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>Yanis Varoufakis proposes that capitalism has died — but it wasn’t replaced by socialism. Rather, capitalism has given way to feudalism: This to me is what is
by jmclnx 3y ago
>Yanis Varoufakis proposes that capitalism has died — but it wasn’t replaced by socialism. Rather, capitalism has given way to feudalism:
This to me is what is really happening. A good symbol of this is income inequality and to a lesser extent, no real action on climate change.
Eventually, the "lords" will be in their castles were we most people bake. The "knights" could be the tech people.
- plagiarist 3y agoCapitalism is not dead, then. The destination of unregulated capitalism has always been feudalism. Unfortunately the lords think they will be able to survive in little mansions and that climate change will never make them miserable personally. So they have spent small amounts of capital brainwashing rubes against taking any action so they can continue raking in large amounts of capital with destructive practices.
- pawelmurias 3y agoAren't they kind of right? If you are a rich dude living in an airconditioned mansion even big climate changes won't affect you that while they can seriously ruin a poor farmer or cause a significant loss of bio diversity. If it gets bad for them they plan to dim the sun.
- plagiarist 3y agoTheir lifestyles will be fucked when they cannot be pampered in the cities by a pyramid build on low wage labor. They will never be content with hiding in their mansions, we saw that in 2020.
- sydbarrett74 3y agoThat's why they're busy reserving a seat on a cock-rocket headed for Mars.
- plagiarist 3y agoIt would be far more comfortable and less expensive to address climate change on Earth than it would be to terraform Mars.
- sydbarrett74 3y agoI agree totally. But these billionaires with more money than sense probably wouldn't have their egos stroked as much by saving Earth as they would by being the first settlers of Mars. Plus, by fleeing to another planet they no longer have to interact with 'lesser sorts' and can all have one big billionaire circle-jerk.
- runesofdoom 3y agoNo! *The "tech people" are not knights and never will be. The "knights" are upper management. The lords are the centimillionaires and up. The rest of us are slaves, peasants, maybe monks if we're "lucky".
- esarbe 3y agoThat's the myth that tech people willingly participating in this exploitative behavior tell themselves; that they are going to be part of the elite - that's what they get told by upper management. That way "upper management" has been turning workers against themselves for ages; just convince the more lucky of them that they are entitled and destined to be part of the elite. Someday. It's working splendidly.
- gonehome 3y agoI wrote a blog post playing on this idea a while back (though narrowly focused on FB and social media): https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook.html https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/07/14/the-serfs-of-facebook... In it the Knights were the devs, CEOs were earls, Kings were presidents/dictators. Users (naturally) were serfs. It fits pretty well to current megacorp structure.
- hoosieree 3y agoThe techies are well-fed gladiators, not knights.