ZekromasterApr 10, 2024
ya boi tim

What's YOUR favourite capitalist innovation from the last 10 years? There are so many to choose from!

a) Renting someone else's computer while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

b) Renting someone's music while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

c) Renting someone else's movies and TV while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

d) Renting someone else's house while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

e) Renting someone else's car while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

f) Renting someone else's scooter while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

g) Renting a poor person's body while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

Sound off in the comments!*

*Don't reply to me

Apr 9, 2024 at 1:54amWeb
Show threadya boi timApr 9, 2024
Posting the most ridiculously low-hanging-fruit Mastodon-user-bait possible and then saying "Don't reply to me" while the engagement rolls in. "That's the Timb promise"
Show threadapaluApr 9, 2024
@burgerdrome "they're really going to love capitalism now that we've turned all of the bougies into proletariat. Right? Right???"
Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftApr 9, 2024

@burgerdrome *Don't you have anything without commodifying your data for advertising purposes?*

Well, the Renting someone else's house while commodifying your data for advertising purposes only has a *little* commodifying your data for advertising purposes in it.

*But I don't LIKE commodifying my data for advertising purposes*!

<vikings in the background:> `Commodify! Commod-if-y!`

Shut up!

Show threadKenApr 9, 2024
@burgerdrome
Did you know that Mastodon has a poll feature?
No, first that I heard of it.
6.3%
Yes; no one on proprietary platforms uses them
12.5%
Yes, but they aren't scientifically accurate
81.3%
Poll ended at .
Show threadBat Master FreshApr 10, 2024

@burgerdrome well, there's checking out library books while commodifying your data for advertising purposes

https://infosec.exchange/@longobord/112243098104196246

Christie Dudley (@[email protected])

Yesterday I started receiving targeted ads based on ebook borrows from my library (San Francisco Public Library). The content of those ads suggested that the targeters were aware of which books I chose to read. #Privacy #library 1/x

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Show threadMatt Hardy 3.11 for WorkgroupsApr 10, 2024
@burgerdrome adblockers
Show thread[empty]Apr 10, 2024
@burgerdrome I am detecting a pattern here
Show threadwoolieApr 12, 2024
@burgerdrome people love these products and demand them, fully aware that their data is sold for advertising purposes.
Show threadMisuse CaseApr 13, 2024
@wooliex @burgerdrome You have to have a pretty skewed idea of “consent” and “informed consent” to believe this TBH
Show threadRDApr 13, 2024

@burgerdrome

This isn't capitalism it's cOrPoRaTe cRoNyIsM!!1!!

It's still better than CeNtRaL pLaNnInG!!1!!

Show threadA Lloyd FlanaganApr 13, 2024
@RD4Anarchy @burgerdrome Yet those are not the only two options. The government, for example, could actually enforce laws on the books and break up monopolies.
Show threadRDApr 13, 2024

@alloydflanagan @burgerdrome

Sorry, I thought my use of mixed case would make it obvious that I was being sarcastic.

Central planning is a boogieman that really only exists in the minds of the sorts of people I was mocking.

Corporate cronyism *is* capitalism.

Show threadA Lloyd FlanaganApr 13, 2024
@RD4Anarchy Sorry some of us miss the subtext sometimes.
Show threadRDApr 13, 2024

@alloydflanagan @burgerdrome

Before someone comes along to tell me that central planning does in fact happen, let me offer some nuance.

Yes, central planning does happen to some degree or other everywhere. In fact, if you have a state, you have central planning, there's no way around that. Where ancaps and right libertarians are mistaken is when they claim you can have capitalism without state (and therefore without any central planning). In fact, you cannot have capitalism at all without state. See "The Iron Fist Behind The Invisible Hand" by Kevin Carson:
https://c4ss.org/content/24158

My comment was regarding the idea of central planning as an absolute duality in opposition with capitalism. The reality is that central planning occurs in all states to some degree as I pointed out, and also that *all* states have been capitalist since at least the early 20th century, even those referred to as "socialist" or "communist". To put it simply: none have eliminated capital, none have eliminated wage labor, and none have freed themselves from the global capitalist system.

"State Capitalism: The Wages System Under New Management" by Adam Buick and John Crump is an excellent book for explaining this, and also very good for understanding capitalism in general. Here's a free DL:
https://files.libcom.org/files/State%20Capitalism.pdf

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand

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Show threadDemocracy Dies in DumbassApr 13, 2024

@burgerdrome

"Sound off in the comments!*

*Don't reply to me"

Not how mastodon works....

But you're finding that out right about now aren't you.

Show threadya boi timApr 14, 2024
@ShredderFeeder The whole point of putting that in there was to find people to mute and boy howdy after looking at your bio I'm so happy to be slapping you with that mute button. Jesus Christ you sound absolutely fucking insufferable. Good luck