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> Capitalism isn't seen as anything bad in most countries after the cold war. It’s called “surveillance capitalism” because companies are capitalizing on selli
by surround 7y ago
> Capitalism isn't seen as anything bad in most countries after the cold war.
It’s called “surveillance capitalism” because companies are capitalizing on selling people’s data. It differentiates it from government surveillance.
- usr1106 7y agoSurveillance is dangerous, regardless whether it's the KGB, the Stasi or Google who does it.
- pdkl95 7y agoIt’s called “surveillance capitalism" to differentiate it from other forms of capitalism. From this[1] interview with Zuboff: > So even early on in the theorizing of capitalism it was understood that capitalism takes on different market forms and different eras in the context of different technologies. We’ve had mercantile capitalism, and we’ve had factory capitalism, and mass-production capitalism, and managerial capitalism, financial capitalism. And typically what happens in these new concepts is that modifier, like “mass production,” or in my case “surveillance” capitalism, what that modifier is doing is pinpointing the pivot of value creation in this new market form. [1] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-and-a-the-age-of-surveillance-capital.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-an...
- Fnoord 7y agoIn a corrupt (nation) state, you could for example buy some information about a person, via the government. Corruptcy is not a black-white definition. There are a lot of shades, wheels in a machine, etc. So a state is not merely corrupt, yes or no.