety, depression, addiction, disordered eating — the rates have climbed in near-lockstep with housing costs, healthcare costs, and wage stagnation.

that doesn't make these problems any less real. it means we've built an entire medical industry to treat symptoms produced by conditions we refuse to change.

Great piece on one of the biggest decisions in romance.

you’re horizontal, couch-bound, hoping to spice up your life and decide to down a tub of Dutch chocolate ice cream. Maybe you’re riding the high from ‘Bridgerton’ or revisiting Lena Dunham’s ‘Girls.’ Either way, you’re craving drama or at least, a hint of hope, so you download Hinge.