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Read The Séance Chapter in Thomas Pynchons, Gravity's Rainbow.. It's a great description of how the Capatalist Cartel think about the extraction of Earth's res

• defrost 2y ago
  Cheers for the suggestion, I personally read the book, attended the concert [1], and learnt more about capitalist resource extraction attitudes from meeting the Vogons [2] when working on mapping [3] than I did from Pynchon's filtered Rathenau [4]. First hand beats fiction. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhzJK352NI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXhzJK352NI [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gina_Rinehart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Palmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Palmer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_family et al. [3] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/metals-mining https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Rathenau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Rathenau
  • aebtebeten 2y ago
    > capitalist resource extraction attitudes Please, extraction is such a divisive term; we prefer to call it recovery.
    • bregma 2y ago
      I believe the proper capitalist term is "primary resource".
• scottyah 2y ago
  Everybody wants cake, but nobody wants to crack an eggshell