journal features

billions and billions

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 1999.10.12

A new announcement in the news, today. They reckon there are 6 billion humans on Earth! When I was born, there were fewer than 4 billion.

In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one's work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

—David Graeber