That means universal healthcare. It means better funded primary and secondary education and tuition-free post-secondary education, with courses geared towards human flourishing rather than merely meeting the skills needed by existing corporations. It means public banking, along with higher wages and lower costs of basic goods to reduce the need for

This is the natural ideology generated by any hierarchical system: those on top are always led to believe that the system is fair and that they’re on top because they deserve it. After all, the entire system is devised to ensure their buy-in, and to silence the voices of those who are not on top.

Advertising is a key component of capital’s control over culture. When corporations add their names to sports arenas, or embed their commercials as YouTube pre-roll, or pay for product placement in television shows, it’s an attempt to ensure that capital is inseparable from any sort of social or cultural space.20 You’re not supposed to enjoy anythi

People would work for companies on a project-by-project basis, then would go back to the hiring hall for the next project. One beneficial cultural effect would be to reaffirm that workers’ loyalty should be to their class, rather than to their employer.

You personally refuse to work for a company that collaborates with ICE? They’ll still be able to recruit employees who either don’t understand the moral considerations or who don’t care, and the products will still get built.

They don’t want to consider the possibility that the critics understand exactly what they’re doing and just know that it won’t be in everyone’s interest. They don’t want to acknowledge the myopia that comes from their class position, making them an unreliable narrator of the efficacy of the system or the utility of their own role within it. They ce

Those who will rally in defence of the status quo will say that this is the best we can do. They’ll argue that the system works fine and that major changes might actually make things worse. But that seems eerily similar to what large companies always say right before they get disrupted.

There are no numbers on how many people who would have preferred to stay here have been priced out.

In an atmosphere where capital is powerful and labour is weak, all workers are vulnerable, even if some are currently more vulnerable than others.