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This is what he wrote about in a longer form here: https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59?gi=sd https://onezero.medium.
by wazoox 6y ago
This is what he wrote about in a longer form here:
https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59?gi=sd https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capit...
This is also what Matt Stoller is writing about, the "monopolisation" of the world, particularly in tech of course:
https://mattstoller.substack.com/ https://mattstoller.substack.com/
Funnily, I've recently read "Imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism" by Lenin. Multinational companies were called trusts, monopolism was called imperialism, and train, coal and steel was since replaced with telcos and internet but it's incredibly apt at describing our world. Even the "systemic banks" were mostly the same 100 years ago : BNP, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale, JPMorgan...
- lioeters 6y agoThank you, both links led to thought-provoking articles. > "..The rule of law against the powerful has collapsed in America." > "Monopolism makes companies act like mafias, stupid and lazy, with an emphasis on abusive commercial practice rather than technical or organizational excellence." > "Surveillance capitalism is everywhere. But it’s not the result of some wrong turn or a rogue abuse of corporate power — it’s the system working as intended." --- Here's the whole pamphlet by Lenin: Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ I'm no Marxist by any means, but I think it's possible to appreciate some of these insights into society, without dismissing (or agreeing with) the ideology that it's become.