#surplusicity — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #surplusicity, aggregated by home.social.
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Etymologically, a "consumer" is one who squanders or wastes (15th century). Economic discourse elides this meaning: reducing consumption to flipside of coin of production. Not negligence, but equilibrium.
#Lumpentheory speaks to bounty-motive. Born of crisis of #surplusicity, #RentBounty harvest and #perquisitive #classposture both find negligence in what is not taken, what is not gathered.
That is, colonial bounty-motive flips "consumption" on its head, renders the consumer as virtuous.
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