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Capitalism's greatest superpower is absorbing all critique and selling it back to consumers as a luxury good.
by drBonkers 5y ago
Capitalism's greatest superpower is absorbing all critique and selling it back to consumers as a luxury good.
- the_af 5y agoInsightful observation. Also depressing. Probably why Gibson dislikes this trend.
- obese44 5y agovery insightful, that is 100% your original quote
- ghostDancer 5y agoYou can get it in a t-shirt probably. ;-)
- BlueTemplar 5y agoMark Fisher : "Capitalism is very much like the Thing in John Carpenter’s film of the same name: a monstrous, infinitely plastic entity, capable of metabolizing and absorbing anything with which it comes into contact. Capital, Deleuze and Guattari say, is a 'motley painting of everything that ever was'."
- drBonkers 5y agoI heard it first from Daryl Cooper.
- brimble 5y agoAs in Black Mirror's "Fifteen Million Merits".
- cubano 5y agoNot bad, but I personally think its superpower is always being just the tiniest bit better than everything else...
- EricE 5y agoFunny, that!