ya boi timApr 9, 2024

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

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@burgerdrome

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

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

Apr 13, 2024 at 4:17pmWeb
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.
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@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

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