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Not compartmentalising is trickier than you imply, as the whole corporate-capitalist system of power (which supplies nearly all of your and my goods) depends at
by crispinb 6y ago
Not compartmentalising is trickier than you imply, as the whole corporate-capitalist system of power (which supplies nearly all of your and my goods) depends at its root on current exploitation and drawing down on its investment in future destruction (of the entire biosphere). We can point fingers at many hideous individual corporate citizens in tech (Dropbox & Amazon spring immediately to mind, current Microsoft doesn't), but the whole system depends intrinsically on maintaining the ignorance you write of.
How to extricate ourselves from all that? Personally, I'm for revolution to take it all down. But we know that isn't going to happen.
- rexpop 6y ago> hideous individual corporate citizens I agree with you, that pointing fingers like is useless. We very quickly run out of fingers. > I'm for revolution to take it all down. I wonder what you mean by that.
- crispinb 6y ago> I wonder what you mean by that I'm not entirely sure. If I had a recipe I'd probably be a leader somewhere rather than an anonymous sometime programmer in deepest Northern NSW! One of the few things I'm pretty certain of though is that the capitalist-corporate system is a road to worldwide destruction. And that there are no diversions within the system, no reforms that can do anything other than alter the speed of the decline. It all has to go, by whatever means necessary. Though I'm open to the possibility that the course is a biological given, and capitalist-corporatism is merely a consequence of that biology. In which case, we're done.