Capitalism
by Prashanth Narayan and · updated 2mo ago
Capitalism
- The unabated “creative destruction” of one kind of capital after another has only further increased the wealth of a few and done nothing to emancipate the overall collective creative spirit, which has remained stagnant. Today, almost every artistic effort inevitably (perhaps unknowingly) reinscribes the values of the ruling capitalist class.
from Cultural Dopes by GD Dess
Faith Hahn added 10mo ago
- Being an artist within an economic system that favors private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, a price system, and competitive markets belittles my practice into a hobby. I am an amateur with no artist statement, thesis show, or MFA. The money I invest in creating art is a temporary loan to myself that I feel pressured to repay quickly b... See more
from A Soft Manifesto by Cortney Cassidy
sari added 1y ago
While serving a life sentence in jail, Kaczynski wrote a little-known sequel to his manifesto, entitled “Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How”. In it he outlines his belief that all technologically advanced civilizations become trapped in fatal games before they learn to colonize space. This happens because industry is driven by competition, and compe
... See morefrom Why Everything Is Becoming a Game by Gurwinder
simon added 2mo ago
- The Antitrust Division will hopefully respond with “No, your search engine was awesome, but it’s increasingly ad-filled crap. You’re too powerful, you’re too lazy, and America needs some real competition.”
from The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start by Matt Stoller
Faith Hahn added 9mo ago
- But the Cigna review system that blocked van Terheyden’s claim bypasses those steps. Medical directors do not see any patient records or put their medical judgment to use, said former company employees familiar with the system. Instead, a computer does the work. A Cigna algorithm flags mismatches between diagnoses and what the company considers acc... See more
from How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them by Patrick Rucker
Faith Hahn added 10mo ago
- Who gets to determine the future is important!
If corporations, billionaires, and oil tycoons are the ones at the forefront of envisioning and building a new future – which are exactly the same actors that led to today’s polycrisis – then something is terribly wrong!from Unframing the Future by Thomas Klaffke
simon added 5mo ago
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” wrote the literary critic Fredric Jameson. One of the hardest elements to imagine is what capitalism has done to our perception of time via clocks. It now seems embedded into our very psychology to view time as a commodity that can be spent or wasted.
from The Tyranny Of Time by noemamag.com
simon added 4mo ago
- As a society, we are so fully invested in capitalism, competition and algorithms that it’s almost impossible to pull ourselves out of the cycle to see a bigger pattern, which is that we have entire economies built upon our misery.
from The enshittification of dating apps
Tara McMullin added 2mo ago
- Dreaming, fantasy, imagination, and any spiritual endeavour outside of the demands of the Market have been civilized out of you and your ancestors over the last three hundred years, so much so that we've forgotten these things can be anything more than personal leisure activities.
That is, the imaginal has been disciplined out of most of the world, ... See morefrom The Imaginal World — RITONA // A Beautiful Resistance by Rhyd Wildermuth
Stuart Evans added 10mo ago