on capitalism

In Poland, we have a saying, “when something doesn't make sense, it's probably about money."

Capitalism, he noted, is not something imposed on us by some outside force. It only exists because every day we wake up and continue to produce it. If we woke up one morning and all collectively decided to produce something else, then we wouldn’t have capitalism anymore.

David Graeber • The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an

exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

--John Steinbeck

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“What does it mean to think of revolution not as destroying capitalism, but as ceasing to create capitalism?”

Stop making Capitalism – John Holloway

https://johnholloway.com.mx/2011/07/30/stop-making-capitalism/

via Instapaper

This whole piece is just ::chef's kiss::

Those responsible for the worst treatment of the world and its human occupants continue to do so because we don’t make things hard enough for them: a little hardship and directed hostility toward the rich is long, long overdue. At the same time, though, we know very well why such a mass uprising and tidal shift remains difficult. Those who most fee

Evan Calder Williams • Combined and Uneven Apocalypse

the darker implication of the malaise is the reality that it is all by design. a few hundred years ago certain powers aligned against the people. overloading from birth to the point that it is a luxury, a privilege, to even consider the state of the world. in thinking about all of this i can't help but drown in a kind of survivor's guilt mixed with impostor syndrome— i can(t help but) think about these things when, outside my window, there's someone that's negotiating with themselves on whether to feed themselves now or pay bill later. and somewhere, someone even more educated and in an even more privileged position considers the same for me.

but at some point up that ladder i want to hope someone with some weight will think about the rest of us all the way down and throw a wrench in the system that stacked us in a vertical maze to begin with.

fleet/re: Metaverse; or How can you colonize the intangible?

Companies have been successfully working on this for two decades but when the prospect of "owning" land in the Metaverse surfaced— and was subsequently swallowed up by the few, it became immediately obvious what the playbook was:

You'll own nothing out here, and nothing in there.

It wa

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