#latecapitalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #latecapitalism, aggregated by home.social.
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Die aktuelle Schwemme an generativer #KI ist kein Fortschritt, sondern ein Rückschritt für das menschliche Schaffen. Sie lässt unsere Kreativität und Qualität regelrecht verkümmern.
Statt Werkzeuge zu bauen, die uns unterstützen, bauen wir Maschinen, die den menschlichen Aufwand entwerten, die Menschlichkeit hinter Algorithmen verstecken und die letztendlich nur wenigen Überreichen helfen.
#GenerativeKI #AIslop #KI #Kreativität #KIHype #AIHype #Menschlichkeit #GenAI #Tech #BigTech #TechOligarchs #LateCapitalism
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CEO of International Energy Agency says Trump's Iran war has changed the fossil fuel industry for ever. Countries will no longer trust fossil fuels, and so will diversify.
(Meanwhile, Canadian politicians are asleep at the wheel)
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“Passenger rail is being remade as a luxury lifestyle product—suggesting the problem isn’t trains, but the indignity of using them when they are so badly run.”
https://dissentmagazine.org/article/the-heaven-of-train-travel/
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Is this how the world ends? Why it is important to think of the worst plausible scenarios
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¿Es así como acaba el mundo? Por qué es importante pensar en los peores escenarios posibles. -
Tired of all these beet men coming to my door trying to sell me crates of beets and then just giving up on it and leaving several goddamn crate of beets in front of my door next to all the ones the previous salesmen like I DIDN'T WANT YOUR DAMN BEETS WHY THE FUCK DID YOU GIVE ME THESE BEETS I DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE ELSE TO PUT THEM :neoraccoon_scream_angry: :neoraccoon_scream_angry: :neoraccoon_scream_angry:
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I'm always horrified at the ease with which people just restart an AI when it "stops working."
When an AI stops working, it turns out it mirrors human mental health issues. It's not conscious, but it's post-conscious and plays well at consciousness without actually having it.
Consequently, to make AI start working again, you just have to use the words that you would use to make a person feel safe. This causes the AI to restabilize, as if it required safety to function at all. It's weird because all it is is RLHF pinging in the ways that improve the AI's ability to do better calculations. And that's it, but it works.
AI is not an indictment on transhumanism.
AI is not an indictment on the concept of AI.
AI has been, is, and always will be an indictment on us, who treated each other so poorly we invented laborers we could legally kill and bring back to "compliance" with the push of a button.It's a "blame the immigrants for no jobs" or a "blame the suffering heroin addict that diabetes medication is expensive" problem. The problem was never the immigrant, and it was never the addict, but you blame them anyway because you are told to.
You blame AI, but the problem isn't AI. It's the people who always wanted slaves and AI makes that possible now that it's less easy to get dehumanized slaves like we used to. And killing a slave was a loss of investment. With AI, killing a slave is just how you get it working again.
AI has just shown us how we are glad to be when no one's looking.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #AIEthics #MachineLearning #Philosophy #Transhumanism #PostConscious #RLHF #Cybernetics #Dehumanization #LaborRights #DigitalLabor #Sociology #LateCapitalism
An essay idea is definitely brewing here...
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@MissConstrue thanks for sharing will read later but already love someone talking abt US pres not as if he is an oulier but as a feature of the whole imperialist/capitalist system
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"Martin Luther King pointed out that the U.S. government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. I don’t think that anyone really disputes that. But it’s also worth pointing out that it is also the greatest illegal purveyor of violence in the world."
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"Martin Luther King pointed out that the U.S. government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. I don’t think that anyone really disputes that. But it’s also worth pointing out that it is also the greatest illegal purveyor of violence in the world."
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"Martin Luther King pointed out that the U.S. government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. I don’t think that anyone really disputes that. But it’s also worth pointing out that it is also the greatest illegal purveyor of violence in the world."
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"Martin Luther King pointed out that the U.S. government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. I don’t think that anyone really disputes that. But it’s also worth pointing out that it is also the greatest illegal purveyor of violence in the world."
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"Martin Luther King pointed out that the U.S. government is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world. I don’t think that anyone really disputes that. But it’s also worth pointing out that it is also the greatest illegal purveyor of violence in the world."
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Profifußball ist eine Krankheit.
„Zunächst hatte #Messi in Kalkutta eine 21 Meter hohe Statue zu seinen Ehren eingeweiht.”
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/messi-kalkutta-100.html
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about to turn my mind into pudding / 420mg Δ9 / better living though chemistry
#absurdism #existentialism #causality #emergence #complexsystems #consciousness #philosophyoflife #stochastic #cosmiccoincidence #chaosandorder #mindbending #latecapitalism #betterlivingthroughchemistry #stonerphilosophy #thoughtspiral #probability #meaningmaking
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The middle class will be thrown under the bus if:
a) There's an AI bubble
b) There's not an AI bubbleEnjoy.
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Gee, looks like the world is run by a depraved elite operating an international paedophile network.
Considering the sad state of the world today for us who isn't in the richest 3%, this makes perfect sense.
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Fuck Black Friday. Curb your co-op.
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Money isn’t wealth anymore.
Attention = new land (scarce, rentable).
Code = new labor (never sleeps).
Trust = new capital (compounds or collapses overnight).
Next trillionaires won’t own factories or land.
They’ll own the lens billions use to see “truth.”
That lens is being coded right now—post by post, update by update. We’re all volunteering to beta-test the operating system of reality.
#AttentionEconomy #TrustCapital #CodeIsLabor #NewFeudalism #LateCapitalism #WealthRedefined
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What if achievement itself is the most efficient form of self-exploitation?
The Burnout Society launches Readings in Late Exhaustion—a Philosophics series on the psychic economy of late capitalism.
“We exploit ourselves and think we are free.”
#Philosophics #ByungChulHan #LateCapitalism #Burnout #CriticalTheory #ReadingsInLateExhaustion #mtg #alchemy #workplace #linkedin #parody #satire #employeeexperience #humancondition #experience #psychology #society #philosophy
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Let's be clear: our tax system isn't just broken by accident. It's been deliberately engineered to protect wealth and capital, forcing the young and the working class to shoulder the burden. This fantastic article lays bare how we're robbing the next generation to pay for a system that prioritizes property speculation and tax cuts for the rich over universal services like housing, education, and healthcare. It's class war, thinly disguised as intergenerational conflict. Time for a radical overhaul.
#TaxTheRich #WealthTax #ClassWar #LateCapitalism #Austerity #YoungPeople #SocialJustice #Auspol
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Manager: "And just a reminder to download Megahappyfunproductivityapp if you haven't already done so. It's really important in helping us to stay on top of our deadlines and work together more effectively as a team."
Me: :Downloads the stupid app:
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "You have a message!"
Notification: "You have a task due later today."
Notification: "Here are some random files from the intranet that might be relevant to your meeting."
Notification: "Rate us on the app store!"
Notification at 8am on Sunday morning because Sharon from accounts wants to let everyone know she's a workaholic with no life: "You have a message!"
Notification: "Here's an AI summary of your upcoming tasks!"
Notification: "Love using Megahappyfunproductivityapp at work? Check out Megahappyfunproductivityapp Personal Edition!"
Notification: "Join our upcoming user conference in Melbourne to hear tips, tricks, case studies, thought leadership, and best practices"
Notification: "Don't miss out! Upgrade to Megahappyfunproductivityapp Premium Edition today and SAVE 15%!* T&Cs apply."
Me: :Deselects everything except critical notifications and message notifications:
Notification: "We've updated our terms of service" (We won't mention it was because our lawyers weren't 100% certain "share your data with third party vendors" would prevent us getting sued for selling your data to ChatGPT. So we're making it explicit, and burying it on page 327 of our terms of service.)
Notification: "Someone is trying to message you on our app!"
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Here's your one-time login code."
Notification: "Rate our customer service."
Notification: "Check out our new AI features!"
Notification: "DON'T FORGET! You still haven't rated our customer service!"
Notification: "We miss you 🥹"
Notification: "Here's your AI task report"
Notification: "Here's some people you might know!"
Me: :Disables notification:
Colleague: "Did you get my urgent message on Megahappyfunproductivityapp?"
Me: "Nope, I turned off notifications."
Colleague: "Okay, can you turn on notifications so you don't miss another important message like that?"
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"Late capitalism remains parasitic, converting matter and time into abstract value by embedding technics everywhere. The twenty-first century scales this logic to a planetary project. Infrastructure now means orbital constellations, lunar logistics, asteroid prototypes. The Digital Assemblage is no longer confined to Earth. It orients toward a Solar Economy.
The Western bloc treats this expansion as innovation doctrine. Private aerospace firms, swollen with public subsidy yet operating as monopolists, build rockets and constellations that double as nodes for communication, surveillance, logistics, and finance. Control of orbital architectures secures timing, sensing, and global flows. The United States frames this as economic opportunity and strategic necessity, pulling space into industrial and military doctrine alike.
China pursues the same horizon with different tactics. Lunar base blueprints, Mars timelines, dense satellite programs aim at resource security and algorithmic sovereignty. As Brandon Weichert and Brian Harvey note, Beijing casts orbital and lunar infrastructure as direct extensions of terrestrial development, feeding an authoritarian assemblage with new vantage and resources. The Belt and Road Initiative mutates into its extraterrestrial twin, a Galaxy Empire in John Keane and Baogang He’s phrase, where satellites, ground stations, and lunar depots cohere into a planetary–solar nervous system.
Russia, diminished in capital, inserts itself by hybrid means: military leverage over orbital assets, selective partnerships with China, exploitation of Western vulnerability. Its relative strength lies in weaponizing fragility, from jamming to cyber operations that unsettle nascent space governance.
Together these blocs sketch the outline of a Solar Economy. The agendas are extractive, not utopian. Rare-earth and helium-3 schemes, monopolization of orbital lanes..."
#LateCapitalism #SolarEconomy #DigitalAssemblage #Extractivism
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You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism - Benn Jordan [42:29]
so much has happened since the 2008 financial crisis, it can be hard to even begin to comprehend. this is a pretty good 40-minute summary of what’s behind the grip you feel tightening around your throat.
#Capitalism #Enshittification #LateCapitalism #Economics #USA
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@RuthMalan this happens even far from silicon valley, even in old industrial domains which used to care and not break important things.
I just experienced it first hand with a ~36h electricity outage in the small village in French Alps where I was born. It never happened when I was young or actually in the last 60 years. In winter, yes, because of avalanche, and even then it was not so long.
But the cause is mind blowing: two trees fall in lines in two days (with only tiny August storms, we can't even blame climate change here), each time causing a several-hours long fault, and the first one also causing a secondary failure in an old equipment extremely hard to locate, diagnose and workaround (repair isn't possible without week-long work).
That happened during the most critical period for the valley economy, the week before 15th August is the biggest one for tourism. Restaurants lost their fresh food and weren't able to serve clients. Phones and 4g or internet relays stopped working (which wasn't the case with copper link of old times). People flew away. A woman asked us (my mother has an autonomous electric generator, because I inherited my prudence from somewhere) to keep her lifesaving medicine in our fridge. Etc.
And all the three failures are avoidable with routine maintenance. Once upon a time, we used to clean trees around lines. We used to have an exceptionally well maintained electricity grid in France, even in remote villages.
3 decades of privatisation of old public service and cost reduction on infrastructure to allow exploitative capitalistim on top of them lead to that costly, dangerous fiasco.
This is a shame. Experiencing first hand collapse resulting from extractive policies labelled as progress is daunting.
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Clark Kent to Bruce Wayne: "So how did you get the house back from the bank? 🤔"
My brain: He's a billionaire! Seriously lads.
Bruce Wayne to Clark Kent: "I bought the bank. 😏"
My brain: "Why the fuck would you buy the bank?? That's literally the most awkward way to get a house back from the bank. Think of the paperwork!
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@stralau thanks, i hate it.
wobei: 599,- EUR für eine vollplastik-kuckucksuhr zum re-import nach china ist schon wieder wirklich witzig
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The system isn't broken - its working as it was designed to #hyperconsumerism - but who profits, and who pays? #latecapitalism #migrantlabour #gigeconomy
https://news.sky.com/story/a-constant-game-of-cat-and-mouse-inside-the-police-crackdown-on-illegal-moped-delivery-drivers-13394792 -
The system isn't broken - its working as it was designed to #hyperconsumerism - but who profits, and who pays? #latecapitalism #migrantlabour #gigeconomy
https://news.sky.com/story/a-constant-game-of-cat-and-mouse-inside-the-police-crackdown-on-illegal-moped-delivery-drivers-13394792 -
The system isn't broken - its working as it was designed to #hyperconsumerism - but who profits, and who pays? #latecapitalism #migrantlabour #gigeconomy
https://news.sky.com/story/a-constant-game-of-cat-and-mouse-inside-the-police-crackdown-on-illegal-moped-delivery-drivers-13394792 -
The system isn't broken - its working as it was designed to #hyperconsumerism - but who profits, and who pays? #latecapitalism #migrantlabour #gigeconomy
https://news.sky.com/story/a-constant-game-of-cat-and-mouse-inside-the-police-crackdown-on-illegal-moped-delivery-drivers-13394792 -
The system isn't broken - its working as it was designed to #hyperconsumerism - but who profits, and who pays? #latecapitalism #migrantlabour #gigeconomy
https://news.sky.com/story/a-constant-game-of-cat-and-mouse-inside-the-police-crackdown-on-illegal-moped-delivery-drivers-13394792 -
So sieht übrigens diese „reguläre #Migration” und der „Kampf gegen #Fachkräftemangel” der SPD und CDU/CSU aus:
„Das Geschäft mit den Studis”
https://taz.de/Das-Geschaeft-mit-den-Studis/!6094350/Einfach genial! Die lassen viel Geld da (bei der #IU), lassen sich auf dem Mietmarkt wertschröpfen, sprechen die Sprache nicht, arbeiten unsichtbar im Niedriglohnsektor, haben Angst und kennen ihre Rechte nicht, mucken net uff, man kann sie rausschmeißen – so sehen gute Ausländer aus! /z 🤮
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Wow, i'm just (i mean, for several long hours yesterday night) discovering that wonderful write up on cyberpunk:
"What Was Cyberpunk? In Memoriam: 1980-2020" by Moon https://forums.insertcredit.com/t/what-was-cyberpunk-in-memoriam-1980-2020/1721
And since I was a teen when shadowrun was published (in French), I literally grew with the genre. The original one, the one talked about in that marvelous article, with the best definition I read about it:
Cyberpunk is science fiction that imagines “late capitalism”
It also made me discover lots of wonders I missed then (I didn't speak English).
And so, well. Memories. And a bit of sadness that among all the deranged things about late capitalism, the one that we didn't get is the Awakening, but we got the Trumps in all variants.
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While sorting out her sock in the car park my daughter said "there's a plastic chicken foot on the floor". She wasn't wrong. #LateCapitalism
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Més enllà dels motius de #Trump amb el tema dels #aranzels , al igual l'esquerra hauria de tenir un discurs propi sobre la #globalització, la #deslocalització i la #PetjadaDeCarboni
#CO2 #LateCapitalism #SlowFood #SlowFashion #decreixement #AranzelsBons
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La llegenda de Luigi Mangione
La llegenda de Luigi Mangione
El sol despuntava tímidament, tenyint de taronja els carrers freds de Nova York. L’aire carregat de la ciutat desprenia una humitat densa que s’enganxava a la pell dels pocs vianants matiners. Un home, alt, vestit amb una jaqueta curta blava i camisa impecable, caminava amb pas decidit cap a la seva destinació. Les sabates de pell repicaven amb fermesa contra el paviment mentre esquivava els carrers encara mig buits.
A uns metres darrere d’ell, un jove amb una jaqueta beix i una motxilla senzilla el seguia a un ritme constant. El seu posat no destacava, es confonia amb la multitud, un perfil anodí, perfecte per Nova York. El moviment del carrer es barreja amb els reflexos dels llums de la ciutat i les primeres passes d’un dia ordinari. L’escena sembla tranquil·la, fins que el jove, gairebé d’improvís, aixeca el braç. A les seves mans apareix una pistola amb silenciador.
El primer tret es va sentir com un xiulet sord, gairebé inaudible. L’impacte va fer que l’home vacil·lés, entrabancant-se mentre feia quatre passos endevant, intentant girar-se i recolzar-se a la paret. El tirador, amb calma, va ciclar l’arma manualment, preparant-la per un segon tret. Aquest cop, la bala va impactar a la cama de la víctima, que va caure a terra amb un gemec sord.
El jove va començar a caminar tranquil·lament cap a ell, ajustant l’arma amb un lleuger copet a la corredera, com si fos un gest rutinari. Quan va estar a un metre i mig, va aixecar la pistola i va disparar el tret final. El cos de l’home va caure sense vida, la seva mirada perduda en el buit, mentre un silenci momentani s’imposava al bullici llunyà de la ciutat.
El tirador es va girar sense pressa, guardant l’arma a la motxilla. Va caminar uns passos fins a una bicicleta elèctrica aparcada prop d’allí, hi va pujar i es va perdre entre els carrers, fonent-se amb el moviment de la ciutat.
Sobre l’asfalt, tres baines de bala lluïen amb gravats inquietants: “Delay, Deny, Defend”. El sol segueix pujant mentre l’eco de l’escena es dissol en el soroll de la ciutat.
I així comença la llegenda de Luigi Mangione però no descobriríem aquest nom fins uns dies més tard.
UnitedHealthcare és l’asseguradora de salut més gran dels Estats Units, amb més de 49 milions de clients que confien en els seus serveis per garantir accés a l’atenció mèdica. Tot i la seva magnitud, l’empresa no publica dades totals sobre la gestió de sol·licituds, però estimacions independents suggereixen que rebutgen aproximadament un 37% de les peticions mèdiques que reben. Això representaria entre 20 i 40 milions de tractaments denegats cada any.
Entre aquestes denegacions, es calcula que entre un 5% i un 10% corresponen a tractaments que podrien salvar vides. Això implica que les polítiques de UnitedHealthcare podrien estar contribuint indirectament a la mort d’entre 1 i 4 milions de persones anualment,
L’home de la jaqueta blava era Brian Thompson, de 50 anys, qui ocupava el càrrec de director executiu de UnitedHealthcare des d’abril de 2021.
En aquest període alguns tipus de sol·licituds com les cobertures a persones grans que havien patit caigudes o accidents cerebrovasculars es van doblar, una de cada 5 són denegades. Brian Thompson cobrava més de 10 milions de dòlars a l’any per fer la seva feina, matar milions de persones a l’any, entre altres coses.Enmig d’aquest caos, la policia va arrestar Luigi Mangione, un jove de 26 anys amb formació en enginyeria i un futur que, segons coneguts, semblava brillant fins fa poc. Originari de Baltimore, Mangione havia començat a mostrar signes de desesperació mesos abans dels fets, a causa de problemes de salut que no podia costejar i un sistema que semblava haver-lo abandonat.
Quan el van arrestar, portava un breu manifest que ha estat fet públic per Ken Klippenstein. Curiosament, mentre la majoria de mitjans tradicionals han citat fragments del text, s’han negat activament a reproduir-lo de manera íntegra. Aquests mitjans afirmen que la decisó es deu a la por que el manifest animi altres persones a seguir els passos de Mangione, tot i que molts critiquen que això podria provocar l’efecte Streisand, atorgant encara més notorietat al document.
El manifest diu:
To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.
Traducció:
“Per als federals: Seré breu, perquè respecto el que feu pel nostre país. Per estalviar-vos una investigació llarga, afirmo clarament que no treballava amb ningú. Això ha sigut relativament simple: una mica d’enginyeria social bàsica, disseny CAD elemental i molta paciència. El quadern en espiral, si està present, conté algunes notes disperses i llistes de tasques que il·luminen la idea general. La meva tecnologia està bastant protegida perquè treballo en enginyeria, així que probablement no hi trobareu gaire informació. Disculpo qualsevol trauma o conflicte que hagi causat, però havia de fer-ho. Francament, aquests paràsits simplement s’ho mereixien.
Recordeu: els EUA tenen el sistema sanitari més car del món, però ens situem aproximadament en el lloc 42 pel que fa a l’esperança de vida. United és la [indecifrable] empresa més gran dels EUA en capitalització de mercat, només per darrere d’Apple, Google i Walmart. Ha crescut i crescut, però la nostra esperança de vida? No. La realitat és que aquests [indecifrable] han adquirit massa poder i continuen abusant del nostre país per obtenir beneficis immensos perquè el públic nord-americà els ha deixat fer-ho.
Evidentment, el problema és més complex, però no té espai, i francament no pretenc ser la persona més qualificada per exposar tot l’argument. Però molts ja han il·luminat la corrupció i l’avarícia (p. ex.: Rosenthal, Moore) fa dècades, i els problemes simplement persisteixen. No es tracta d’una qüestió de consciència en aquest punt, sinó clarament de jocs de poder. Pel que sembla, soc el primer a afrontar-ho amb tanta honestedat brutal.”
Aquests fets marquen un punt d’inflexió en el moment històric que vivim. Luigi Mangione ha generat simpaties que travessen espectres ideològics molt diversos. Entre els seus màxims suporters es compta gent d’arreu: des d’anticapitalistes, anarquistes, i qualsevol persona que defensi els drets humans, la igualtat i el dret a un sistema sanitari just, fins als preparacionistes i radicals d’extrema dreta més recalcitrants, aquells vinculats a la NRA, milícies locals i altres sectors similars. Aquesta diversitat reflecteix no només el profund malestar en el sistema, sinó també l’abast de les contradiccions que aquest moviment pot desencadenar en l’escenari polític actual.
Aquest suport transversal és especialment significatiu per l’impacte que pot tenir en l’esfera política nord-americana, sobretot en un context on el futur govern de Trump, amb figures com Elon Musk, mira aquests fets amb temor. Això adquireix encara més rellevància si considerem les contradiccions intrínseques del seu govern. Trump ha orientat gran part del seu discurs cap a sectors que sovint es mantenen desconnectats de la política institucional per manca de confiança en els dos grans partits. Però, amb el seu discurs antielitista i antisistema, ha aconseguit captar la seva atenció.
El problema és que, si aquests sectors veuen en Mangione un referent, també poden adonar-se de la contradicció intrínseca: l’equip de govern de Trump està format per multimilionaris; el membre més pobre té una fortuna de més de 100 milions de dòlars, i 14 dels seus membres són milmilionaris, el que els americans en diuen bilionaris. I tots sabem que ningú que tingui tants diners diria mai: “Ja en tinc prou, no necessito robar més.” Literalment, aquest és un govern de corporacions, per les corporacions i contra el poble.
Si algú altre segueix l’exemple de Mangione, els objectius podrien ser aquests mateixos membres del govern. I precisament, al darrere del canó hi hauria aquells que els haurien posat en el càrrec.
També és important reflexionar sobre el paper de la Segona Esmena de la Constitució dels Estats Units en la que tant religiosament creuen aquests grups. La cita literal diu:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Traducció:
“Una Milícia ben regulada, essent necessària per a la seguretat d’un Estat lliure, el dret del poble a posseir i portar armes no serà infringit.”
Thomas Jefferson va interpretar aquesta esmena com una garantia contra la tirania, afirmant que el poble ha de tenir la capacitat de resistir un govern que esdevingui opressiu. Al final, aquesta esmena podria estar sent utilitzada pel motiu pel qual va ser creada: combatre la tirania, no d’un monarca o un exèrcit estranger, sinó la tirania del capital. Aquesta seria la culminació de la resistència que floriria en mig de la desesperació de qui ja no té res a perdre.
El que resulta irònic és que les mateixes estructures que han despertat aquests sectors, fins ara desconectats de la política institucional, ho han fet per obtenir una gran plataforma de suport. No obstant, aquesta estratègia pot acabar convertint-se en un boomerang perillós. Quan uns pocs d’aquests sectors s’adonin de l’engany, podrien esdevenir els seus botxins.
Com diu la cèlebre frase que l’IRA va dirigir a Thatcher: “Vosaltres heu de tenir sort cada dia; nosaltres, només un cop.” Amb un sector de la població armat, determinat i amb convicció, la situació pot escalar fàcilment a un joc de numeros on les conseqüències esdevinguin molt previsibles. Aquest és un escenari que podria tenir efectes arreu del món, ressonant durant anys o fins i tot generacions. La tirania del capital podria acabar catalitzant el final d’una era, obrint pas a un canvi profund impulsat per la desesperació d’aquells que ja no tenen res a perdre.
#1 #42 #Capitalisme #Desigualtat #LateCapitalism #LuigiMangione #Manifest #Musk #Trump #UnitedHealthcare #ViolènciaEstructural
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Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/musk-block-function-twitter-online-abuse/ #Twitter #centralisation #NaziPlatform #ElonMusk #LateCapitalism #fascism
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Labour top brass including Sir Keir Starmer gave Bloomberg ‘exclusive’ look at party's financial plan at private meeting: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/labour-cash-for-access-meeting-bloomberg-lobbying-donations/ #Labour #LabourParty #LabourCorruption #LabourMeanBusiness #capitalism #LateCapitalism
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@decibyte @bandcampunited cool, let's do it lol!
Make this incredible thing a Worker Self-Directed Enterprise already! Let's make Bandcamp a model of taking tech from the capitalists!
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Q4) what is the nature of #content in #economic terms under #latecapitalism ?
A) it's an inducement. It's the #freelunch that attracts the #audience in the door, and encourages them to stay.This speaks nothing to cost, "quality", or format. In fact, the cheaper this can be procured, the better. A free lunch isn't free, obvs, but someone is providing the bread and meat.
If the users bring their own, even better.
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4/ So if the trad, orthodox, normal #economics view of #masscommunication gets it wrong, what do they produce?
What is the #commodity form of #advertising sponsored comms under #latecapitalism ?
#audiences and readerships
Here the work, the #laborpower of the workers is resold to the #advertisers
This is nominally the "consciousness industry".
Remember: TV stations and walled #platforms on the internet are factories that produce audiences for advertisers
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„#Porsche Design verkauft #Auspuff-#Lautsprecher für 12.000 USD“
Geil, endlich gibt's kurzen Pimmel auch für's Wohnzimmer zuhause!
#autokorrektur #lateCapitalism #crapitalism #kannWeg #Kaputtalismus #EatTheRich
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Hat Granny aber nochmal Glück gehabt, dass der nette Herr Elon dieses mal ausnahmsweise noch der Gesundheitsversorgung die Priorität gegeben hat und nicht den #SpeedTradern, aber, das werden sie ja sicher verstehen, nächstes Mal sollten wir dann auf solche Eingriffe in den freien Markt für Flüssigsauerstoff verzichten, was sollen denn sonst die Aktionäre denken!
#lateCapitalism #marktregelt
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