This but unironically

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The difference between the old new deals, and any new new deals is the new deals of the 1930s were forced through by a widespread strikes and organizing in every crucial sector. FDR didn’t make labor unions legal, the labor movement was seizing control of whole cities and industries, for years, and forced the labor movement into a state of legal legitimacy. But as soon as that happened, the legal labor movement was subordinated to the federal government. Taft-Hartley, which came after concerted demobilization of the labor movement during ww2, was the first formal step toward the death-spiral of mass labor power.

No social democrat has ever, or will ever, be able to conceive or gestate a new deal, all they can do is use institutional legitimacy to deliver it, and steal all the credit in the process. (The primary contradiction of capitalism according to Marx is “socialized production, individualized surplus”, another overlap between economic and political production.) I know that you know this, but it just can’t be said enough.

We could conceivably get a new new deal that reshuffles the deck a few times, the trick will be rejecting that deal

need ai integration to code

Nah that dude is on the left, and he makes 250k per year

ChatGPT will fail, Altman will take the fall, Microsoft will get the whole thing, and nothing negative will be avoided.

He’s a total ideologue.

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Now people can’t describe anything concretely, so they can never check if their abstractions are even accurate.

The idea of concretizing problems is something ive been thinking about a lot recently, and its surprising how simple yet unnatural it is. When you think about it an abstraction can help aid understanding and can bring us closer to objective reality, but a false abstraction actually is alienating from reality, nature, each other, ourselves.

Also there’s a lot of really smart people who are able to name an abstraction, name the specific concrete occurrence that is contained in or broadly explained by the abstraction, but can’t conceive of or explain any of the steps in between.

We all just out here vibing “trust me bro” and dont even realize it

“First names dont indicate familial relationsh…” sees kanji in username “…oh never mind, carry on”

inevitable only in hindsight

I’m not so sure. I’m still friends with a guy who told me emphatically “you dont understand what we did, we destroyed the global economy” and then explained the whole subprime mortgage scam to me, back in like 2007. Lots of downstream businesses, new home builders, paint and drywall companies, building materials stores, started folding several months before the official crash as well. I wasn’t nearly as aware of things then, I was a grown adult but not yet 30 and with little formal education, but there were definitely huge flashing signs. Only the media, based 100% on the words of the banks and insurance companies, thought that a crash was undetectable.

I’m not sure quite what it would look like yet, but I’m willing to bet if you look where these data centers are being built, when the cash runs out to keep the whole scam afloat, these big companies will stop paying their bills. The smaller companies providing services and supplies will run out of money before the huge mega corpos start showing signs, so that is one of the metrics I’m watching closely. I just happen to live in the shadow of these data centers so I’ll be pretty close to it, that is if I’m right.

Isn’t that just like regular school? American schools students have to do all sorts of patriotic nationalist hoo ha

1000%

But exploitation is about human freedom. Getting rid of billionaires doesn’t end exploitation. It’s just a beginning.

The struggle for human freedom will never end

Sigourney and Gillian aren’t billionaire capitalists, they’re wealthy because they’re talented actresses. Their talent makes the owners of production companies lots of money, and they’re paid a fraction of it. But they still have to find someone to buy their labor. They had to audition to get jobs before they were big stars.

TS’s dad bought a record label and signed her to it.

Class analysis can be tricky, especially the entertainment industry, but it isnt always about being rich or not. The surest way to tell is “what is the relationship to production?” Tay is a billionaire because she helped ticketmaster and Live Nation create a monopoly, she’s a parasite. Without Gillian and Sigourney, the movies and shows they worked in wouldn’t be as good.

She’s worth 1.6 billion so its actually less

Sending that much money to a two year old doesn’t make sense. They literally have no concept of money or social responsibility. Why send money when the kid clearly needs a Dr.

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Charity from billionaires always looks so fake. Just send it anonymously. Otherwise its just a publicity stunt.

If her entire fortune was $100000 she would have given $6.25. A handful of pocket change and a fiver. Yet I don’t get articles by the independent written about me when I give an unhoused veteran a $20

I’m glad that someone in her position did less than the absolute bare minimum to help that child’s family. What a moving gesture.

The powers that are driving this are actually planning 20, 30 years ahead. Market solutions is a cover for class war. Trump is cashing checks written by Bush, Obama, etc.,

The “line go up” meme is prevalent because the attitude is a flimsy cover for deeper relations and actual class conspiracy

“Machines were the weapon used to quell the revolt of specialized labor” – Karl Marx

Its literally 8 people that own half the worlds wealth

If you eliminate enough jobs and increase unemployment, wages go down across the board. But then you also do away with high wages for highly technical roles