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It’s perhaps difficult to find the flaw in this argument until you note that society isn’t 50/50 capitalists and workers. Pull on that thread a bit and combine
by shove 3y ago
It’s perhaps difficult to find the flaw in this argument until you note that society isn’t 50/50 capitalists and workers. Pull on that thread a bit and combine it with the fact that neither the government nor bankers (whether central or Main Street) sit magically outside society and it starts to become pretty obvious what’s going on here. This is garden variety propaganda masquerading as rational think-piece.
- c4mpute 3y agoYour argument is flawed. Society isn't necessarily 50/50 capitalists/workers. But corporate media and thus public discourse is.
- cced 3y ago_Corporate_ media is 50% workers? What are You going on about?..
- c4mpute 3y agoCorporate media talks 50% about their corporate interests and 50% about "the workers" in an unconvincing way for the appearance of balance. So this is perfect for the kind of artificial antagonism that is supposed to be created by the central banks and govt as the article suggests.
- glimshe 3y agoThat is an extraordinary claim. Most of what I see in the media is about politics, crime or the life of artists.
- shove 3y agoThe map is not the territory bro
- spacecadet 3y agoapplaud emoji - yes, enough of this single dimensional thinking on hacker news.
- the_lego 3y agoIt's not at all obvious to me - could you explain?
- shove 3y agoIn order for the author’s thesis to work, the government (which is somehow absurdly neither sided with capitalists nor workers) actively pits the two classes against each other in a permanent stalemate. In order for that to work, the two must be equally matched in power, else one side would just win and the gambit would be over. Workers as a class are equal to capitalists as a class neither in number nor in combined power. It’s an absurd take.
- the_lego 3y ago> the two must be equally matched in power, else one side would just win You're confusing actual battle with mere rhetorical arguments, a shouting match. There is no victor, just noise that serves as a distraction. Besides, the thesis has two parts: what the alleged true cause of inflation is, and how attention is being diverted away from it. They can each be independently true or false.
- shove 3y agoUnless we’re getting out the torches and pitchforks and marching to the guillotines (pretty please?), it’s purely a rhetorical battle. Are you suggesting that power dynamics are irrelevant in a shouting-match? I’m not taking issue with the “true cause” bit. I’m taking issue with the absurd notion that the central banks and govt sit outside the capitalist/worker dynamic.
- shove 3y agoThe downvotes only make me stronger