#economicmaterialism — Public Fediverse posts
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Cory Doctorow: "Not only is the personal net worth of the executives who’ve been compensated in stock coupled with that share price, but also your shares can be used to buy other companies if you’re growing. If you’re not, you’ve got to use money, which is hard to get, whereas you get shares by typing zeros into a spreadsheet. You don’t need Charlize Theron in a bathtub explaining this to you, right? This is actually relative to CDOs and the other kind of exotic finance grifts we’ve had.
“The left, by failing to talk about the material basis for bubbles, for growth narratives, and by falling back to this lazy, eternal ‘growth is the ideology of a tumor’ talk. has really miseducated people who are listening with half an ear.”
This one’s pretty straightforward. Honestly, I think this book is about being a better critic — in some ways it’s criticism of the criticism. The left, by failing to talk about the material basis for bubbles, for growth narratives, and by falling back to this lazy, eternal “growth is the ideology of a tumor” talk. has really miseducated people who are listening with half an ear. So a lot of people think bubbles are an ideological thing, instead of a material thing with reasons and motives that are totally rational — and that we can short-circuit.
By trying to make people better critics, both on these labor questions, but also these economic questions, I’m hoping that we can attack the bubble frontally and do something about it, instead of doing what we’ve done with creative labor fights for 40 years, which is finding another way to make creative workers feel angry at their audiences for consuming their work the wrong way while they get poorer."
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #Capitalism #EconomicMaterialism #Automation
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"Imagine" is a song by the English musician #JohnLennon from his 1971 album of the same name. The lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world of peace, beginning with living without #religion and its concepts, without #economicMaterialism, and without borders separating nations. Shortly before #hisDeath, Lennon said that much of the song's lyrics and content came from his wife, #YokoOno, and in 2017, she received a co-writing credit. Lennon.
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"Imagine" is a song by the English musician #JohnLennon from his 1971 album of the same name. The lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world of peace, beginning with living without #religion and its concepts, without #economicMaterialism, and without borders separating nations. Shortly before #hisDeath, Lennon said that much of the song's lyrics and content came from his wife, #YokoOno, and in 2017, she received a co-writing credit. Lennon.
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"Imagine" is a song by the English musician #JohnLennon from his 1971 album of the same name. The best-selling single of his solo career, the lyrics encourage listeners to imagine a world of peace, beginning with living without #religion and its concepts, without #economicMaterialism, and without borders separating nations. Shortly before #hisDeath, Lennon said that much of the song's lyrics and content came from his wife, #YokoOno, and in 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts0XSyWpMnU