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Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br) (lxo@gnusocial.jp), page 11
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@doctorow (or should I say @pluralistic?) has correctly IMHO diagnosed that capitalists hate capitalism, but that's because those are misidentified as capitalists, they're actually feudal lords in their rent-seeking and serfdom-cultivating behaviors, though they are capitalists in their worker-hiring and capital-expansion behaviors. it's a chimera. whereas in that phrase, capitalism refers to the original scholar definition of capitalism, in which enforced competition, and rejection of monopolies/rents, promote progress, drive prices down, and promote the circulation of goods and money, while exploiting workers to extract surplus value.
those days are over. nowadays, top mislabeled capitalists are feudal lords, the petit bourgoises are hardly distinguishable from the proletariat and need to work to stand a chance of staying afloat among the big rent-seeking sharks (landlords, banks, larger competitors, and other rent-seeking monopolists), and labor is represented as about to become obsolete, so the dominant class won't even need workers to extract surplus value, I suppose they expect it's coming from rents instead.
it's only so much use to look at the power dynamics that were prevalent back when the dominant class needed workers. the solutions prescribed for that scenario don't necessarily apply to what we have today. the context changed, so the solutions may need to be changed as well.
I guess a lot of people much smarter than myself have also long arrived at this conclusion, and have been busy working out newer solutions. hopefully I'll run into them instead of having to figure it out by myself ;-)
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what I've found is that different people assign very different meanings to such loaded and heavily targeted by propaganda terms as capitalism, socialism, and communism. to my neurodivergent mind, that's very upsetting, so I set out to seek names to the different aspects I find people appreciating and criticizing
but there's more: one of the oldest tricks in the holy book of fooling people is overloading. capitalism started out as one set of concepts that a number of scholars wrote about, but what we're living in today isn't that any more. people who go to those books looking for enlightenment about capitalism are either going to find praise for something that no longer exists, or criticism that applies only to a small part of it
there's a recent name for remaking a service so as to extract value from it more efficiently, and people are fooled into thinking of it as still the same service. if it got a different name, they wouldn't remain as attached to it.
anyway, what I'm saying is that once capitalism entered the imperialistic phase, that was enshittification of capitalism. which is not to say that it wasn't already full of shit before, just that it got significantly worse.
that can be objectively measurable, as lenin presented, and it's such a departure that I no longer see it as capitalism with a twist, but as feudalism with capitalism practices. feudalism, originally, seems to have been mostly about sustaining rather than expanding. capitalism brought the notion of investing to expanding capital exponentially, that marx wrote about. fusing rent seeking through land control and serfdom with exponential expansion of capital yields imperialistic colonialism.
but these feudal lords that became dominant under this chimera still entice enterpreneurs with bait of riches that are no longer available, because we no longer live in that capitalism that scholars wrote about, it's multiple-times enshittified capitalism
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isso. não há um registro central. a rede é uma propriedade emergente.
em tempo: desculpe por usar X como nome do servidor; em tempos pós-twitter, isso pode ficar confuso :-)
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isso eu poderia fazer, mas não me traria os pôstes anteriores, aos quais você presumivelmente fazia referência
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I'm not attempting to equate them at all. what I'm trying to say is that even the good things that philosophers who wrote in support of capitalism wrote about have long been left behind, they're in a distant past. those good things were replaced by rent-seeking behaviors that economists consider key properties of feudalism, and that early capitalists fought tooth and nail. owning businesses without working on them is rent-seeking. pursuing monopolies has rent-seeking as its primary goal. colonization has been essentially about rent-seeking, with additional aspects of serfdom and land tenure. so I perceive these movements described by lenin as feudalism striking back and defeating capitalist dominance (capitalism as described by adam smith), and replacing it with a chimera of that capitalism and feudalism value extraction strategies. contemporary writings by @doctorow and by yanis varoufakis reinforce this understanding of mine about the workings of this monstrous chimera. what I'm not saying is that capitalism, even during the early days in which it fought rent-seeking, got entirely replaced. the exploitation of workers has remained, even if their work has now been redirected, from creating products for sale and extraction of the surplus, to creating bait to seek rent from others. workers, consumers, paying customers, competitors are all targets for rent seeking. that's a far cry from the rent-free market with regulated competition that early capitalism scholars wrote about.
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thanks. I think I'm done with the move; it may have been intense on the server. from now on my use is expected to be relatively light. please don't hesitate to reach out in case you find my use patterns make for problems on the server.
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it was never about what they meant
it was always about attacking good people by misrepresentation, and taking over or destroying their good deeds
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eu vinha ficando bem menos tolerante com barulho. até cooler de laptop estava ficando insuportável. depois que comecei reposição de vitaminas e minerais que tavam baixos, parece que reverteu
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exato, é esse tipo de software que está devorando a web
saudades do tempo em que eram dados declarativos, interpretados por programas à escolha do usuário
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eles não sabem que no hemisfério sul o vermelho e o azul giram no sentido oposto que no norte?
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não consigo, o servidor exige que eu deixe rodar programas sob controle dele no meu computador, e isso eu aprendi desde criança que não se faz
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basta ter alguém seguindo. é assim que as conexões vão se formando na rede. se não tiver ninguém do servidor X seguindo alguém do servidor Y, o servidor Y nem vai saber de X e não vai ter razão pra tentar mandar os pôstes pra lá.
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expresso 2222 me lembra uma paródia que eu quis mas não consegui fazer em 2022, durante a corrida eleitoral. seria a história de alguém que queria pegar o expresso 2222 pra voltar no tempo e avisar, e avisar :-) a galera sobre o desastre que tinha sido o governo que tentava reeleição. só que chegou lá, bem antes do ano 2000, e o celular não funcionava, na central do brasil ninguém tinha nem ouvido falar do monstro e bozo era só um palhaço. só tinha uma senhora que escrevia cartas à mão, mas ela cobrava, e ele só tinha reais, que ainda não existiam na época. fica o registro.
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@JorgeStolfi yeah, but that was not what required the time conversion ;-) gnusocial.net is shutting down, so I had to find a new fediverse home
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oh, almost forgot merry xmas! (OCT 31 = DEC 25)
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thank you for offering me a new GNU social home! that will probably help me learn Japanese faster :-) (but there's still a very long way to go)
Alexandre Oliva (moving to @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)
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