When everything’s a commodity, even human suffering can be an economic boon.

I disliked those who complained about it more than I disliked those who were actively making it toxic. Whatever toxicity there might have been, I saw as an obstacle that I could overcome, and if others could not do the same, then the fault was theirs.

In a capitalist system, money is drawn toward the tech industry in the hopes of making a return. Some of this may be driven by altruistic motivations, out of a genuine belief that the tech industry is the best vehicle for creating a better world, but there’s always an asterisk to the better world being created: a world where the investors make a

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

Companies with excess profits accrued through rent-seeking should be considered targets for nationalisation. Failing that, they should have to lower prices, increase R&D spending, and/or raise wages; the rest could be taxed away. And a strict wealth tax would also be useful given that those with a high amount of savings can draw passive income

Failure is what allowed me to realise the folly of the amorphous goal I’d been chasing all this time.

Ultimately, the aim of reclaiming work from capital is to create a radically different vision of work. Rather than the current system that governs through excess financial incentives for a select few and coercion for everybody else, work could be reformulated as a more democratic endeavour whereby we collectively create the things we want in

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

Before this, I hadn’t realised that websites were something that I could make.