• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Dumb guy’s idea of a smart guy stocks are proliferating.

    “I haven’t read a book since my high school teachers made me read The Giving Tree and a bunch of anti-communist shlock in 9th grade, nor have I matured as a person or learned anything that would cause me to have an internal process, so I’m going to tell billionaires that the most banal vision of 80s cyberpunk corporate feudalism is cool and good and they’re going to hail me as a genius for making fascism and company towns sound " disruptive”.

  • QuillcrestFalconer [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    The book outlines a plan for tech plutocrats to exit democracy and establish new sovereign territories.

    I have an idea. They should establish a sovereign territory at the bottom of the ocean

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    I get tired of people trying to call what’s happening and going to happen as “tech feudalism” or some new kind of “feudalism.” Its just capitalism. Stop making up things to blame instead of the the hegemonic global system by which all things are produced and allocated.

    Libs are going to keep doing variations of “no its crony capitalism” until the sky catches fire

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      The reason people use terms like tech feudalism is not to escape blaming capitalism, but to highlight the way capitalist systems are creating social structures akin to the common perception of feudalism.

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        That makes sense, but i think there’s bleed over to libs using it as “capitalism was great, but now its tech feudalism.” The same way they used corporatism and crony capitalism to act like its a deviation from their platonic ideal of capitalism that they’re sure totally existed once but not now

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        I find it’s useful for getting people to seriously think about how, for instance, health care is used to enserf people, tie them to a company they cannot leave regardless of their treatment. People often think of themselves as free, as choosing their employment and their “career”. Serfs, though, don’t choose. Getting people to think in those terms can be useful.

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    I’m surprised the feds haven’t gone after this loser. Threats of secession/blatantly overthrowing the US government is the one thing a super rich person can get into serious trouble over.

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    Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native

    Never met a Long Islander who wasn’t a racist removed. The last one I talked to liked to hurl slurs at homeless people before speeding away in his car.