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Are the people who think ‘problematic’ means ‘cancelled’ the same ones who think ‘there is no ethical consumption under late capitalism’ means ‘never buy anything’? Glad I don’t know any of them.

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Public service announcement: markets & capitalism aren’t the same thing. You can have non-capitalist or even anti-capitalist markets (ex., cases where progressive taxes actually make rentseeking infeasible, or markets without private property). You can have capitalism without markets (like inside a corporation).

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Trendism follows the logic of capital. The more capital you have, the less risk any investment is & the more you stand to gain from it. Given a diverse portfolio, a large investment will grow while a small one disappears: capital’s gravity at work.

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In one sense, ‘the computer revolution is over’ because the period of exponential growth behind the tech ended 10 years ago. In another sense, it hasn’t begun: we have sheltered ourselves from the social and intellectual ramifications of computing. Documents are still simulations of paper, & capitalism still exists. So it’s like that period where printing presses existed but everybody used a faux-calligraphic font.

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People are jumping on Musk for ‘researching his jokes’ but, you know, if you researched your jokes you’d actually make better ones. Let’s be clear. The problem with Musk is not researching jokes. The problem with Musk is capitalism.

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