Don’t forget you can’t repair what you own either
It’s not really that the outlook changed though, capitalism will simply go where money is and say whatever will generate more of it.
This is backwards. Capitalism creates where the money is. It creates problems then sells the solution.
Llms are a great example of problems looking for solutions.
No. Its the idea that value comes from ownership.
Money is just a form of violence they use to control us. Ownership, agreement that you own, akin to w feudal title, is the real currency.
It can still mean freedom. They’re just taking the freedom away from us.
quietly
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Folks go on about how this is some kind of New Capitalism, when we’ve had mortgage notes and utility bills and credit card statements going back to generations.
Before you get bucolic about The Way Things We’re, really helps to recognize how these modern tools for control are in direct response to modern attempts at libration.
From Open Source software to community housing and property to gender change, you’re breaking out of the strict forms of control already cemented on prior generations.
Real libration isn’t just going back to 1980s home ownership and salary labor and nuclear families. We need to be more radical. Stop adhering to the laws and the norms that bound up your parent’s generation. That’s the only way you get out from under the cage being dropped on modern Trad-obsessed liberals and conservatives.
I’m all for economically returning to the before times where billionaires were taxed a massive percent, but keeping our societal progress of protecting human rights. I dont want to go back to the 50s-90s for the societal ways, but the economic ways, you bet.
billionaires were taxed a massive percent
This gets overstated. We had a high income tax, but we’ve only briefly had a high capital gains tax - between 1969–1977 - when it got into the 50% range instead of the more historic 15-25% range.
Billionaires only very briefly saw anything resembling “high taxes” in the US. Even then, carve outs and exclusions for foreign incomes allowed them to largely ignore the IRS during this time.
I dont want to go back to the 50s-90s for the societal ways, but the economic ways, you bet.
Glances at economic race relations in 1970
Mighty White of you to say that
Never take life advice from corporations. Ownership is freedom that’s why they aspire to own everything.
Stop paying them.
Before that you also had planned obsolescence, capitalism never wanted non capital owners to own anything
🎵 freedom isn’t free, it costs folks like you and me 🎵
