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The average person simply has no hope of understanding the flows of modern global capital, data, weapons, etc. Back in the day, if the local leather tanner was
by squokko 3y ago
The average person simply has no hope of understanding the flows of modern global capital, data, weapons, etc.
Back in the day, if the local leather tanner was polluting the town water supply... you'd just go tell him to stop, and if he didn't...
Nowadays the only people who have any idea what's actually going on are the ones who are profiting the most from it and have no incentive to shut it down.
- anjel 3y agoIf they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. -Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
- SenAnder 3y ago> The average person simply has no hope of understanding If Mastercard used a private detective to follow you when shopping, and he wrote everything you bought and where you bought it into a notebook, which he later delivers to Mastercard, the average person would understand very quickly.